Annual Review 2012 - Luxottica

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ANNUAL REPORT 2012
the Italian Civil Code;
m) The company provided information, requested by articles 123 bis and 123 ter of the
Italian consolidated financial law (Testo Unico della Finanza) article 84 quater of Issuers
Regulation and both in the remuneration report and in the Corporate Governance
Report;
n) We are not aware of any events or complaints that should be mentioned to the
shareholders’ meeting;
o) With reference to the statement in article 36, paragraph 1 of the Markets regulation
(CONSOB resolution no. 16191 of 20 October 2007), we inform that on December 31,
2012 the provisions were applied to the subsidiary companies which the Company
indicated as significant with regard to the financial information control system: in this
respect it has to be stated that no omissions were noted;p) The Audit company
PricewaterhouseCoopers S.p.A., in charge of the audit from the Shareholders’ Meeting
held on April 28, 2011, together with the other companies belonging to its network,
were also appointed for the following activities, stated below with their respective
remuneration (in thousands of Euro), as additional job to the activities required by
the regulations for listed companies (audit of the statutory financial statements, the
consolidated financial statements, as well as the limited review of the half-year financial
statement and review of the regular keeping of company accounts during the fiscal
year):
Other audit services
(thousands of Euro)
PricewaterhouseCoopers S.p.A. Luxottica Group S.p.A. 420
Italian subsidiaries 0
Foreign subsidiaries 788
Taking in consideration the nature of these activities and related fees, that were
assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers S.p.A. and the companies within its network by
Luxottica Group S.p.A. and the other companies of the Group, there are no aspects
that give the Board of Statutory Auditors reason to doubt the independence of
PricewaterhouseCoopers S.p.A.;
q) During the 2012 fiscal year the Board of Auditors met ten times, the Board of Directors
met eight times and the Control and Risk Committee met eleven times.
Finally, we express our assent, within the limits of our responsibility, to the approval of
the financial statements together with the Management Report for the 2012 fiscal year as
presented by the Board of Directors, and to the consequent proposal, made by the Board
itself, for a net income distribution of 354 Millions Euro.
Milan, 5 April 2013
The Board of Statutory Auditors