SUPPORTING STATEMENT: In 2023, we tabled a shareholder proposal requesting that the languages mastered by the directors of twenty or so public companies be disclosed. As a result of discussions, virtually all of these businesses — including the seven major banks — agreed to disclose this information. This new proposal is asking that the same information be disclosed for officers, at the very least “named executive officers.” 1 In recent years, several public controversies about language have tainted the reputation of major public companies with respect to their social responsibility and their interpretation of their duties and obligations with respect to the diversity inherent in our societies. Language is at the heart of our democratic institutions and is a fundamental attribute of the community. Such situations, harmful from every point of view, must be avoided. To this end — and for several other reasons — it is appropriate for all interested parties (stakeholders) to know, through a formal and official disclosure, the languages mastered by the Company’s officers. Obviously, by “mastered,” what is understood is a level of language sufficient to allow its generalized use in all spheres of activity of both legal and physical persons; a level of language sufficient to enable all officers to assume their duties and functions fully and completely with their teams, the shareholders and all parties.