A N N U A L R E P O R T - Bouygues

Challenger Express, intended for senior executives
and heads of department, and for the
magazine Le Minorange, published twice yearly,
which provide a real link between all the Group’s
employees.
It also supervises e.by and ebysa, the Bouygues
group and parent company intranet portals,
which provide online access to large amounts of
information and are used by Group and company
employees as a real working tool.
The Group’s internal communication department
also publishes Bouygues in Brief, a brochure containing
financial information which is circulated
externally as well as to managerial, technical and
administrative staff.
Group management meetings, which are attended
four times a year by the Group’s principal
managers and directors, also play an essential
role in internal communication, and help transmit
the Group’s culture and values. For general management
at Group level, they provide an important
channel for transmitting key information
and messages to the Group’s top executives.
External communication
The Group’s external communication department
reports directly to the Group’s Chairman and CEO,
and works in close cooperation with the operating
divisions for their mutual benefit.
Its main tasks are:
• to manage the Group’s image (press relations,
public relations, corporate sponsorship, etc.);
• to pass on information from external sources
to the Group’s general management and
executives.
Financial information
The Group’s cash management and finance
department is responsible for providing financial
information (relations with investors and financial
analysts) and is constantly in contact with
shareholders and analysts while providing the
market with the information it needs.
Great care is taken to prepare the Annual Report,
which the Group considers a major channel of
communication.
1.4.4 Steering
Internal control systems must themselves be
controlled by means of regular assessments.
Bouygues’ Accounts Committee is the main body
responsible for exercising such supervision.
Under the Board’s rules of procedure, one of the
tasks of the Accounts Committee is to “verify
internal procedures for gathering and monitoring
the information used to prepare the accounts”.
The Board has also asked Philippe Montagner, a
member of general management, to conduct a
comprehensive review of the major risks to which
the Group is exposed, including an assessment of
the extent to which the risks associated with the
Group’s various entities are taken into account.
Finally, the auditors also play an important role
in this regard, through their remarks or questions
in the context of their conventional audits
and the recommendations they may make to the
Accounts Committee.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors
2. SUPERVISION BY THE
AUDITORS
2.1. Statutory auditors
Mazars & Guérard (Mazars group), of 39, rue de
Wattignies, 75012 Paris, France, represented by
Michel Rosse, appointed as statutory auditors for
the first time at the Annual Meeting on 10 June
1998, and whose appointment was renewed for a
further six-year term by the Annual Meeting on
22 April 2004.
Mazars & Guérard are members of the Paris
regional association of auditors.
Ernst & Young Audit, of Faubourg de l’Arche, 11
allée de l’Arche, 92400 Courbevoie, France, represented
by Jean-Claude Lomberget, appointed as
statutory auditors for the first time at the Annual
Meeting on 24 April 2003, for a six-year term.
Ernst & Young Audit are members of the Versailles
regional association of auditors.
2.2. Alternate auditors
Thierry Colin (Mazars group), appointed as alternate
auditor for the first time at the Annual
Meeting on 25 May 2000, and whose appointment
was renewed for a further six-year term by the
Annual Meeting on 22 April 2004.
Christian Mouillon (Ernst & Young group), appointed
as alternate auditor for the first time at the
Annual Meeting on 24 April 2003, for the same
term of office as Ernst & Young Audit.
2.3. Fees of the statutory
auditors and of the members
of their networks paid by the
Group
The fees paid to each of the statutory auditors
and to the members of their network by Bouygues
and all fully consolidated Group companies are
shown in note 23 to the consolidated financial
statements (page 205 of this document).
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