Interim / Quarterly Report • Sep 30, 2016
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Issue date: 30 June 2016
This report is available on the website www.tiscali.it
Tiscali S.p.A. Registered office: SS195 Km 2.3, Sa Illetta, Cagliari, Italy Share Capital €91,200,922.89 Cagliari Companies 'Register and VAT No. 02375280928 Econ. & Admin. Roster No. - 191784
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| 2 - Alternative performance indicators | |||
| 3 Directors and Auditors | |||
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| 4.1 4.2 Regulatory background 4.3 4.4 Significant events during the first half of 2016 4.5 - Analysis of the Group economic, equity and financial position 4.6 Assessment of the business as a going-concern and future outlook 4.7 Other events after the half-year end 4.8 Disputes, contingent liabilities and commitments |
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| 5 Consolidated financial statements and explanatory notes 5.1 5.2 Statement of Comprehensive Income Statement 5.3 5.4 5.5 Statement of changes in shareholders' equity 5.6 Income Statement pursuant to CONSOB Resolution no. 15519 of 27 July 2006 54 5.7 Balance Sheet in accordance with CONSOB Resolution no. 15519 of 27 July 2006. 55 5.8 Explanatory notes |
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| 6 Glossary | |||
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| Income statement (*) | 1st half of 2016 | 1st half of 2015 |
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| (EUR min) | ||
| Revenues | 101 9 | 103.8 |
| Adjusted Gross Operating Result (EBITDA) | 18.9 | 36.8 |
| Gross Operating Result (EBITDA) | 14 0) | 24.8 |
| Operating Result | (11.0) | 7.1 |
| Balance sheet | 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
| (EUR mln) | ||
| Total assets | 294 8 | 290.5 |
| Net Financial Debt | (165.5) | (165.6) |
| Net Financial Debt as per Consob | (172.6) | (173.1) |
| Shareholders' equity | (139.8) | (121.4) |
| Investments | 17.0 | 38.1 |
| Operating figures | 30 June 2016 | 30 June 2015 |
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| Total customers | 679.9 | 594.1 |
| of which: ADSL | 429.8 | 457 2 |
| of which: Fixed wireless (**) | 96.4 | |
| of which MOBILE (Voice and Data) (***) | 146,3 | 126.4 |
| of which OTHER | 7.4 | 10.5 |
(*) The economic figures as at 30 June 2016 are not comparable with the data as at 30 June 2015 as they include the economic figures of the Aria Group, which was integrated into the Tiscali Group on 31 December 2015.
(**) It should be noted that the "Fixed Wireless" customers does include, as at June 30th, 2016, a number of ex clients waiting for the reactivation, amounting to about 22,6 thousand units.
(***) Please note that the Company modified the criterion for determining the number of mobile customers (Voice and Data), in line with the criterion used by other telecommunications operators, including in the total number of Mobile customers the active and operating customers in the last 6 months, instead of the active and operating customers in the last month. Consequently, in order to be able to make a comparison with the 2015 figures, the number of Mobile customers (Voice and Data) at 30 June 2015 has been re-determined using the new criterion, passing from 107, 1 thousand units (figures published as at 30 June 2015) to 126,4 thousand units (redetermined figure at the same date).
In this report on operations, in addition to the conventional indicators envisaged by the IFRS, a number of alternative performance indicators are present (EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA) used by Tiscali Group management for monitoring and assessing the operational performance of the same and given they have not been identified as an accounting measure within the sphere of the IFRS, must not be considered as alternative measures for the assessment of the performance of the Tiscali Group's result. Since the composition of the EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is not regulated by the reference accounting standards, the calculation criteria applied by the Tiscali Group might not be the same as that adopted by others and therefore may not be comparable.
About these indicators, on December 3, 2015 Consob issued the communication n.92543 / 15 which refers to the Guidelines issued on October 5, 2015 by the European Securities and Market Authority about their presentation in the regulated information or the prospectus published starting from July 3, 2016. These regulations, which update the previous CESR recommendation (CESR / 05 -178b), are to promote the usefulness and transparency of alternative performance indicators included in the regulated information or statements within the scope Directive 2003/71 / EC in order to improve the comparability, reliability and comprehensibility.
Below, in line with the above communications, are shown the criteria used to calculate these indicators.
The Gross Operating Result (EBITDA) and the operating result before the write-down of receivables (Adjusted EBITDA) are economic performance indicators not defined by reference accounting standards and are formed as indicated below:
Gross Operating Result (Adjusted EBITDA)
Chairman: Alexander Okun (4) (5) (6)
Konstantin Yanakov (2) Nikolay Katorzhnov (2) (4) (5) Paola De Martini (*) (1) (2) (3) Anna Belova (*) (1) (2) (3) (5) Franco Grimaldi (*) (1) (2) (3) Renato Soru (4) (5) Alice Soru
(*) Independent directors (1) Control and Risks Committee (2) Appointments and Remuneration Committee
(3) Related Party Transactions Committee
(4) Investments Committee
(5) Extraordinary Financial Transactions Committee
(6) Appointed Chairman by resolution of the Board of Directors of 22 July 2016
Chairman Paolo Tamponi
Emilio Abruzzese Valeria Calabi
Federica Solazzi Badioli Augusto Valchera
Executive in charge of drafting the corporate financial documents Pasquale Lionetti
Ernst & Young S.p.A.
Interim report on operations
Tiscali S.p.A. (hereinatter also "Tiscali", the "Company "and, jointly with its subsidiaries the "Group" or the "Tiscali Group") is one of the leading alternative telecommunications operators in Italy offering a wide range of services to its private and business customers: internet access in Fixed Braodband and Broadband Fixed Wireless mode, Voice, VolP, media, added-value services, mobile telephone services, communication services and Over the Top services (hereinafter also "OTT").
In addition, Tiscali is active in the digital media and on-line advertising segment via:
With regards to the evolution of the broadband access from fixed network market, Tiscali's main market, in March 2016 (source: AGCOM, latest update available) broadband accesses in Italy have reached 15.1 million units, with an increase of around 580 thousand accesses since March 2015. This increase is particularly driven by broadband accesses developed using alternative technologies to traditional ADSL (Bitstream NGA, BroadBand Fixed Wireless, etc.), which in March 2016 reached around 2.4 million accesses, up by 930 thousand accesses since March 2015. Generally, a growing demand for bandwidth is being observed from users, in line with the evolution of applications.
In the last twelve months, the Tiscali Group has implemented a range of actions in line with the development of the broadband market as described above:
On the fixed network broadband market, Tiscali maintains an essentially stable position, thanks to the integrated voice and data offers. In March 2016 (the latest statistics available), Tiscali's market share, including BroadBand Fixed Wireless customers acquired thanks to the merger with Aria, stood at 3.6%.
The market basically continues to be covered by the long-standing operators (Telecom Italia, Wind, Fastweb and Vodafone), which in March 2016, retained stable market shares on last year (a slight loss of share is recorded by Telecom Italia to the benefit of Fastweb, Vodafone and other minor alternative operators), which compete on the market applying different pricing strategies, communication and added-value services.
Dual-play offers (which bundle together internet connectivity and voice services in a single package) are confirmed as the most popular commercial proposal amongst consumer and business users.
As regards mobile services, the Italian market has remained basically stable in terms of the total number of customers (96.8 million in March 2016 as compared with 97.1 million in March 2015 - source AGCOM). The number of mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers grows, however, to the detriment of mobile network owners (MNOs).
On the mobile market, on which it operates as an MVNO, in June 2016, Tiscali recorded a strong performance, thanks to a competitive voice-sms and data range, with an increase of around 16% in the number of operating SIMs at end June 2016 with respect to the corresponding period in 2015.
The exponential growth of data traffic on mobile networks also continues on the market, up by around 53% in March 2016 with respect to the corresponding period of the previous year, driven by the increasing use of 3G/4G Wi-Fi smartphones, tablets and modems, as well as by the ever greater development of mobile applications, both by on-line media and businesses.
The on-line advertising market recorded a negative overall result in H1 2016 (-1.9%) due to the fact that growth was only recorded in the mobile device sector (according to data recorded by FCP: 229 million in H1 2016 as compared with 234 million at 1 September 2015 of the total market).
In the mobile on-line advertising sector, growth came to +128%, which, however, in absolute value accounts for 9% of the total market and only partially made up for the decline in income from the traditional fixed network web segment.
Mobile advertising remains the main future growth driver, still under-valued today in view of the now prevalent importance of the audience generated through the use of mobile devices as compared with traditional PCs (Audiweb June 2016: 18.4 million single mobile users on an average day, as compared with 10.9 million single PC users, again on an average day).
The macro-economic indicators are still conflicting and underlie the comprehensive result recorded by the market during H1 2016.
The long-term view remains, however, confirmed, with growth forecast over the coming years, particularly thanks to the growth expected for the mobile advertising and video advertising segments.
Tiscali also integrates its digital strategy through the monitoring of innovation and the development of digital Over The Top applications such as Istella (proprietary search engine), Indoona (integrated personal unified messaging system) and Streamago (live video streaming application integrated into the main social areas of the web). The development of these products and services sees Tiscali as an operator that has always focused on innovation put to the service of its customers, and a market player able to supply a complete range that supplements access products with digital and web-based services.
During FY 2015, the Tiscali Group carried out a business merger with the Aria Group, finalised on 24 December 2015. This merger is extremely important in terms of business and may have significant impacts on the future development strategies to be pursued by the Tiscali Group.
Thanks to the merger with the Aria Group, the Tiscali Group has extended its portfolio of industrial assets, in particular acquiring the licence on 40MHz of spectrum over a "technology neutral "frequency of 3.5Ghz and the proprietary Fixed Wireless access network owned by Aria. In aggregating Aria's assets, today Tiscali is one of only a handful of national operators to boast a proprietary End-End network infrastructure (Transmission network + Access Network), an essential asset to operate successfully on the telecommunications market and thanks to which the competitiveness of its ranges and overall profitability can be increased. Through this proprietary network infrastructure; Tiscali will be launching the new UltraBroadBand Fixed Wireless LTE services (with speeds of up to 50Mbps), which significantly add to its offer portfolio in connectivity services, extending its market to now include areas that were not previously covered, such as the Digital Divide areas.
