Capital and shareholding

Total number of voting rights and shares

Information concerning the total number of voting rights and shares, provided pursuant to article L. 233-8 II of the Code de commerce (the French Commercial Code) and article 222-12-5 of the Règlement général de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Regulation of the French stock market authority)

• Total number of voting rights and shares in 2007
• Total number of voting rights and shares in 2006

Shareholding of sanofi-aventis as of May 31, 2007

Sanofi-aventis had share capital of €2,721,100,302 on May 31, 2007 split into 1,360,550,151 shares with a par value of 2 euros.

Shares (in %)

Shares	Percentage
* Employees	1.14 %
Treasury	0.63 %
L'Oréal	10.51 %
Total	13.12 %
Public	74.60 %

Voting rights (in %)

Shares	Percentage
* Employees	1.77 %
L'Oréal	17.26 %
Total	19.30 %
Public	61.67 %

* Shares held through the sanofi-aventis employee savings plans