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INFORMATION ABOUT ANF
Reports and information for the Shareholders’ Meeting
6.8 Special reports from the Statutory Auditors
for submission to the Ordinary and Extraordinary
Shareholders’ Meeting of May 6, 2010
Statutory Auditors’ report, prepared in application of Article L. 225-235 of the French Commercial
Code, on the report by the Chairman of the ANF Supervisory Board
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2009
To the shareholders,
ANF
32, rue de Monceau
75008 Paris
Dear Shareholders,
In our capacity as Statutory Auditors of ANF and in accordance with Article L. 225-235 of the French Commercial Code, we hereby present
you with our report on the report by the Chairman of your Company, prepared pursuant to Article L. 225-68 of the French Commercial Code,
for the year ended December 31, 2009.
The Chairman is responsible for preparing and submitting for approval by the Supervisory Board a report on internal control and risk
management procedures implemented within the Company and providing the other information required by Articles L. 225-68 of the French
Commercial Code relating, in particular, to corporate governance.
We are responsible:
• for informing you of any observations we have made on the information contained in the Chairman’s report on internal control procedures
relating to the preparation and treatment of accounting and fi nancial information; and
• for certifying that the report includes the other information required by Article L. 225-68 of the French Commercial Code, on the understanding
that we are not responsible for checking the accuracy of this other information.
We have carried out our assignment in accordance with professional standards applicable in France.
Information on internal control procedures for the preparation and treatment of accounting
and fi nancial information
Professional standards require us to take all due diligence in order to determine that the information given in your Chairman’s report on internal
control and risk management procedures for the preparation and treatment of fi nancial and accounting information is true and fair. This due
diligence included, in particular:
• familiarising ourselves with internal control and risk management procedures for the preparation and treatment of accounting and fi nancial
information serving as the basis for the information presented in your Chairman’s report and in extant documentation;
• familiarising ourselves with the work serving as the basis for such reported information and extant documentation;
• determining whether or not any major defi ciencies in internal control of the preparation and treatment of accounting and fi nancial information
that we may discover during our investigations are fully disclosed in the Chairman’s report.
On the basis or our investigations, we have no particular observations to make concerning information on the Company’s internal control and
risk management procedures for the preparation and treatment of fi nancial and accounting information contained in the report by the Chairman
of the Supervisory Board, drawn up pursuant to Article L. 225-68 of the French Commercial Code.
Other information
We hereby certify that the report by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board includes the further information required by Article L. 225-68 of
the French Commercial Code.
ANF • 2009 ANNUAL REPORT
Neuilly-sur-Seine and Courbevoie, April 19, 2010
The Statutory Auditors
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PriceWaterHouseCoopers Audit Mazars
Gérard Hautefeuille Odile Coulaud
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