The merger with Aria also gives Tiscali the option of migrating a portion of Tiscali customers today served by the rental of the Telecom Italia access network in Bitstream mode (characterised by low profits and high costs to be paid to Telecom Italia for the rental of the access network) to its own proprietary Fixed Wireless access network. Already today, around 20% of Tiscall's Bitstream customers are covered by Aria's current Fixed Wireless network and this percentage will grow further in the future, thanks to the focus of the new cover offered by the LTE BroadBand Fixed Wireless services in areas of greater density of Tiscali Bitstream customers too, as well as in areas where the quality of current ADSL services is particularly poor or even lacking entirely. This operation will enable a further increase in comprehensive corporate profitability.
Finally, prospectively, Tiscali now looks at the option of launching a convergent fixed-mobile Ultrabroadband product on the market, which would allow for the management on its proprietary Tiscali network of Mobile Data services integrated with BroadBand Fixed Wireless services in areas covered by the LTE network on a frequency of 3.5GHz;
During the first half of 2016, the operative integration with Aria was completed and all activities started, as aimed at ensuring the launch of Tiscali-branded LTE UltraBroadBand Fixed Wireless services; this then took place in September with the installation of the first Huawei technology LTE antennas.
During the first half of 2016, the Company continued its activities for the development of Over The Top products/services:
Indoona:
In February 2016, "Indoona Open Platform", the first ever development platform that allows people, applications, services and smart objects to connect and dialogue through chat, has been enriched with Indoona Follow Me, the word press plug-in available to bloggers and users. Thanks to Indoona Follow Me, bloggers can connect their blog to Indoona Open Platform and thus reach users who, in turn, can remain connected at all times with their favourite blog. Indoona opens its platform to collaborate with bloggers in order to develop greater interaction and communication between people and services.
As from 3 May 2016, the Indoona platform also introduced the possibility of enjoying real-time dialogue, in all world languages, through chat. The "applications "screen, in fact, now gives the option of finding the Translator, a system of automated personal interpreters that translate the messages of chat users in the interlocutor's language, in real time.
As at 30 June 2016, Indoona boasted 2.5 million downloads with respect to the 2.4 million downloads recorded at 30 June 2015. The net book value as at 30 June 2016 referred to Indoona capex is amounting to EUR 0.4 million. At the current state of play, revenues generated by the service are not significant;
· Istella: is a search engine for the Italian web, created with the objective of arranging and spreading Italian cultural heritage, among other aspects. total of more than 7 billion pages, 130 million videos and 300 terabytes of data have been indexed to-date. It differs from other search engines since all the users can add to the database by sharing files, documents, photos, images, videos and audio. Istella was launched on the market in 2013.
The net book value as at 30 June 2016 referred to Istella capex is amounting to EUR 3.2 million. At the current state of play, revenues generated by the service are not significant.
· Streamago: is a platform which enables live streaming and broadcast recording vis-à-vis any fixed device (PC and MAC) or mobile device. The net book value as at 30 June 2016 referred to Streamago capex is amounting to EUR 1 million. During the first half of 2016, the revenues from Streamago amounted to EUR 134 thousand.
The main areas subject to regulatory intervention in the first half of 2016 are summarised below.
With the closure of the new fixed network wholesale access market analysis cycle, valid for the period 2015-2017, AGCOM defined, for the three years concerned, rules and standardised prices throughout national territory at which competitor operators can access the Telecom Italia copper and fibre network (Resolution No. 623/15/CONS).
Following approval of the above resolution, the Authority launched a series of provisions and consultations with a view to implementing the measures adopted with the market analysis. More specifically:
concerning the update of the replicability test methodology.
With this resolution, sector operators are given the chance to evaluate and modify the current replicability method, which uses a test based on the actual costs of the various systems solutions on a wholesale level (referred to as a "production mix"), in favour of new test models based on the costs of the SMP operator or on the costs of a "reasonably " efficient generic operator.
The resolution particularly proposes a major revision of the deactivation contribution for unbundling access services (ULL), introducing a breakdown into three different cases, which envisage different one-off contributions, all of a smaller amount than the previous single contribution. A contribution has also been introduced for donating, in the event of migration.
The principles that will be approved in this procedure, as regards the activities behind the activation and deactivation of services, will also be extended to include the other TIM Wholesale offers (e.g. Bitstream), resulting in a reduction in the relevant contributions.
The KPI-nd are those that enable the measurement of performance and equal treatment of services supplied to alternative operators, both for copper and fibre in relation to: }) the order process; ii) the supply of the service; iii) the quality of the service, including failures; ii) fallure repair times; v) migration between different regulated wholesale services.
The evolution of the electronic communication networks leads to technological models that are functional to the supply of ultrabroadband services to the end customer: in light of this, the Authority has launched a procedure aimed at obtaining specific assessments from the parties concerned of: procedural aspects of switch-off relating to the interaction between Telecom Italia and the OAOs (definition of technological migration processes, timing, cost analysis).
In April 2016, the Authority launched a public consultation 42/16/CIR) for the approval of the reference offers of Telecom Italia relative to the bitstream access services on copper network and in fibre optic for the years 2015 and 2016. The document submitted for consultation indicates the guidelines regarding the economic conditions of those services that, under the scope of the analysis of the access markets pursuant to Resolution No. 623/15/CONS are subject to guiding the cost (oneoff contributions, bandwidth - ATM and Ethernet - and accessory services).
The relevant points discussed include the reduction of bandwidth fees: a reduction in the fees for the ATM bandwidth is proposed and more markedly those for ETH, on the basis of the regulatory accounts submitted by TIM and occupation of the network, which follows the decreasing trend seen in previous years.
The Authority also has power of intervention regarding use of the radio spectrum for the electronic communications systems with the aim of facilitating the development of broadband and ultrabroadband services.
Significant activities in this area include, late 2015, the adoption 659/15/CONS, which establishes "Procedures and rules for the assignment and use of available frequencies in the 3,600-3,800 MHz band for ground-based electronic communications systems "
The provision identifies different batches of assignment according to the geographic areas, with the aim of reducing the digital divide in broadband, in less dense areas that are less serviced in the country and is an important innovation that, in the near future, should open up some very interesting scenarios for both fixed wireless and Lte-Advanced applications.
The tender is expected to be called by the Ministry of Economic Development this coming autumn.
By resolution 120/16/CONS, AGCOM approved the investigation regarding the guidelines for wholesale access to ultrabroadband networks receiving public contributions.
Under the scope of the Italian Ultrabroadband Strategy, the guidelines define exactly which wholesale access services the beneficiary must supply and the most appropriate pricing criteria to foster the development of new infrastructures in market failure areas receiving public contributions.
By resolution 121/16/CONS, AGCOM, the first European regulator to launch a systematic verification on the matter, started the public consultation aimed at obtaining comments, information and documentation on the possible introduction of "Licensed Shared Access" (LSA) type spectrum shared access mechanisms for ground-based electronic communication systems, also in order to verify the degree of market interest and to identify possible scenarios of application.
In a context where resources are scarce, where most of the useful radio spectrum is already used, it is important to take a new approach for the assignment and efficient use of frequencies: of the many solutions considered, that of Licensed Shared Access (LSA) would currently appear to be one of the most promising as it allows the telecommunications operators to optimise use of frequency resources that are not fully used.
Under the scope of the procedure relativing to the merger of Wind and H3G Italia, the DG Competition of the European Commission asked alternative operators, through a questionnaire, to provide information on the possible impact that the merger may have on the mobile telephony services and the outcome in terms of competition.
On this occasion, Tiscali has called for a regulation of the conditions upon which the relations (currently on a commercial basis) between mobile operators with significant market power (MNOs) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO / ESP) are based, through measures to ensure that the last ones be able to operate in a context of real competition.
Following a thorough investigation, the EU Commission gave the green light to the merger, considering that the corrective structural measures proposed by the two actors, consisting of the transfer of assets to the French telecommunications company Iliad, would provide sufficient guarantees in terms of competition because it will allow it to present itself on the Italian market as a new mobile network infrastructured operator.
In particular, the main corrective measures are: the transfer to the new operator of a given quantity of the mobile spectrum of the joint venture deriving from different frequency bands; transfer / co-location of several thousand sites for base mobile stations from the joint venture to the new operator, and finally, a transitional arrangement (for access to 2G, 3G and to new technologies) that allows the new entrant to use the network of the joint venture to offer mobile services to customers nationwide until he has not made up its own network. In essence, these measures will enable the entrant fo present itself as the infrastructured fourth mobile operator (MNO) in Italy.
In March 2016, the European Commission published a preliminary analysis of the answers received in response to the public consultation launched on the matter of the Digital Single Market, from September to December 2015.
A great many matters were discussed in the consultation, ranging from IT security to the optimisation of e-commerce; the interoperability of networks and technologies through to the development of ultrabroadband and the entrance and affirmation on the digital market and, more generally, the electronic communication market, of new subjects like the Over the TOPs (OTTs).
The preliminary analysis of contributions sent, made public by the EC, already shows some dominant trends: connectivity is extensively recognised as the driving force of the company and the digital
economy and "good connectivity" is considered a necessary condition to the Digital Single Market.
Once the consultation phase is over, the Commission will examine the details of the contributions received and on this basis will prepare the definitive proposal for the legislative intervention expected by end 2016.
The notice of tender called by Infratel is worthy of note, for the development and management of an ultrabroadband infrastructure in (total or partial) market failure in six different regions of Italy: Abruzzo, Molise, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Tuscany and Veneto.
The award criterion will be that of the economically most advantageous in terms of value for money.
The Authority has recently adopted resolution 252/16/CONS containing new rules on pricing transparency upon completion of the procedure launched with a specific public consultation early 2015.
