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Protective Foundation

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2023

10.

Protective foundation

According to the Articles of Association of the Company, up to 110,000,000 ordinary shares and up to 110,000,000 preferred shares with a nominal value of €0.12 per share are authorized to be issued. All shares are registered shares. No share certificates shall be issued.

In order to deter acquisition bids, the Company`s shareholders approved the right of an independent foundation under Dutch law, or protective foundation, to exercise a call option on preferred shares. Pursuant to the call option agreement, the Company shall issue an amount of preferred shares to the protective foundation, amounting to up to 100% of the Company’s issued capital held by others than the protective foundation, minus one share. In order to exercise its right to such share issue, the protective foundation is expected to enter into a finance arrangement with a bank, or subject to applicable restrictions under Dutch law, the protective foundation may request the Company to provide, or cause the Company’s subsidiaries to provide, sufficient funding to the protective foundation to enable it to satisfy its payment obligation under the call option agreement.

These preferred shares will have both a liquidation and dividend preference over the Company`s ordinary shares and will accrue cash dividends at a pre-determined rate. The protective foundation would be expected to require us to cancel its preferred shares once the perceived threat to the Company and its stakeholders has been removed or sufficiently mitigated or neutralized. We believe that the call option does not represent a significant fair value based on a Level 3 valuation, since the preference shares are restricted in use and can be canceled by us.

During the six months ended June 30, 2023, the Company expensed €45 thousand (2022: €30 thousand) of ongoing costs to reimburse expenses incurred by the protective foundation.