Under the Euro Medium Term Note Programme ... - Finance - EDF

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
The following documents (in the French language only) which have previously been
published and/or have been approved by the AMF or filed with it (i) are hereby incorporated
by reference in, and form part of, this Base Prospectus, (ii) with the exception of the items
mentioned below as being excluded from this Base Prospectus: the 2011 Document de
Référence filed with the AMF under No. D.12-0321 on 10 April 2012 prepared by the Issuer
(hereafter the "2011 Document de Référence") which contains (a), inter alia, the audited
annual consolidated financial statements of the Issuer for the period ended 31 December
2011 as well as the related statutory auditors report and (b) which incorporates by reference
the annual consolidated financial statements of the Issuer for the periods ended 31
December 2009 and 2010 as well as the related statutory auditors' reports, with the full
exception of the following items (originally included in the 2011 Document de Référence),
which are hereby explicitly excluded from the scope of incorporation to this Base Prospectus:
• Chapter 1 of the 2011 Document de Référence relating to EDF
Chairman's declaration of responsibility regarding the content of the
2011 Document de Référence; and
• Chapter 13 of the 2011 Document de Référence relating to the
financial outlook announced for 2012;
The attention of international investors is drawn to the fact that the 2011 Document de
Référence filed with the AMF on 10 April 2012 under No. D.12-0321 includes (i) the statutory
auditors' special report on agreements involving members of the Board of Directors for the
financial year ended 31 December 2011 in Appendix C and (ii) the statutory auditors' report
prepared in accordance with article L.225-235 of the French commercial code in Appendix B.
Both of these reports correspond to French law specific requirements and are addressed to
EDF's shareholders only. In addition, the procedures and practices followed by the statutory
auditors in France in respect to such reports may differ from those generally accepted and
applied by auditors in other countries on issues that could appear to be similar as those
covered by such reports.
Attention is also drawn to the statutory auditors' report included in Section 20.2 of the 2011
Document de Référence. The statutory auditors' report includes for the information of the
reader explanatory paragraphs discussing their assessment of significant accounting matters
performed for purpose of issuing their audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements
taken as a whole as required under French law in any auditors' report, whether qualified or
not. Such report shall be construed in accordance with French law and French auditing
professional standards.
Any statement contained in this Base Prospectus or in a document which is incorporated by
reference herein shall only be modified or superseded for the purpose of this Base
Prospectus to the extent that it is modified or incorporated by a supplement prepared in
accordance with Article 16 of the Prospectus Directive.
For as long as the Programme remains in effect or any Notes are outstanding, copies of this
Base Prospectus, documents incorporated by reference in this Base Prospectus, any
supplement to this Base Prospectus and the Final Terms related to the Notes will be
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