ASSISTANCE
AND PROVISION OF SERVICES AGREEMENT
Public
Limited Company with share capital of €691,041,
Companies’ register no. 340 342 153
Hereinafter
referred to as “ The Microwave Vision Group
”
The
following two companies and five establishments:
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SATIMO
Industries SAS
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17, avenue de
Norvège
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91953
Courtaboeuf
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FRANCE
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- The
MVG establishments:
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SATIMO
USA
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SATIMO
Hong-Kong
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Via dei
Castelli Romani, 59
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2105 Barrett
Park Dr.,
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Suite 702, 7th floor Cyberport
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Suite 104
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100
Cyberport Road
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Kennesaw, GA
30144
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Pok Fu
Lam,
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USA
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HONG
KONG
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SATIMO
Sweden
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6-20-11
Shinbashi-IK Bldg. 1F
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Sofierogatan
3A
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412 51
Gothenburg
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SWEDEN
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Hereinafter
referred to as “ the subsidiaries ”
MVG
is a
company that directly holds the majority of the share capital of
the subsidiaries , thus forming an economic
group.
The
subsidiaries exercise activities in microwave imaging
including instrumentation, measurement and testing of
electromagnetic fields. There are subsidiaries that have no
commercial activity.
In order to
facilitate their operations and to ensure the cohesion of the
group, it has been decided that MVG will define the major
strategies and centralise the management and commercial functions
for all the subsidiaries. This centralisation, prepared during the
second half-year 2008, began on the first of
January 2009.
NOW
THEREFORE, THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
— Object of the agreement
This
agreement sets out the conditions under which MVG provides advice
and assistance to the subsidiaries, as part of their day-to-day
management or on the occasion of one-off operations.
Under the
terms of this work, MVG agrees to provide the subsidiaries with the
following services.
Article 2
— Services provided and areas of contribution
2.1 In the
day-to-day management of:
- General
management: drawing up
a strategy, relations with shareholders, definition and control of
the implementation of the companies’ development and external
growth policy, study, drafting and control of the introduction of
the industrial, commercial, legal and financial projects required
for developing, organising, managing and structuring of the
companies.
- Human
resources: selecting
and recruiting key personnel, encouraging mobility between
subsidiaries, managing the personnel policy, implementing the
motivation schemes, introducing tools for monitoring working hours,
advice for implementing group procedures regarding ethics, company
monitoring.
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Finances, accounting, taxation, management control:
supervising the accounting and financial services, coordinating
teams and choice of development tools, coordinating management and
budget control, cash-flow management, fiscal taxation,
etc.
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Purchasing : defining the purchasing policy, listing
suppliers, negotiating discounts and sales conditions, procurement
policy.
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Communications and marketing: drafting,
planning and implementation of marketing and internal and external
communication strategies and the introduction of related tools,
procedures and models, support for the development of products and
services.
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Sales: organising
and supervising the sales forces, managing the distribution
network, monitoring all of the subsidiaries’ opportunities,
drafting customer approach strategies by geographical zone and by
market in order to develop opportunities by using all of the
subsidiaries’ product portfolios.
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Software development: development, standards and quality
methods, developing a modules library accessible to all the
subsidiaries, selecting tools, platforms and equipment.
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Network: selecting
tools, platforms and equipment required for creating a network for
the subsidiaries and MVG, in order to facilitate and encourage
communication between the various subsidiaries and between the
subsidiaries and MVG, maintaining the infrastructure.
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Legal: legal operations and legal obligations.
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Trademark: right to use the “MICROWAVE VISION”
name.
2.2 As part
of one-off operations
MVG agrees
to provide the subsidiaries with advice and assistance as part of
one-off operations concerning them, such as, and without this list
being exhaustive: external growth operations, disposals,
restructuring, etc.
As part of
this work MVG undertakes to do everything possible to safeguard the
interests of the subsidiaries and ensure their businesses run
smoothly.
Notwithstanding
the assistance services that will be provided to the subsidiaries
by MVG, they will continue to assume full responsibility for their
operating results; therefore, MVG can in no case assume liability
for actions carried out by the subsidiaries
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Article 3 — Remuneration
The nature,
diversity and frequency of the services likely to be carried out by
virtue of this agreement are such that individual invoicing of the
services rendered by MVG will not be possible.
Therefore,
the parties agree that the provision of services rendered will be
paid under the following conditions:
3.1
Remuneration of the services provided for subsidiaries exercising a
commercial activity
In return
for the assistance services, advice provided, and centralised
management of the group, MVG will invoice these services on the
basis of the cost budgeted for the year for the entire expenditure
linked to the aforementioned services. The amount will be
distributed between each company and according to the gross margin
budgeted for at the start of the year for each company. To this
amount, a 5% (five percent) margin will be applied.
This
remuneration will be reviewed annually at the start of the year
based on the budget as approved by the board of
directors.
Invoices
will be sent by MVG to its subsidiaries quarterly in
advance.
Invoices
will be payable in cash by a deduction from a current account or by
bank transfer within sixty (60) days following receipt of the
invoice.
At the end
of each financial year, a credit or an invoicing adjustment will be
drawn up based on the gross margin realised and the expenditure
actually incurred. In the event there are significant differences
between realised and budgeted gross margins, the amount of
the final adjustment will be subject to review and approval by the
board of the companies . This credit or this additional
invoice will be determined in the three months after the closing
date for the end of the financial year.
MVG shall
use the fees acquired hereunder for its operations and shall
reinvest in the operating companies no less than 2/3 (two-thirds)
of the net income acquired thereby under this Agreement.
3.2
Remuneration of the services provided for subsidiaries without a
commercial activity.
In return
for the assistance services and advice provided, MVG will invoice
subsidiaries, which do not carry out any commercial activity a
fixed annual fee of twenty-five thousand euros (€25,000).
Invoices will be payable in cash by a deduction from a current
account or by bank transfer within sixty (60) days following
receipt of the invoice.
3.3
Remuneration for the right to use the name “MICROWAVE
VISION”
The right
to use the name “MICROWAVE VISION” will be subject to
separate invoicing , which shall be 1% (one percent) of the
gross sales of each company and establishment. Invoicing will be
drawn up according to the budgeted gross sales. In the event
there are significant differences between realised and budgeted
gross margins, the amount of the final image fee will be
subject to review and approval by the board of the
companies.
This
remuneration will be reviewed annually at the start of the year
based on the budget as approved of the board of
directors.
Invoices
will be sent by MVG to its subsidiaries quarterly in
advance.
Invoices
will be payable in cash by a deduction from a current account or by
bank transfer within sixty (60) days following receipt of the
invoice.
At the end
of each financial year, a credit or an invoicing adjustment will be
drawn up based on gross sales achieved. This credit or this
additional invoice will be determined in
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