Econocom - 2020 annual report

08 statutory auditor’s report on the consolidated financial statements statutory auditor’s report to the general shareholders’ meeting on the consolidated accounts

Other legal and regulatory requirements

Responsibilities of the board of directors The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the directors’ report on the consolidatedaccounts, of the separate report on non-financial informationand the other informationincluded in theannual report on theconsolidated accounts. Statutory auditor’s responsibilities In the context of our mission and in accordance with the Belgian standard which is complementary to the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) as applicable in Belgium, our responsibility is to verify, in all material respects, the directors’ report on the consolidated accounts, the separate report on non-financial information, and the other information included in the annual report onthe consolidated accounts, andto reporton thesematters. Aspects related to the directors’ report on the consolidated accounts and to the other information included in the annual report on the consolidated accounts In our opinion, after havingperformedspecificproceduresin relationto the directors’ report on the consolidatedaccounts, this directors’ report is consistent with the consolidatedaccounts for the year under audit and is prepared in accordancewith article 3:32 of the Companies’and Associations’ Code. In the contextof our audit of the consolidatedaccounts,we are also responsiblefor considering, in particularbased on the knowledgeacquiredresultingfrom the audit, whether the directors’ report on the consolidatedaccountsand the other informationcontainedin the annual report on the consolidatedaccounts, namely chapters 1 to 4, 7 and 9 to 11, is materially misstated or containsinformationwhich is inadequatelydisclosedor otherwisemisleading.In light of the procedures we haveperformed,there arenomaterialmisstatements we haveto reportto you. The non-financial informationis included in a separate report of the directors’ report which is part of section 3 of the annual report. The report of non-financial information contains the informationrequiredby virtue of article 3:32, §2 of the Companies’and Associations’Code, and agrees with the consolidatedaccounts for the same year. The Companyhas preparedthe non-financial information, based on the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. However, in accordance with article 3:80, §1, 5° of the Companies’ and Associations’ Code, we do not expressan opinionas to whetherthe non-financialinformationhas beenpreparedin accordance with the principles of the United Nations Global Compact as disclosed in the separate report ofthe directors’ report.

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