The aim of the provision is to foster a greater awareness in the choice of tariff plans by consumers according to their consumer profiles. The most important new features include the development of a specific "calculation engine" - managed by an independent subject under the control of AGCOM which will be released in the next few months and which will enable a comparison of current offers on the basis of the service price criterion, considering the geographic location and consumption habits of the consumer.
The resolution approved by the Authority also envisages an extension to the protection relative to pricing transparency in favour of users who have stipulated a contract for adhesion, through the publication on a dedicated page of its website, of prospectuses describing the offers available, using a "standard "informative model chosen by AGCOM.
Tiscali shares have been listed on the Italian stock market (Milan: TIS) since October 1999. At 30 June 2016, market capitalisation came to roughly EUR 134,932,593, calculated on the value of EUR 0.0429 per share as at that date.
At 30 June 2016, the number of shares representing the Group's share capital amounted to 3,145,281,893.
Tiscali's shareholder base at 30 June 2016 is illustrated below.

Source: Tiscali
(*) Directly for around 8.87% and, indirectly through the investee companies Monteverdi S.r.I (0.56%) and Cuccureddus S.r.I (1.05%).
(**) Indirectly through the investee company Powerboom Investments Limited.
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| No. of shares | As % of share capital | |||
| Ordinary shares | 3.145.281.893 Дривнимания в сфермантия при привати в при вес приведения (выстрании) и с 19 (118) (118.11.18.11.18.11.18.11.18.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11.10.11 |
Here below you can find a table summarizing the stock option plans (showing the number of options and the exercise price for each tranche) and the convertible bonds (number of underlying shares and the exercise price).
For more information about the stock option plans, please refer to the "Stock Option" note.
| STOCK OPTION PLAN beneficiary: R Soru | ||||
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| Nº options | Strike Price | |||
| 1 Tranche | 157.264.095 | 0,0600 | ||
| 2 Tranche | 47.179.228 | |||
| ్ర Tranche |
47.179.228 | 0.0780 | ||
| STOCK OPTION PLAN - beneficiaries: AD & management | ||||
| Nº options | Strike Price | |||
| 1 Tranche | 188.716.915 | 0,0700 | ||
| 2 Tranche | 62.905.637 | 0,0886 | ||
| Tranche ಗೆ, |
62.905.637 | |||
| 314.528.189 | ||||
| Convertible and Converting Bond | ||||
| conversion shares | Strike Price | |||
| n. shares | 308.333.333 | 0,0600 |
For further information on the convertible and converting bond, please see Note 4.7
The graph below illustrates Tiscali's share trend during the first half of 2016, characterised by sustained trading volumes, particularly in March and April.

The average monthly price in H1 2016 stood at EUR 0.050. The maximum price of EUR 0.057 for the period was recorded on 25 April 2016, and the minimum of EUR 0.038 on 11 February 2016.
Trading volumes stood at a daily average of about 7 million items, with a daily average trade value of around EUR 0.05 million.
| Average Tiscali stock trading on the Italian Stock Exchange in the first half of 2016 | |||
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| Price (EUR) | No. of shares | ||
| January | 0.050 | 6,658,129 | |
| February | 0.046 | 8.979.075 | |
| March | 0.054 | 7,767,733 | |
| April | 0.054 | 9,004,304 | |
| May | 0.052 | 4,759,822 | |
| June | 0.046 | 4,855,693 | |
| Average | 0.050 | 7,004,126 |
On 15 January 2016, the Company's Board of Directors and the Remuneration Committee approved the Stock Option plan thereafter submitted to the Shareholders' meeting on 16 February 2016. The plan envisaged the proposed increase of the share capital in exchange for payment, in a divisible fashion, by means of the issue of up to 251,622,551 ordinary shares with no face value, at the service of up to 251,622,551 options valid for the subscription of ordinary shares in the Company, reserved to the Chairman Renato Soru as beneficiary of the 2015-2029 Stock Option Plan. The options assigned will be able to be exercised in three tranches, starting 24 December 2016 and until 24 June 2019.
The Ordinary shareholders' meeting resolved on the following agenda:
As regards the Rigensis Loan and the Stock Option Plan, the Extraordinary shareholders' meeting resolved as follows:
On 19 February 2016 Luca Scano ceased his employment as General Manager of Tiscali Italia SpA and left all positions held in Group companies. Scano's leaving occurred at the completion of the important merger process by incorporation of Aria Italy into Tiscali.
On 24 February 2016, Tiscali and the Italian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies, a global leader in ICT solutions, signed a memorandum, not binding on the parties, aimed at creating a technological partnership aimed at the development of an ultra-broadband network in Italy.
The agreement document (non-binding term sheet) was signed in Barcelona by Riccardo Ruggiero, CEO of Tiscali SpA, and Edward Chan, CEO of Huawei, at the "Mobile World Congress 2016".
This preliminary agreement was transformed in September into the signing of a multi-year framework agreement for the supply of network devices that ratifies the technological and commercial alliance between the two operators and which signal the start of the development by Tiscali of a LTE 4.5G Fixed Wireless proprietary access network on a frequency of 3.5GHz.Thanks to this network Tiscali will provide ultra-broadband services with a capacity up to 100Mbps across the whole of the national territory with the Tiscali brand, with particular focus on the areas in digital divide, contributing in this manner to accelerating the development of ultra-broadband Italy. The framework contract provides the possibility of making investments for EUR 40 million thus contributing to covering Tiscall's LTE investment needs.
On 25 March 2016, Tiscali S.p.A.'s Board of Directors examined and approved the Draft Financial Statement for the 2015 financial year, the new 2016-2021 Industrial Plan and took note of the receipt of two Comfort Letters from two primary Italian banks for a possible refinancing operation of the current Senior debt.
On 28 April 2016, the Shareholders' Meeting of Tiscali, held in Cagliari in a single call, approved all the points on the Agenda:
· adopted a resolution pursuant to Art. 2446 of the Civil Code with consequent amendment of Article 5 of the Articles of Association for the full coverage of the accumulated losses as at 31 December 2015, equal to EUR 77,875,899.78 by means of writing down the share capital for the same amount and consequent reduction of the same from EUR 169,076,822.67to EUR 91,200,922.90.
The resolution to refinance the Group's senior financial debt was also approved by the credit committee of Banca Intesa San Paolo.
Tiscali S.p.A.'s Board of Directors held on 12 May 2016:
* Approved the Stock Option Plan 2016 -2021 regarding Tiscali S.p.A. ordinary shares reserved for the Group's Chief Executive Officer and management. Related and consequent approvals. The Board has, therefore, approved the proposal for a divisible Capital Increase by issuing an
overall maximum of 314,528,189 ordinary shares without par value, to service a maximum of 314,528,189 valid options for the subscription of ordinary shares in the company to be reserved for the Group's Chief Executive Office and management as beneficiaries of the Stock Option Plan 2016 - 2021 referred to in the preceding item on the agenda, with the exclusion of the option right, pursuant to art. 2441 paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Civil Code. The consequent amendment of art. 5 of the Articles of Association, related and consequent resolutions and delegation of powers;
On 20 May 2016, the Company signed the Solidarity Contract of "Defensive" type with the workers, represented by the SLC-CGIL, FISTel-CISL, UGL TLC and UILCOM-UIL trade union organisations. The agreement, as reason for the intervention of the CIGS (Special Redundancy Fund) pursuant to Legislative Decree 148/2015, has as its objective the containment of costs aimed at confronting the situation of economic difficulty determined by the prolonged situation of the market and the growing competitiveness of the solidarity contract shall have a term of 18 months with effect from 1 July 2016 and shall result in a reduction of working time of 15%.
On 24 May 2016, Tiscali signed with Consip SpA the framework contract for the assignment of the connectivity services of the Public Administration within the Public Connectivity System (PCS). The award occurred on the basis of the best-weighted total, of an offer which has proven to be the most advantageous and which has successfully passed all the checks with economic and technical congruity. The contract is a "multi-supplier" framework agreement for the provision of services for the transportation of data in IP protocol, network security services and VoIP communication services over the whole national territory for a total term of 7 years. As established by the tender rules, the share held by Tiscali in the capacity of successful company, is equal to 60% of the total value of the order.
On 16 June 2016 the Shareholders' Meeting of Tiscali, held in a single call approved all the points on the Agenda. In particular:
* Approved the Stock Option Plan 2016 - 21 regarding Tiscali S.p.A. ordinary shares reserved for the Group's Chief Executive Officer and management;
■ Approved the divisible capital increase by issuing an overall maximum of 314,528,189 ordinary shares without par value, to service a maximum of 314,528,189 valid options for the subscription of ordinary shares in the company to be reserved for the Group's Chief Executive Officer and management as beneficiaries of the Stock Option Plan 2016 - 21 referred to in item 1 on the agenda, with the exclusion of the option right, pursuant to art. 2441 paragraphs
5 and 6 of the Civil Code. Consequently, Art. 5 of the Articles of Association relative to the Company's capital has been amended.
On 28 June 2016 the Tiscali Group, following positive opinion expressed by the Related Parties Committee, defined with Dr. Renato Soru the terms and conditions of termination of the executive positions covered by him with various Group companies.
On 29 June 2016, the Tiscali Group signed a refinancing agreement with Intesa San Paolo and BPM having as its object the Groups medium and long-term senior debt.
The new financing of EUR 88 million, of which EUR 53 million with Intess San Paolo and EUR 35 million with Banca Popolare di Milano, allows the full repayment of the current senior debt deriving from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA) and held by Banca Intesa and some Hedge Funds, restructured in 2014 and due in September 2017.
The principal characteristics of the new financing are:
Founded in 1998, Tiscali is one the leading alternative telecommunications operators in Italy,
Thanks to a cutting-edge network based on IP technology, Tiscali provides its customers with a wide range of services, from broadband and narrowband internet access, together with more specific and hi-tech products. This offer also includes voice services (VOIP and CPS), and portal and mobile telephone services, thanks to the service supply agreement reached with Telecom Italia Mobile (MVNO).
