1. Every member who so requests at a general meeting shall be entitled to obtain information from the management or administrative organ on the affairs of the SCE arising from items on which the general meeting may take a decision in accordance with Article 61(1). In so far as possible, information shall be provided at the general meeting in question.

2. The management or administrative organ may refuse to supply such information only where:

 - it would be likely to be seriously prejudicial to the SCE,

 - its disclosure would be incompatible with a legal obligation of confidentiality.

3. A member refused information may require that his/her question and the grounds for refusal be entered in the minutes of the general meeting.

4. Within the 10 days preceding the general meeting required to decide on the end of the financial year, members may examine the balance sheet, the profit-and-loss account and the notes thereon, the management report, the conclusion of the audit of the accounts by the person responsible and, where a parent company within the meaning of Directive 83/349/EEC is concerned, the consolidated accounts.