SCH2017_DRF_EN_Livre.indb

8 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting Exhibits to the board of directors’ report

The terms of office of committee members shall coincide with their terms of office as members of the board of directors. The terms of office of committee members may be renewed. As a matter of good governance and to the exclusion of the Governance and remunerations committee chaired by the Vice- Chairman lead director, committee chairs should be rotated and not exceed four years for a given committee. The board of directors shall deliberate annually on the Chairmanship of the concerned committee whenever such four-year limit is reached or exceeded. 4. Committees shall meet on the initiative of their chairperson or on request from the Chairman of the board of directors or the CEO. 5. The Chairman serving as CEO or the CEO shall be kept informed of committee meetings. He/she shall be in regular contact with committee chairmen. 6. Committee meetings shall be held at the company’s registered offices or any other place decided upon by the chairperson of the committee with an agenda prepared by the latter. If necessary they may be held by audio or video conference. Members of the board of directors may attend meetings of committees of which they are not a member. Only the members of the committee shall take part in the committee’s discussions. A secretary will prepare the minutes of the meetings, which shall be recorded in an ad hoc register specific to each committee by the secretary of the board. A report on each committee’s activities shall be given by the committee’s chairperson or one of its members at the next Board meeting. Minutes of committee meetings shall be provided for the members of the board of directors. After referring the matter to the Chairman of the board, every committee may request studies from external consultants. Every committee may invite any person of its choice to its meetings, as and when required. 7. Other than the permanent specialist committees that it has created, the board of directors may also decide to set up any ad hoc committees for specific operations or assignments. Article 9 – The Audit and risks committee 1. Membership and operation of the Audit committee The committee shall be comprised of at least three members, two- thirds of whom must be independent members of the board of directors. At least one of the members must possess special skills concerning matters of finance and accountancy and be independent with regard to specified, published criteria. The Deputy CEO in charge of finance shall act as the Audit committee’s contact. The head of Internal Audit shall act as secretary to the Audit committee. The committee shall meet at least five times a year. The chairperson of the committee shall draw up agendas for meetings.

The meetings shall be attended by members of the Finance Department and of the company’s Internal Audit Department and, with respect to meetings devoted to examining accounts, by the statutory auditors. The committee may invite any person it wishes to hear to its meetings. It may also require the CEO to provide any documents it deems to be useful. Outside the presence of company representatives, the committee shall regularly hear the statutory auditors and the head of the Internal Audit. 2. The duties of the Audit committee The Audit Committee monitors questions on drawing up and controlling accounting and financial information. It prepares the board of directors’ decisions in these domains. It issues recommendations to the board for the purpose of ensuring the integrity of the financial information and gives advices. For this purpose: E it shall prepare for annual and half-yearly accounts to be approved by the board and therefore, more particularly: E checks the appropriateness and consistency of the accounting methods used for drawing up consolidated and corporate accounts, as well as checking that significant operations on Group level have been dealt with appropriately and that rules relating to the consolidation perimeter have been complied with, E examines off-balance-sheet risks and commitments as well as the cash situation, E examines the process for drawing up financial information; E it examines the draft annual report, which bears the status of registration document and contains the information on internal control, the draft half-yearly report and, where applicable, any remarks made by the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) concerning these reports, as well as the other key financial information documents; E it handles follow-up on legal control of annual and consolidated accounts made by statutory auditors, notably by examining the external audit plan and results of controls made by statutory auditors; E after a consultation process, it shall suggest reappointing the existing statutory auditors or appointing new statutory auditors; E it shall check the independence of statutory auditors, especially at the time of examining fees paid by the Group to their firm or their network, and by giving prior approval to any missions that are not strictly included in the scope of the statutory audit; E it monitors the efficiency of internal control and risk management systems. For this purpose: E it shall examine the organization and resources used for internal audit, as well as its annual work program. It shall receive summaries of reports produced on audits on a quarterly basis. However, the chairperson of the committee shall receive these reports in full, E the committee shall examine operational risk-mapping and make sure that measures exist for preventing or minimizing risks, E it shall examine how to optimize risk coverage on the basis of reports requested from internal audit, E it shall examine Group internal control measures and look into the results of entities’ self-assessments with respect to internal control. It shall ensure that a relevant process exists for identifying and processing incidents and anomalies,

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