•Specific individual types, e.g., assistants and secretaries only for the executive offices vs. Company Secretarial entirely,
•Proximity to decision-making within ArcelorMittal, e.g., geographical proximity, organizational hierarchy, or role proximity.
Compliance Officer is responsible to coordinate the heads of the selected departments in the review of the members in the permanent list on a periodic basis, ensuring the application of the defined criteria.
1.15.Investor Relations Employees: ArcelorMittal Employees working exclusively for Investor Relations and located in London (United Kingdom).
1.16.Investor Relations Non-Communication Period: the 7th Business Day after the end of the quarter up until (i) the publication of the quarterly figures or the six-monthly figures of ArcelorMittal or (ii) the announcement of an extraordinary dividend (whichever is later).
1.17.List of Permanent Insiders: has the meaning ascribed under items 8.2 and 8.3 below.
1.18.Market Manipulation:
(a)Transaction or placing orders to trade in ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments:
iwhich give, or are likely to give, false or misleading signals as to the supply of, demand for or price of ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments or any other financial instruments derived thereof, or which create actual or apparent trading in, or of raising the price of, any ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments, or
iiwhich maintain, or attempt to maintain, by a person or persons acting in collaboration the price of one or several financial instruments at an abnormal or artificial level, unless the person who entered into the transactions or issued the orders to trade establishes that his or her reasons for so doing are legitimate and that these transactions or orders to trade conform to accepted market practices on the regulated market concerned and to applicable law and regulations and the rules established by the Stock Market Authorities;
(b)Transaction or placing an order to trade or any other activity or behavior which affects or is likely to affect the price of ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments or any other financial instruments derived thereof which employ fictitious devices or any other form of deception or contrivance.
(c)Dissemination of information through the media (including internet), or by any other means, which gives, or is likely to give, false or misleading signals as to the supply of, demand for, or price of ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments or any other financial instruments derived thereof, or secures
or is likely to secure the price of one or more ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments at an abnormal or artificial level, including the dissemination of rumors where the person who made the dissemination knew, or ought to have known, that the information was false or misleading.
1.19.Stock Market Authorities: (i) The Dutch authority for the financial markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten or AFM), (ii) the French stock market authority for the financial markets (Autorité des Marchés Financiers or AMF); (iii) the Luxembourg stock market authority for the financial markets (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier or CSSF); (iv) the Spanish stock market authority for the financial markets (Comisión Nacional de Mercado de Valores or CNMV); (v) the United States of America Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC); (vi) the New York stock exchange (NYSE Group, Inc. or NYSE); or the regulator of any other relevant stock exchange.
1.20.Temporary Insider: Some internal projects contain specific inside information and thus, all project members automatically become temporary insiders that should be added to the temporary insider list for the duration of the project.
Group Compliance should be informed about the responsible project managers of all projects before the official project start. The project manager is then responsible to check before the onboarding of project members whether the project is material enough and contains relevant inside information based on the following criteria:
•Revenue and costs: The potential revenue expectation related to a project exceeds 2.5% of the Group revenue or the project costs are significant, or
•Impact on employees: The project has a significant effect on more than 5% of the workforce of the Group, or
•Reputational impact: The project is visible to the public and may affect ArcelorMittal’s reputation.
1.21.Transaction: The purchase or sale, or the attempt to purchase or sell, or any other legal act aimed at acquiring or disposing ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments (including cancelling or amending an order), directly or indirectly, for one’s own account or for the account of others.
2.General Insider Dealing Regulations
2.1.Every person subject to these Insider Dealing Regulations who holds Inside Information is strictly prohibited from engaging or attempting to engage in Transactions in ArcelorMittal Financial Instruments unless an exception to this prohibition applies, as set out in Section 6 of these Insider Dealing Regulations.
2.2.Every person subject to these Insider Dealing Regulations who holds Inside Information is strictly prohibited from communicating Inside Information to any person, recommending or