The Group offers its products to consumer and business customers on the Italian Market, mainly via five business lines:
The Group's economic, equity and financial position is affected by several factors, which constitute the macro-economic scenario - such as, for example, variations in GDP (Gross Domestic Product), investor confidence in the economic system and interest-rate trends. The progressive weakening of the economic system, together with a reduction in household disposable income, has cut the general level of consumption, with a depressive impact on the capacity for a quick recovery.
The activities, strategies and prospects of the Tiscali Group are influenced by the related macroeconomic context and as a result, this also affects the Group's economic, equity and financial position.
The Tiscali Group as well as the Aria Group both operate in the market for telecommunication services, characterised by high competitiveness.
With respect to the two main markets in which Tiscali operates it should be noted that on the basis of the AGCOM analyses for March 2016 Tiscali's market share in the broadband Internet-access sector, considering also the contribution of the Fixed Wireless Broadband client acquired following the merger with Aria is about 3.6%, while in the mobile virtual operator (MVNO) sector, Tiscali's share of the market is not significant.
Tiscall's main competitors are Internet Service Providers owned or controlled by national telecommunications operators, which held the monopoly over telecommunications services before the liberalisation of the sector (so-called Incumbent). These competitors possess a strong brand awareness in their own counties, a consolidated customer base and high levels of financial resources, which permit them to make huge investments in the research sector aimed at the development of technologies and services.
Besides telecommunications operators, which may use new access technology, Tiscali also competes with suppliers of other services, such as satellite television, terrestrial digital television and mobile telephony. These suppliers, also on account of the convergence between the various technologies and among the telecommunications and entertainment markets, might also extend their offer to Internet and voice services, with a consequent possible increase in the concentration of the relevant market and of the level of competitiveness.
In order to compete with its competitors Tiscali's strategy aimed to provide high-quality Internet access services at competitive prices. The possible inability of the Group to compete successfully in the sector in which it operates with respect to its current or future competitors could negatively affect the market position with consequent loss of clients and negative effects on the economic, equity and financial situation of the Company and of the Group companies.
The Group, which operates in a highly complex market from a technological point of view, is exposed to a high risk regarding the IT and ICT systems. As regards the management of risks connected with the damage to and malfunctioning of said systems, on which the business management is based, the Group invests adequate resources aimed at protecting all IT tools and processes. The core-business systems are all highly reliable; the data centre in the Cagliari headquarters is equipped with safety systems such as fire-prevention and anti-flood systems, while the copies of data back-ups made by operational personnel are kept in a different location from the CED (data processing centre) guaranteeing a high level of reliability.
The security system document is drawn up on an annual basis defining the safety measures (technical, IT, organisational, logistical and procedural tools) aimed at reducing the risks of destruction or loss, even accidental, of this data, and of unauthorised access or handling of the same.
The possible lack of electricity or possible interruptions in telecommunications, violations in the security system and other similar unforeseeable negative events (such as the complete destruction of the data centre could cause interruptions or delays in the performance of services, with consequent negative effect on the activity and economic, equity and financial situation of the Group.
Although Tiscali and Aria have adopted rigid protocols to protect data acquired in the course of their operation and they operate strictly respecting the legislation in force in terms of protecting data and privacy, it cannot be excluded that intrusions in their systems may occur in future, with consequent negative impact on the economic, financial and equity results on the Group.
Finally, it should be noted that the companies of the Group have stipulated specific insurance policies to ensure coverage against damage, which its infrastructures might be subject to as a consequence of the aforesaid events. Notwithstanding this, in the event in which damaging events should occur which are not covered by insurance policies or, even though covered, these events should cause damages exceeding the maximum amounts insured, or on account of violations of their systems, the repulational damage suffered should lead to the loss of customers, these circumstances could have a significantly negative impact on the activity and on the economic, equity and financial situation of the Group.
The sector in which the Tiscali Group operates is characterised by profound and sudden technological changes, by a very high level of competitiveness and also by rapid obsolescence of products and services. The success of the Group in future will also depend on its capacity to foresee any such technological changes and on its ability to adapt very quickly through the development of products and services suitable to satisfy its customers' demands. The possible inability to adapt to new technologies and therefore to changes in customers' needs could lead to negative effects on the activity and on the economic, equity and financial situation of the Group companies.
The telecommunications sector in which the group operates is a highly regulated field governed by extensive, stringent and complex norms and legislation, especially regarding the concession of licences, competition, the attribution of frequencies, the setting of tariffs, interconnection agreements and leased lines. Changes to legislation, regulations, or of a policy nature that concern the activities of the Group, as well as sanction measures issued by AGCOM could have negative effects on the activity and on the reputation and, consequently, on the economic, equity and financial situation of the Company and of Group companies.
In particular, such modifications might involve the introduction of greater burdens, in terms of both direct outlay and in terms of the additional cost of adaptation, as well as new aspects of liability and
regulatory barriers with respect to the supply of services. Furthermore, any changes in the legislative framework and also the adoption of provisions on the part of AGCOM might make it more difficult for the Group to obtain services from other operators at competitive rates or might restrict access to the systems and services necessary for the implementation of the activities of the Group.
Among the regulatory modifications to be introduced recently we should note, in particular, the approval on 1 December 2015 of the ruling of AGCOM no. 659/15/CONS aimed at defining the criteria for assignment and use of the frequencies available in the 3600-3800 MHz band for terrestrial electronic communication systems, on which the future call for tenders will be structured.
The outcome of this tender procedure might on the one hand involve a possibility for the post-merger Tiscali Group to extend its services and, on the other hand, the risk of seeing new operators entering the market and, that is, already existing BWA operators extending their offer to the LTE area.
Furthermore, considering the dependency of Group companies on the services of other operators, the Group might not be in a position to adopt and/or adapt timeously to possible measures amending the current legislative and/or regulatory regime in force, with consequent negative effects on the activity and on the economic, equity and financial situation of Group companies.
he evolution of the Group's financial situation depends on various factors and, in particular, on the achievement of the objectives provided for in the Business Plan, the trend in the general conditions of the economy, the financial markets and the sector in which the Group operates.
In the course of recent years, the Group has undertaken a multi-step negotiation process aimed at restructuring its senior financial indebtedness for the purpose of obtaining a financial structure consistent with the expected cash flows and suitable for supporting the growth objectives envisaged in the Business Plan.
This process materialised, between the end of the 2015 financial year and during the first half of 2016, with the realisation in the following operations:
The new financing, taken out on 29 June 2016, has allowed the full repayment of the financing deriving from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA) held by Banca Intesa and the Hedge Funds, restructured in December 2014 and due in September 2017.
The new financing significantly improves the structure of the group's long term financial debt in so far as the due date is later with respect to the preceding debt (March 2022) and the total cost is much less, with an interest rate equal to approximately 50% less than the preceding conditions.
· Subscription, on 7 September 2016 of the convertible bond by Rigensis Bank and Otkritie Capital International Limited, for a consideration of EUR 17 million (with respect to a total approved amount equal to EUR 18.5 million). The new bond, with respect to the current financing with Rigensis Bank, equal to EUR 15 million, entails an extension of the due date of the debt (from March 2018 to September 2020) and a reduction of the debt (the interest rate falls from 9% for the current loan to 7% on the new bond).
The above described actions have brought about a significant improvement in the structure of the long term financial debt, and an important reduction of the overall cost.
The new financing contract provides for determined financial covenants (described at note 23) to be respected. If the Tiscali Group were not able to meet commitments undertaken with respect to the Senior Financiers, the latter might request immediate and full reimbursement of their credit, with this having a consequent impact at the economic and financial level and in terms of the assets of the Group and also in relation to the possibility to carry on its business activities under appropriate conditions of business continuity.
The Tiscali Group operates essentially in Italy. Some supplies, even though for insignificant amounts, might be denominated in foreign currency therefore the risk of exchange rate fluctuations, which the Group is exposed to be minimal.
In relation to exposure to the risks associated with interest rate fluctuations, in view of the Group's predominant financing method (financial debt as per the Restructuring Agreement at a fixed rate) the Group deems the risk of interest rate fluctuations to be insignificant.
Group employees are protected by various laws and/or contracts, which ensure they have, via local and national delegations, the right to be consulted with regard to specific matters, including therein the downsizing or closure of departments and a reduction of the workforce. These laws and/or collective labour contracts applicable to the Group and its suppliers could influence its flexibility when strategically redefining its activities. Tiscall's ability and that of its suppliers to make staff cuts or take other measures, even temporary, to end the employment relationship is subject to government authorisations and the consent of trade unions. Trade union protests by workers could negatively affect the company's activities.
The activities of the Tiscali Group also depend on the currently valid contracts with its strategic suppliers and in particular with Telecom Italia, concerning both the use of the network infrastructures and interconnection.
In particular, there are on-going contracts with Telecom Italia having as their subject the supply of direct and reverse interconnection services, co-location, disaggregate access, single-access ADSL Bitstream flat, shared access and mobile wireless services.
Given the hypothesis that.(i) these contracts should not be renewed at the due date or should be renewed on terms and conditions that are less favourable with respect to those currently existing; or (ii) the Group does not succeed in concluding with Telecom Italia the new contracts necessary for the development of its business; or (ii) in the instances specified in the preceding points, Tiscali does not succeed in concluding equivalent agreements with third party operators; or (iv) if a serious contractual breach should occur on the part of the Company or Telecom Italia, these circumstances could have negative effects on the activity and the economic, equity and financial situation of the Company and the Group companies, with consequent impact on the possibility to carry on its business activities under appropriate conditions of business continuity.
The sector in which the Tiscali Group operates is characterised by a limited availability of specificallytrained specialist personnel. The evolution of technology and the need to satisfy a demand for increasingly sophisticated products and services make it necessary for firms operating in this field to hire staff having highly-specialist training in particular technological areas, applications and solutions associated with a consequent increase of competition in the labour market and salary levels.
In the event in which a significant number of specialized professionals or entire working groups dedicated to specific types of product should leave the Group and the same should not be in a position
to attract qualified staff in substitution, the capacity for innovation the growth prospects of the Tiscali Group may be affected, with possible negative effects on the economic, equity and financial situation of the Company and Group companies.
