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Galapagos – AGM 28 April 2020

Annual General Meeting

Items 5-6

 Concerning the remuneration policy and report, we have concerns about the lack of sufficient disclosure and the too high level of remuneration of the CEO.

 Item 9

ECGS does not support the re-election of the Statutory auditor if the audit firm has been in office for more than ten years. For this reason, we recommend to OPPOSE.

 Item 13

Concerning the offer of warrants, according to the opposition to remuneration policy and report, we recommend to OPPOSE.

 Extraordinary General Meeting

 Galapagos invites the shareholders of Galapagos NV to approve the introduction of a two-tier governance structure. ECGS has no concern about this decision.

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Galapagos NV

Galapagos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company specialized in the discovery and development of small molecule medicines with novel modes of action, addressing disease areas of high unmet medical need. Execution on its proprietary drug target discovery platform has delivered a pipeline that consists of three Phase 2, three Phase 1, five pre-clinical, and 20 discovery programs in inflammation, cystic fibrosis, or CF, osteoarthritis, and other indications. Co.'s highly flexible platform offers applicability across a broad set of therapeutic areas. Co.'s programs include filgotinib, GLPG1837, GLPG1690, GLPG2222, GLPG1972.

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