Annual report 2001 - GL events

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Auditors‘ statement regarding
the reference document
As auditors of Générale Location accounts and in compliance with the regulation COB 98-01, we have examined the
financial and accounting information contained in this reference document and performed all the procedures that
we considered necessary, in accordance with professional standards in force in France.
This reference document has been established under the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and
as such we can testify to the fairness of the information it contains in relation with the financial situation and the
accounts.
In compliance with the professional standards applicable in France, our mission consisted of evaluating the fairness
of the information concerning the financial situation and the accounts, to verify their compliance with the accounts
included in the report. Our mission required from us to read the additional information contained in the reference
document, in order to identify if there may be possible significant discrepancies with the information concerning the
financial situation and the accounts, and to point out information openly erroneous which would have stricken us
based on our general knowledge of the company acquired within the framework of our mission. Since all provisional
data resulted from a structured development process of elaboration, this reading took into account the hypotheses
adopted by the directors and their translation into numbers.
We have audited the financial statements and the consolidated accounts for the years ended 31 December 1999,
2000 and 2001 decided by the Board of Directors, according to the professional standards applicable in France, and
certify to them without reserve or observation.
We have no comments to make concerning the fairness of the financial and accounting information presented in
this reference document.
Lyon, 12 June 2002
The Statutory Auditors
M. André Fluchaire M. Jean-Paul Simoëns
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Person in charge of the financial information
Erick ROSTAGNAT
Chief Financial Officer – Investor Relations
GENERALE LOCATION ; Route d’Irigny – 69530 BRIGNAIS
Tel. : 04 72 31 54 20 – Fax : 04 72 31 54 95
Web site : www.generale-location.com
e-mail : info@generale-location.fr