In this regard, please refer to the section "4.6 Assessment of continuity and envisaged business outlook"
For further information, please refer to the section "4.8 On-going disputes, contingent liabilities and commitments"
| 1st half of 2016 |
1st half of 2015 |
Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Income Statement | |||
| (EUR min) | |||
| Revenues | 101.9 | 103,8 | (1,9) |
| Other income | 1,8 | 14.1 | (12,3) |
| Purchase of materials and outsourced |
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| services | 63,6 | 65,9 | (2,3) |
| Payroll and related costs | 21.2 | 19,9 | 1.4 |
| Other operating (income) charges | (4,7) | 4,7 | |
| Gross Adjusted Operating Result |
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| (EBITDA) | 18.9 | 36,8 | (17,9) |
| Write-downs of receivables from customers | 4 8 | 12,0 | (7,2) |
| Gross operating result (EBITDA) | 14,0 | 24,8 | (10,8) |
| Restructuring costs and other write-downs | 04 | 0,3 | 0,1 |
| Amortisation/ depreciation | 24,7 | 17,3 | 7,3 |
| Operating result (EBIT) | 11,0) | 7,1 | (18,1) |
| Net financial income (charges) | (6,79) | (9,0) | 2,3 |
| Pre-tax result | 19870 | (1,9) | (15,8) |
| Income taxes | (0,0) | (0,1) | 0,1 |
| Net result from operating activities (on- | |||
| going) | (17,97) | (2,0) | (15,7) |
| Result from assets disposed of and/or held | |||
| for sale | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0,0 |
| Net result | (17,7) | (2,0) | (15,7) |
| Minority interests | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 |
| Group Net Result | (17,77) | (2,0) | (15,7) |
It is noted that the economic data at June 30, 2015 included in the table above are not comparable with the data at June 30, 2015, as they include the results of the Aria Group, whose integration into the Tiscali Group took place at December 31, 2015. The data at June 30, 2015 are taken from the 2015 Interim Report and therefore not including the results of the Aria Group.
Tiscali Group's revenues during the first half of 2016 stood at EUR 101.9 million (of which 8.8 million related to Aria Group), down by 1.8% compared to EUR 103.8 million in the first half of 2015.
The net change of EUR 1.9 million, is mainly attributable to the following factors:
· reduction of EUR 8 million (-10.6%) in revenues of the "Fixed Broadband" segment, which stood at EUR 68 million (EUR 76 million in the first half of 2015). The reduction is mainly due to the strong competitive pressure and loss of ADSL customers (-6%);
· MVNO revenues grew by 14.9%, from EUR 4.3 million to EUR 5 million in the first half of 2016;
During the first half of 2016, Internet access – which included the Fixed Broadband Access and Fixed Wireless - accounted for approximately 75% of the total turnover.
Costs for purchases of materials and services amounted to EUR 62.9 million decreased by EUR 2.9 million compared to the first half of last year. The incidence on sales of such costs is decreasing as well, from 63.5% in the first half 2015 to 62% in the first half 2016.
It is acknowledged that data for the first half of 2015, in the lines "Other income" and "Other operating expenses / (income))" was affected by positive extraordinary items mainly relating to a transaction carried out with a major telecommunications operator. These non-recurring items are not recorded in the results of the first half of 2016.
The effects described above result in a gross operating result (EBITDA), net of provisions and impairment losses on loans amounting to EUR 18.9 million, a 17.9 million decrease compared to data for the first half of the previous year (EUR 36.8 million)) mainly owing to the lack of the positive extraordinary items described above.
The gross operating income net of trade receivables impairment (EBITDA) amounted to EUR 14 million), a decrease compared to the same figure for the first half 2015 (EUR 24.8 million), in large part due to the lack of positive items described above.
The net operating result (EBIT), net of provisions, write-downs and restructuring costs, recorded a loss of EUR 11 million, recording a decrease of EUR 18.1 million compared to the positive result of the 2015 first half amounting to EUR 7.1 million. The decrease is mainly ascribable, in addition to negative impacts on EBITDA as above, to the relevant depreciation ascribable to Aria as a result of the strong investment made in the past (3.5GHz license acquisition and Fixed Wireless network equipment).
Among the provisions, write-downs and restructuring costs in the first half of 2016, expenses of EUR 0.4 million were accounted attributable primarily to restructuring charges relating to the capital increase operations anticipated in the previous year and unrealized.
The result from operating activities (on-going), down by EUR 17.7 million , is worse than the comparable figure of the previous six months, recording a loss of EUR 2 million.
The result from assets disposed of and/or destined for disposal was nil, given that there were no activities related to them.
The Group's Net Result was a loss of EUR 17.7 million, decreasing compared to the figure of the previous six months, a loss of EUR 2 million, largely the effect of non-recurring positive impact recorded in the first half of 2015 and higher depreciation resulting from the merger with Aria.
| Operational Income Statement - Group | 1st half of 2016 | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (EUR min) | ||
| Revenues Revenues from Broadband Access of which Fixed Broadband |
101.9 76.8 68.0 |
103,8 76.0 76.0 |
| of which FWA Broadband Revenues from MVNO Revenues from Business Services and Wholesale |
8.8 5.0 11.9 |
0.0 4,3 11,6 |
| Revenues from media and value-added services | 15 | 10,4 |
| Other revenues | 0.7 | 1,4 |
| Gross Operating Margin | 50,6 | 49.0 |
| Indirect operating costs | 33,5 | 30,9 |
| Marketing and sales Payroll and related costs |
3 8 21.2 |
4,3 19,9 |
| Other indirect costs Other (income) charges |
8 4 (1,8) |
6,8 (18,8) |
| Adjusted Gross Operating Result (EBITDA) | 18,9 | 36,8 |
| Write-down of receivables from customers | 4 9 | 12,0 |
| Gross Operating Result (EBITDA) Amortisation/ Depreciation |
14.0 24,7 |
24,8 17,3 |
| Gross Result (EBIT) before restructuring costs and provisions for risks |
(10,7) | 7,4 |
| Operating result (EBIT) | (1,0) | 7,1 |
| Group Net Result | (4 7 (7 ) | (2,0) |
It is noted that the economic data at June 30, 2015 included in the table above are not comparable with the data at June 30, 2015, as they include the results of the Aria Group, whose integration into the Tiscali Group took place at December 31, 2015. The data at June 30, 2015 are taken from the 2015 Interim Report and therefore not including the results of the Aria Group.

Fig. 3 - Breakdown of revenues by business line and access mode
Source: Tiscali
This segment, which includes Internet access services, generated revenues in the first half of 2016 of around EUR 76.8 million (EUR 68 million from "Access Fixed" and EUR 8.8 million from "Access Fixed Wireless"), essentially unchanged compared to the corresponding period in 2015 (EUR 76.0 million). The variance compared to the first half of 2015, net of the consolidation of the component "Fixed Wireless Access" wholly attributable to Aria Group, whose data are consolidated with effect from 31 December 2015, amounted to -10.6%,.
As at 30 June 2016, the total active customers came to 679,9 thousand units, an increase of approximately 85,8 thousand compared to the corresponding figure at 30 June 2015 (594.1 thousand units) of which "Broadband Access" customers of 429.8 thousand units, down by around 27.4 thousand units, Fixed Wireless customers" of 96.4 thousand attributable to Aria Group, Mobile customers (customers traffickers in the last 6 months) of 146.3 thousand, sharp growth (+19.9 thousand) with respect to the corresponding figure at 30 June 2015, and Other customers of 7.4 thousand units.
| housand | 30 June 2016 | 30 June 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Total customers | 679.9 | 594.1 |
| of which Broadband Access | 420 % | 457.2 |
| of which Fixed Wireless (*) | ||
| of which Mobile (Voice and Data) (**) | 45 | 126.4 |
| of which Other | 10.5 |
(*) It should be noted that the "Fixed Wireless" customers does include, as at June 30th, 2016, a number of ex clients waiting for the reactivation, amounting to about 22,6 thousand units
(**) Please note that the Company modified the criterion for determining the number of mobile customers (Voice and Data), in line with the criterion used by other telecommunications operators, including in the total number of Mobile customers the active and operating customers in the last 6 months, instead of the active and operating customers in the last month. Consequently, in order to be able to make a comparison with the 2015 figures, the number of Mobile customers (Voice and Data) at 30 June 2015 has been re-determined using the new criterion, passing from 107, 1 thousand units (figures published as at 30 June 2015) to 126,4 thousand units ( redetermined figure at the same date).
The MVNO segment grew by 14.9%, from EUR 4.3 million in the first half of 2015 to EUR 5 million in the first half of 2016.
Revenues from business services (VPN, housing, hosting, advanced connectivity services) and wholesale, amounted in the first half 2016 to EUR 11.9 million, up 2.7% compared to EUR 11, 6 million in the first half 2015.
In the first half of 2016, revenues from the media segment, and value-added services (mainly related to the sale of advertising space) amounted to approximately EUR 7.5 million, down by 28% compared to the previous six months (EUR 10.4 million at 30 June 2015). The decrease is mainly attributable to the sharp contraction of the online market, as well as the loss of one of the most important customers, in terms of revenue, of the Media division.
Indirect operating costs in the first half of 2016 amounted to EUR 33,5 million, up when compared to the first half of 2015 (EUR 30.9 million). Within indirect operating costs, marketing costs amounted to approximately EUR 3.8 million, down when compared to the previous half year (EUR 4.3 million).
Payroll and related costs amounted to EUR 21.3 million (20.7% of revenues), up over the same figure of the first half of 2015 (EUR 19.9 million, 19.2% of revenues), mainly due to the incorporation of staff resulting from the merger with Aria, plus the assumption of new management in the Group, with effect from February 2016, and to a lower utilization of the "contratto di solidarietà". In addition, the cost of the staff has been affected, in the first half of 2016, by the increase in Consip capitalization and lower capitalization on the OTT projects.
It is acknowledged that data for the first half of 2015, in the line "Other income/costs", was affected by positive extraordinary items mainly relating to a transaction carried out with a major telecommunications operator. These non-recurring items are not recorded in the first haff of 2016.
