Exceeding such parameters should in principle preclude – unless there are specific circumstances, which should be examined in concrete terms – the non-executive director to whom they apply from possessing the requisites of independence provided for by the Self-Regulation Code; d) if he/she receives, or received in the previous three years, from the issuer or a subsidiary or Parent Company, significant compensation in addition to his/her fixed fee as a non-executive director of the issuer, including participation in an incentive plan tied to the company’s performance, including stock-option plans; e) if he/she has been a director of the issuer for more than nine of the last twelve years; f) if he/she is an executive director of another company in which an executive director of the issuer is a director; g) if he/she is a partner or director of a company or organization belonging to the network of the firm entrusted with the external audit of the issuer; h) if he/she is a close relative of a person who is in one of the situations referred to previously.