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ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE AUDIT AND<br />

CONTROL COMMITTEE DURING THE 2011<br />

FINANCIAL YEAR<br />

‣ Review <strong>and</strong> analysis of the annual accounts <strong>and</strong> of the individual <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />

management reports of Amper, S.A. <strong>and</strong> its subsidiary companies.<br />

‣ Visits to the <strong>for</strong>eign subsidiary companies of the Group.<br />

‣ Monitoring the evolution of the activity of the business areas of the Amper Group.<br />

‣ Review of the accounting integration of the eL<strong>and</strong>ia subgroup in the consolidated<br />

financial statements of the Amper Group: verification of the proper delimitation of the<br />

scope of consolidation <strong>and</strong> the correct application of accounting principles.<br />

‣ Monitoring the SCIIF: review of all of the risks of an operational <strong>and</strong> accounting nature in<br />

all of the business units of the Amper Group in Spain.<br />

‣ Analysis of the financial management <strong>and</strong> of the Cash Flow of the Company.<br />

‣ Follow up to the complaints <strong>and</strong> allegations box.<br />

3.4 Review of the financial reporting<br />

In fulfilment of its supervisory function of the development process <strong>and</strong> integrity of the financial<br />

reporting of the Amper Group, the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee reviewed, prior to its <strong>for</strong>mulation<br />

by the Board of Directors, the Management Report <strong>and</strong> the Individual <strong>and</strong> <strong>Consolidated</strong> Annual<br />

Accounts <strong>for</strong> the 2011 financial year of Amper, S.A., <strong>and</strong> reported favourably regarding them<br />

<strong>and</strong> regarding the Annual Corporate Governance Report.<br />

In addition, the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee reviewed, prior to its approval by the Board of<br />

Directors, the quarterly periodic financial reporting to submit to the National Securities Market<br />

Commission corresponding to the 2011 financial year, verifying that the quarterly <strong>and</strong> semiannual<br />

financial statements were prepared under the same accounting principles as the annual<br />

accounts.<br />

3.5 Internal control <strong>and</strong> risk management systems<br />

The functions of the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee include the periodic review of the internal<br />

control <strong>and</strong> risk management systems.<br />

The Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee has monitored the Risk Map of the Group <strong>for</strong> the 2011<br />

financial year, ultimately monitoring the process of identifying risks of errors in the financial<br />

reporting of the Group during the 2011 financial year based on reports issued by the Internal<br />

Audit Department.<br />

During the 2011 financial year, <strong>and</strong> related to the adaptation <strong>and</strong> implementation of the Internal<br />

Control System of <strong>Financial</strong> reporting to the regulatory requirements (SCIIF), in accordance with<br />

the recommendations published by the CNMV in the "Expert Group Report regarding the<br />

internal control of the financial reporting in listed companies," the primary objective of the Audit<br />

<strong>and</strong> Control Committee has been to comply with these recommendations <strong>and</strong> begin its<br />

implementation in terms of the functions entrusted to the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee.<br />

During the 2011 financial year, the Board of Directors, <strong>and</strong> proposed by the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control<br />

Committee, approved the framework policy on which to base the internal control system<br />

regarding the <strong>Financial</strong> reporting ("Basic SCIIF Lines"). In developing the framework policy<br />

during the 2011 financial year, the Audit <strong>and</strong> Control Committee adopted a SCIIF monitoring<br />

policy in which the criteria <strong>for</strong> that the a<strong>for</strong>ementioned monitoring should follow is established,<br />

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23 March 2011

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