The effect of the above determines an Adjusted gross operating result (EBITDA), before provisions for risks, write-downs and amortisation, amounting to EUR 18.9 million (18.4% of revenues). This figure is down compared to the first half of 2015 amounting to EUR 36.8 million, mainly due to the lower positive impact of non-recurring transactions concluded in the period.
Gross operating result (EBITDA), net of write-down of receivables and other provisions amounted to EUR 14 million in first half of 2016 (13.6% of revenues), a 43.5% decreased compared to the figure for the first half of 2015 (EUR 24.8 million, i.e. 23.9% of revenues).
Write-downs of receivables from customers and other provisions in the first half of 2016 totalled EUR 4.9 million (12 million in the corresponding period of 2015) and reflects EUR 1.4 million of provision for write-downs of receivables of the Aria Group.
Amortisation/depreciation amounted to EUR 24.7 million (EUR 17.3 million in the first half of 2015).
The increase in depreciation is mainly due to the contribution of the amortization of the assets Aria S.pA. amounted to EUR 8.6 million (of which amortization of WiMax license is EUR 2.8 million).
Net operating result (EBIT), net of provisions, write-downs and restructuring costs, is a loss amounting to EUR 11 million, recording a decrease of EUR 18.1 million compared to the positive result of the first half of 2015 amounting to EUR 7.1 million. The deterioration is mainly attributable to a lower impact of non-recurring income in the first half of 2016 and higher depreciation resulting from the merger with Aria relating to past investments for the license and development of fixed wireless network.
The Group's net result is a loss of EUR 17.7 million, down by EUR 2 million compared to the figure of the first semester of the previous year.
| Consolidated Balance Sheet (in abridged form) | 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (EUR min) | ||
| Non-current assets Current assets |
225 1 69.7 |
233,0 57,4 |
| Total Assets | 294,8 | 290,5 |
| Group shareholders' equity Shareholders' equity pertaining to minority shareholders |
(139,8) | (121,4) |
| Total Shareholders' equity | (139.8) | (121,4) |
| Non-current liabilities Current liabilities |
169.2 265,5 |
164,9 247,0 |
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 294.8 | 290,5 |
Non-current assets at 30 June 2016 amounted to EUR 225.1 million (EUR 233 million at 31 December 2015). The net change is essentially attributable to the investments in the period net of the depreciation charge on intangible and tangible fixed assets in the first half of 2016. Investments, amounting to around EUR 17 million, essentially refer to the extension and development of the network, IT services and the connection and activation of new ADSL customers, in fixed and fixed wireless mode.
Current assets as at 30 June 2016 amounted to EUR 69.7 million, down by EUR 11.5 million (EUR 57.4 million at 31 December 2015), and include mainly receivables from customers which, as at 30 June 201, amounted to EUR 34.3 million compared to EUR 35.4 million as at 31 December 2015. In addition to cash and cash equivalents, the item in question also includes other receivables and other current assets, amounting to EUR 27.6 million, represented by prepaid expense for service costs, and sundry receivables.
The consolidated shareholders' equity amounted to EUR 139.8 million, negative at 30 June 2016, and a decrease of EUR 18.4 million compared to 31 December 2015 due to:
▪ decrease associated to the net loss of comprehensive income statement amounting to EUR 17.7 million.
Non-current liabilities, as at 30 June 2016, amounted in total to EUR 169.2 million, up with respect to 31 December 2015 (EUR 164.9 million). The balance includes both the items pertaining to the financial position, with reference to which please see the matters illustrated below, the provision for risks and charges for EUR 8.5 million, the provision for employee severance indemnities for EUR 6.8 million and other non-current liabilities for EUR 3.6 million.
Current liabilities amounted to EUR 265.5 million at 30 June 2016 (compared with EUR 247 million at 31 December 2015) and mainly include the current portion of financial payables to suppliers, together with accrued expenses pertaining to the purchase of access services and line rental, tax liabilities.
As at 30 June 2016, the Tiscali Group held cash, cash equivalents and bank deposits totaling EUR 6.8 million, against net financial debt, at the same date, of EUR 165.5 million (EUR 165,6 million as at 31 December 2015).
| Financial position | Notes | 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (EUR thousands) | |||
| A. Cash and Bank deposits | 6.8 | 4,8 | |
| B. Other cash equivalents | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| C. Securities held for trading | |||
| D. Cash and cash equivalents (A) + (B) + (C) | 6,8 | 4,8 | |
| E. Current financial receivables | 0,0 | 0,0 | |
| F. Non-current financial receivables | (1) | 7/11/2 | 7,6 |
| G. Current bank payables | (2) | 13,4 | 11,6 |
| H. Current portion of non-current debt | (3) | 12.6 | 16,9 |
| I. Other current financial payables | (4) | 3 9 | 3,6 |
| J. Current financial debt (G) + (H) + (H) + (I) | 29,8 | 32,1 | |
| K. Net current financial debt (J) - (E) - (D) - (F) | 15.9 | 19,7 | |
| L. Non-current bank payables | (5) | 99.9 | 94,5 |
| M. Bonds issued | |||
| N. Other non-current payables | (6) | 49.7 | 51,3 |
| O. Non-current financial debt (N) + (L) + (M) | 149,6 | 145,8 | |
| P. Net financial debt (K) + (O) | 165,5 | 165,6 |
(1) Mainly includes the deposit pledged as guarantee relating to the CONSIP Tender.
(2) Includes the bank payables of Tiscali Italia S.p.A., Tiscali S.p.A., Veesible S.r.l. and Aria Group.
(3) Includes the short-term component of the Senior Loan, amounting to EUR 4.3 million and EUR 3 million relating to the Rigensis loan accounted in Aria Group (principal and interest loan portion repayable within 12 months).
(4) Includes mainly the short-term portion of the "Sale & Lease Back Sa Illetta" debt.
(5) Includes mainly the long-term component of the Senior Loan, amounting to EUR 81,8 million, and EUR 15.9 million relating to the Rigensis loan.
(6) Includes mainly the long-term component of the "Sale & Lease Back Sa Illetta" debt.
The table above includes guarantee deposits under "Other cash and cash equivalents" and among the "Non-current financial receivables". Subsequently, for completeness, there is also indicated the reconciliation of the financial position above with the financial position prepared in accordance with Consob communication no. DEM/6064293 of 28 July 2006 and reported in the explanatory notes.
| 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
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|---|---|---|
| (EUR min) | ||
| Consolidated net financial debt Other cash equivalents and non-current financial |
165 5 | 165.6 |
| receivables Consolidated net financial debt prepared on the basis of Consob communication No. DEM/6064293 of 28 July |
7.6 | |
| 2006 | 173.1 |
The Tiscali Group closed the first half of 2016 with a consolidated loss of EUR 17.7 million (influenced by the positive effect, amounting to EUR 1 million, of the non-recurring transactions concluded in the period) and negative consolidated shareholders' equity of EUR 139.8 million. Furthermore, as at 30 June 2016, the Group had a gross financial debt of EUR 179.4 million and current liabilities greater than current assets (non-financial) for EUR 172.9 million.
As of 31 December 2015, the consolidated loss amounted to roughly EUR 18.5 million (influenced by the positive effect, amounting to EUR 6,9 million, of the non-recurring transactions concluded in the period), with negative consolidated shareholders' equity of EUR 121.4 million. Furthermore, as at 31 December 2015, the Group had a gross financial debt of EUR 177.9 million and current liabilities greater than current assets (non-financial) for EUR 162.5 million.
During the year 2015, the Tiscali Group carried out a business combination with the Aria Group, finalized on 24 December 2015, through the merger of Aria Italia S.p.A., the parent holding company of Aria S.p.A., in Tiscali S.p.A. ("Fusion" or "Transaction") with effect from December 24, 2015
The Transaction allowed a strategic industrial-type merger among the industrial activities controlled by Tiscali with the activities headed by Aria, as well as allowing the Tiscali Group to reduce its debt, through full repayment of Facility A1 of the senior loan ("Group Facility Agreement" o "GFA"), made in December 2015.
Following the merger with Aria Group, dated 16 February 2016, the new Board of Directors took place and Riccardo Ruggiero was appointed as the new CEO, who was the CEO of Aria prior to the merger date.
In the first half of 2016, the Company undertook a series of actions to streamline the internal organizational structure of the Group and management processes in order to improve the Group's competitiveness and profitability, and to render cost structuring more efficient. The following initiatives are worth noting:
These major actions have already allowed to reach in the first six months of 2016 the following fundamental operating results in line with the new business strategy:
the first half of 2016. However, the customer base of the Group at 30 June 2016 showed a decrease compared to December 31, 2015 amounted to 2.9%;
All the above activities implemented during the first half of 2016, spread out their effects in terms of increased efficiency and effectiveness and overall business management in the coming months.
Finally it should be noted that in May 2016, the Company signed a contract for the supply of connectivity services of the Public Administration within the Public Connectivity System (SPC) after the negative outcome of the appeals made to TAR by Telecom Italia and Fastweb. The contract has a duration of 7 years. The share of Tiscali, as determined by competition regulations, is equal to 60% of the total value of the order. Tiscali is now awaiting the final judgment by the Council of State on the appeal filed in final instance by Telecom Italia and Fastweb. This final decision is expected for the first months of 2017.
In addition, the signing of two important industrial agreements took place after June 2016 will bring new positive effects to the Tiscali Group in the coming months:
From the financial point of view, in the first half of 2016 the company completed the long-term financial debt restructuring process, resulting in a better definition of the financial structure of the same, a lengthening of maturities and a reduction in the overall cost of debt.
In particular, the Company carried out the following:
The new loan, signed on 29 June 2016, enabled full repayment of the loan resulting from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA) to Banca Intesa and some Hedge Funds, restructured on December 2014 and due to expire in September 2017.
The new loans significantly improves long-ferm debt structure of the group in that:
o the total cost of financing is appreciably inferior, with an approximately 50% interest rate less than previously.
Signing, on 7 September 2016 of the convertible and converting bond by Rigensis Bank and Otkritie Capital International Limited for a value of EUR 17 million (compared to a total approved amount of EUR 18.5 million). The new bond, mainly used to repay the previous financial debt to Rigensis bank AS, equal to the initial EUR 15 million, involves a lengthening of the debt maturity (from March 2018 to September 2020) and a reduction in the cost of debt (the interest rate is down, from 9% on the old loan to 7% on the new bonds, in addition to 1.5% commission fees), plus the ability for Tiscali to repay at maturity the above loan with a capital increase, was already approved by the Shareholders' meeting on September 5, 2016. It also provides to the Subscribers the right to convert such bonds into ordinary shares of the Company at a fixed price of € 0.06 per share.
Considering the above, and the positive effects of the operations already completed and in progress in the coming months on the economic and financial structure of the Group, the Company's management has analysed the results of the first half, has verified that they are in line with expectations laid down in the Business Plan drawn up for the purpose of the Group financial statements as at 31 december 2015 and approved by the Board on 28 March 2016, and thus confirmed the validity of the Business Plan.
It should be noted that the Business Plan prudently did not include the performance of the Consip contract, and management can confirm that exclusion, given that the appeal of some competitors before the State Council is currently pending. In any case, the Company believes that, in spite of the execution of the SPS contract, assimilation of financial resources, realization of the Business Plan and subsequent events at the same, such as the agreement with Huawei and the issue of the convertible bonds and converting, render available sufficient financial resources to implement in the most efficient manner the framework contract with Consip.
In this context, and considering the above, the achievement of a balanced equity, income and the Group's financial results in the long run, however, are subject to the achievement of the results expected in the Business Plan and, therefore, on whether the forecasts and assumptions contained therein related, in general, the evolution of the telecommunications market and, in particular, to achieve the growth targets set in a market characterized by strong competitive pressure, as well as with reference to achieve a complete and effective integration of industrial, commercial and administrative facilities of Aria Group in Tiscali, which allows the obtaining of business objectives and the alleged.
The management, in the context of preparing the financial statements at 31 December 2016 and the preparation of the Budget 2017, will carry out a review of the Business Plansynergies in the Plan.
The Board of Directors highlighted that the Group has:
reversed the decline in the customer base, which is has been growing again starting April 2016, with the new business strategy and actions carried out on the Customer Care structure
confirmed the validity of the 2016-2021 Business Plan, in the light of the actual figures at the end of the first half of 2016, as well as the effects of the operations carried out in the same period and in the following months;
The Directors, highlight, as they also did during the preparation of financial statements for the year 2015, the persistence of material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt on the Tiscali Group's ability to continue to operate on the assumption of going concern, ascribable to achieving the objectives of the 2016-2021 Plan, with particular reference to the telecommunications market to achieve its growth targets, relating in particular to Ultrabroadband LTE services, the main development area planned in the Plan, in a market characterized by strong competitive pressure, as well as with reference to the expected synergies resulting from the integration of the Aria Group in Tiscali;
The Directors, in analysing what has been achieved in the context of the path aimed at allowing the Group to achieve in the long run a balanced equity, financial and economic, recognize that the current date and in the presence of criticalities intrinsic to the 2016-2021 Plan - despite the Group debt reduction that took place in the year 2015 and the financial operations carried out during the 2016 uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group's ability to continue to operate under the assumption of going concern but, have the reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources after making the necessary checks and assessing the uncertainties identified in light of the elements described, confident in the capacity of being able to implement the provisions in the 2016-2021 Plan, have the reasonable expectation that the Group have adequate resources even in case of a favorable outcome of the State Council on the Consip Race, to continue the operational existence for the foreseeable future and, therefore, have adopted the going concern assumption in the preparation of these financial statements.
This conclusion is, of course, effected by subjective judgment, which compared, with respect to the events described above, the degree of likelihood of their fulfilment compared to the contrary situation. It must be noted that the forecast underlying the decision of the Board is likely to be challenged by events. Precisely because the Board of Directors is aware of the inherent limitations of this conclusion, it will monitor constantly the evolution of the factors considered (as well as any circumstances of significance), so that necessary measures can be promptly taken.
In line with the above and in line with the objectives of the company will also commit, in the coming months, to focusing on Core Business elements to strengthen its presence in the Italian fixed and mobile BroadBand market. This will be due to:
There will also be further focus in the identification of all actions required to increase the overall degree of the company's efficiency and the consequent reduction in costs. A further reduction of costs is expected due to:
o the acquisition, in the second half of the year, of significant benefits on the cost of staff downstream of the initiatives undertaken in the first half of the year, described in the preceding paragraphs;
Further efficiency measures implemented in terms of general operating costs.
20 July 2016 Partnership signed with Enel Open Fiber for the development and marketing of the ultrabroadband telecommunications network in Italy
On 20 July 2016, Tiscali and Enel Open Fiber (EOF), an ENEL group company founded for the development of fibre optic network infrastructure in Italy, signed a preliminary agreement for the provision of end-to-end connections for access to the fibre optic network FTTH (Fiber To The Home) developed by Enel Open Fiber. In this way, the two groups intend to launch a partnership for the development and marketing of the "ultra-broadband" telecommunications network in certain parts of Italy.
The agreement with Enel Open Fiber takes on a significant strategy value for Tiscali as it complements the current LTE 4G Fixed Wireless access network development plan that Tiscali has started to implement. Thanks to the agreement with Enel Open Fiber Tiscali it will supply UltraBroadBand services throughout Italy: through the LTE 4G Fixed Wireless solution in Digital Divide areas and using the Enel Open Fiber FTTH network elsewhere, ensuring our users access performance to the network of up to 1 Gigabit per second.
The agreement is in line with the Italian plan for "ultra-broadband" promoted by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and with the objectives of European Digital Agenda 2020, and pursues the Italian strategy for ultra-broadband presented in March 2015. In relation to the plan, EOF will develop an "ultra-broadband" telecommunications network in FTTH mode in non-market failure areas with the infrastructure goal in selected municipalities and will therefore a coverage of 80% of the real estate units present in each municipality.
Tiscali is also entering this overall Italian strategy through its now signed partnership, marketing its product in FTTH mode on the network developed by EOF starting with the municipalities of Venice, Catania, Cagliari, Naples, Perugia, Genoa, Palermo, Florence and Padua, and with the aim of extending the supply to the municipalities in which the same network will be developed.
On 22 July 2016, the Board of Directors reviewed and accepted a proposed term sheet relating to the issuance by Tiscali S.p.A. of a convertible bond and converting, unguaranteed, a maximum of EUR 18.5 million reserved for qualified investors and intended, inter alia, to refinance the Group's debt against Rigensis Bank AS, maturing in March 2018.
The aforementioned bond shall be initially signed by Rigensis Bank AS itself and by Otkritie Disciplined Equity Fund (ODEF) and shall have a term of 4 years, a 7% coupon rate and a fixed price established at EUR 0.06 per share for the conversion of bonds into ordinary shares of the Company.
ODEF being a significant shareholder of Tiscali S.p.A., with a shareholding of approximately 22.5%, the transaction is a "Related-Party Transaction". Therefore: (i) the same has been submitted, together with the related documents, to the prior approval of the Committee for Transactions with Related Parties which, as a result of the procedure for the approval of major transactions, issued a favourable opinion; (i) in accordance with the law prior to the meeting will be convened to approve the
capital increase to service the conversion of the Company will publish, inter alia, an information document in compliance with Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Regulation adopted with CONSOB Resolution 17221/2010.
The Board of Directors granted the CEO to negotiate and enter into binding agreements with the aforementioned counterparties with the aim of finalising the transaction in the coming months.
Today's Board has, also, appointed Alexander Okun as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Alexander Okun, formerly Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, takes over from Renato Soru, who resigned from the same position on 12 May 2016.
29 July 2016 - Approval of the plan for the issuance of a convertible bond and unguaranteed conversion and the proposed increase of share capital to service the conversion of the loan; convention of the meeting to approve the issuance of the bond and the increase in capital to service the same
On 20 July 2016, the Tiscali Board of Directors:
On 7 September 2016, Rigensis Bank AS and Otkritie Capital International Limited signed, respectively, 17 convertible bonds with a nominal value of EUR 500,000 each, for a total value of EUR 17 million, to apply to the convertible bond and unguaranteed conversion, the issuance of which and related capital increase to service the conversion were approved by the company's extraordinary meeting of 5 September 2016. As already disclosed to the aforementioned convertible bond will have a term of 4 years, a coupon rate of 7% and a fixed price established at EUR 0.06 per share for the conversion of bonds into ordinary shares of the Company. The amount approved is EUR 18.5 million, therefore the company will have the opportunity to place the remaining EUR 1.5 million with qualified investors by January 2017.
On September 22nd, 2016, the Group signed a framework agreement with the Italian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies for the end supply of the Ultrabroadband fixed wireless LTE advanced 4G access network on a 3.5GHz frequency. The framework agreement provides for the supply of network equipment (core and radio network, radio links and access base radio stations) and CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and gives Tiscali the possibility of making investments for EUR 40 million, thus helping to cover the company's LTE investment needs for near future.
During the normal course of its business, Tiscali Group is involved is certain legal and arbitration proceedings, as well as being subject to tax audit procedures.
Below is a summary of the main proceedings in which the Group is involved.
In June 2011, Tiscali Italia sued, at the Court of Milan, TeleTu S.p.A., demanding compensation for damages of approximately EUR 10 million caused by illegal conduct carried out by the defendant in the transfer of users in the period January 2009 - April 2011. The defendant filed a counterclaim for alleged similar acts carried out by Tiscali Italia, demanding, in turn, compensation for damages of over EUR 9 million. In July 2016, the CTU was launched. The outcome of the case cannot be foreseen.
In April 2016, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court rejected the appeal filed by Telecom Italia and Fastweb against the awarding procedure of the SPC Consip tender to Tiscali Italia.
The losing parties appealed to the State Council against the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, which set the trial in a single hearing to be held on 19 January 2017
In March 2016, World Online NV, part of the Tiscali Group, has entered into a settlement agreement with certain financial institutions in connection with the litigation brought by former shareholders of Telinco Ltd, the employees and management of Telinco Ltd and some of their family members and employees.
The agreement involved a total cash out of EUR 0.3 million, which occurred in March 2016, and puts an end to the dispute with shareholders above the Telinco Ltd.
In September 2013, Tiscali S.p.A. received from the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cagliari, pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001, a notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations into alleged conduct of false corporate communications relating to the financial statements from 2008 to 2012. The subsidiary Tiscali Italia received the same notice in January 2014. The supposed offences alleged against the company and some directors, set out in Article 2622 of the Italian Civil Code, refer to alleged incorrect accounting entries for provisions for doubtful debts. In June 2016, upon the outcome of the preliminary hearing, the two companies were committed for trial, as were the accused directors. The Companies are preparing the necessary defensive activities for the trial that will commence in October 2016.
Pursuant to CONSOB Resolution no. 15519 of 27 July 2006 it is reported that in the first of 2016 nonrecurring transactions were recorded with an overall positive effect on the Group's income statement of EUR 1 million, which mainly include the positive effects resulting from write-offs of commercial nature positions.
The table below shows the exposure in the consolidated income statement of the amounts relating to non-recurring transactions:
| Non-Recurring Transactions | 1st half of 2016 |
|---|---|
| Revenues | 0.0 |
| Other income | 0.0 |
| Purchase of materials and outsourced services | (1.5) |
| Payroll and related costs | 0.0 |
| Other operating (income) charges | 0.0 |
| Adjusted gross operating result (EBITDA) | 1.5 |
| Write-down of receivables from customers | 0.0 |
| Gross operating result (EBITDA) | 1.5 |
| Amortisation, depreciation, restructuring costs and other write-downs |
0.4 |
| Operating result (EBIT) | 1.0 |
| Net financial income (charges) | 0.0 |
| Pre-tax result | 1.0 |
| Income taxes | |
| Net result from operating activities (on- going) |
1.0 |
| Result from assets disposed and/or held for sale |
|
| Net result | 1.0 |
Pursuant to Consob Communication dated 28 July 2006, it is specified that, during the first half of 2016, the Group did not carry out any atypical and/or unusual transactions, as defined in the Communication itself.
The Regulation for Transactions with Related Parties prepared pursuant to Article 2391-bis of the Italian Civil Code and Consob Regulation no. 17221 of 12 March 2010 entered into force as of 1 January 2011 and is published on the Company's website, in the Investor Relations section. For details, please refer to the paragraph "Related-Party Transactions".
Cagliari, 27 September 2016
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Riccardo Ruggiero
The Executive Responsible for
the Company's Accounts
Pasquale Lionetti
| 5.1 Income statement 1st half of |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Income Statement (*) | Notes | ist half of 2016 |
2015 |
| (Thousands of Euros) | |||
| Revenues | 1 | 101,929 | 103,785 |
| Other income | 2 | 1.73 | 14,087 |
| Purchase of materials and outsourced services | 3 | 63,570 | 65,854 |
| Payroll and related costs | 4 | 21,246 | 19,893 |
| Other operating (income) charges | 5 | 20: | (4,667) |
| Write-down of receivables from customers | 6 | 4.863 | 12,014 |
| Restructuring costs and other write-downs | 7 | 367 | 315 |
| Amortisation/ depreciation | 13-14 | 24,653 | 17,345 |
| Operating result | (The Orize) | 7,119 | |
| Net financial income (charges) | 8 | (6,683) | (9,020) |
| Pre-tax result | (17,700) | (1,901) | |
| Income taxes | 9 | (34) | (139) |
| Net result from operating activities (on-going) | (17,734) | (2,040) | |
| Result from assets disposed and/or held for sale | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Net result for the period | 11 | (17,734) | (2,040) |
| Attributable to: | |||
| - Result attributable to the Parent Company | (17,734) | (2,040) | |
| - Result attributable to Third Parties | 0.00 | 0.0 | |
| Earnings (Loss) per share Earnings per share from continuing and discontinued operations: - Basic - Diluted |
(0.01) (0.01) |
(0.00) (0.00) |
|
| Earnings per share from continuing operations: - Basic - Diluted |
(0.01) (0.01) |
(0.00) (0.00) |
(*) The financial data as at 30 June 2016 are not comparable with the data as at 30 June 2015, as they include the results of Aria Group, which merged into Tiscali Group on 31 December 2015
| Statement of Comprehensive Income Statement (*) Notes |
1st half of 2016 |
1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euros) | ||
| Result for the period | (17,734) | (2,040) |
| Other components of comprehensive income: Other components of comprehensive income which will be subsequently reclassified under profit/(loss) for the |
||
| period Other components of comprehensive income which will not be subsequently reclassified under profit/(loss) for the period |
C (535) |
0 152 |
| (Loss)/profit from revaluation of defined benefit plans |
(তুর ত) | 1.592 |
| Total other components of comprehensive income Total statement of comprehensive income result |
(ਹੈ) ਹੈ। (13,269) |
152 (1,888) |
| Attributable to: | (18,269) | (1,888) |
| Shareholders of the parent company Minority shareholders |
0 | 0 |
| (18 269) | (1,888) |
(*) The financial data as at 30 June 2016 are not comparable with the data as at 30 June 2015, as they include the results of Aria Group, which merged into Tiscali Group on 31 December 2015
| 5.3 | Balance Sheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Balance Sheet | Notes | 30 June 20116 |
31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euros) | |||
| Non-current assets | |||
| Intangible assets | 13 | 104,089 | 106,724 |
| Property, plant and equipment | 14 | 109,975 | 114,784 |
| Other financial assets | 15 | 10,976 | 11,496 |
| Deferred tax assets | 30 | 43 | |
| 225,070 | 233,047 | ||
| Current assets | |||
| Inventories | 16 | 827 | 913 |
| Trade receivables | 17 | 34,355 | 35,316 |
| Other receivables and other current assets | 18 | 27,637 | 16,345 68 |
| Other current financial assets | 19 | 66 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 20 | 6.844 69,7629 |
4,770 57,412 |
| Assets held for sale | (0) | (0) | |
| Total Assets | 294 799 | 290,458 | |
| Share Capital and reserves | 91 201 | 169,077 | |
| Share Capital | 559 | ||
| Stock option reserves | (213,846) | (272,017) | |
| Results from previous periods and Other reserves | |||
| Results pertaining to the Group | (17,734) | (18,480) | |
| Group shareholders' equity | 21 | (139,820) | (121,421) |
| Minority interest | 0 | 0 | |
| equity attributable Shereholders' to minority interests |
22 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Shareholders' equity | (139,820) | (121,421) | |
| Non-current liabilities | |||
| Payables due to banks and to other lenders | 23 | 99,909 | 94,546 |
| Payables for financial leases | 23 | 49,717 | 51,279 |
| Other non-current liabilities Liabilities for pension obligations and staff severance |
24 | 3,603 | 1,968 |
| indemnities | 25 | 6,795 | 6,296 |
| Provisions for risks and charges | 26 | 8,545 | 10,165 |
49 Consolidated financial report as at 30 June 2016
| Provisions for deferred tax | 27 | 283 | 628 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 169,152 | 164,882 | ||
| Current liabilities | |||
| Payables due to banks and to other lenders | 23 | 25,963 | 28,488 |
| Payables for financial leases | 23 | 3,771 | 3,470 |
| Trade payables | 28 | 153,497 | 131,743 |
| Other current liabilities | 29 | 82,236 | 83,296 |
| 265,467 | 246,997 | ||
| Liabilities directly related to assets held for sale | (0) | ||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholderes' equity | 294,799 | 290,458 |
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| 30 June 2016 | 30 June 2015 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euros) | ||
| OPERATIONS | ||
| Result from continuing operations | (TTTC4) | (2,040) |
| Adjustments for: | ||
| Depreciation of tangible assets | 7,641 | 5,448 |
| Amortisation of intangible assets | 17,011 | 11,897 |
| Allowance for bad debt provision | 4,863 | 6,912 |
| Capital gains on disposals of non-current assets | (1,054) | (1,054) |
| Stock Option cost | ਦੇ ਦੇ ਉਹ | |
| Income taxes | ર્જિત્ય | 142 |
| Release of provision for risks | (996) | 0 |
| Write-offs and settlement agreements with suppliers | (1,486) | (12,664) |
| Other changes | 1,176 | 975 |
| Financial (Income) / charges | 6,683 | 9,020 |
| Cash flows from operations before changes in working capital | 16,698 | 18,635 |
| Change in receivables | (3,902) | (1,329) |
| Change in inventory | 85 | 317 |
| Change in trade payables | 20,866 | 12.632 |
| Change in long-term frade payables | 1,466 | 2,090 |
| Net change in provisions for risks and charges | (626) | (0) |
| Net change in provisions for staff severance indemnity | (212) | (115) |
| Changes in other liabilities | (1,069) | 2,178 |
| Changes in other assets | (11,292) | (563) |
| Changes in working capital | 5,318 | 15,211 |
| 22,016 | 33,846 | |
| CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS DERIVING FROM OPERATIONS |
||
| INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES Change in other financial assets |
||
| 521 | (6,607) | |
| Purchase of tangible Assets | (2,663) | (10,201) |
| Purchase of intangible Assets | (14,376) | (8,570) |
Proceeds from sale of assets
Change in payables due to banks of which: Repayment of capital and interest on Senior Loan Increase/Decrease in current account overdrafts Repayment/Acceptance of financial leasing Exchange difference OCI reserve
Changes in shareholders' equity
Effect of changes in foreign currencies exchange rates
Cah flow generated/absorbed by assets disposed or land held for sale
NET INCREASE / (DECREASE) IN NET CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
| ਹ | |
|---|---|
| (25,378) | (16,519) |
| (9,934) | (1,532) |
| (7,888) | 250 |
| (2,046) | (1,782) |
| 261 | (1,896) |
| (7) | 5 |
| 0 | 0 |
| (0) | (0) |
| (9,680) | (3,423) |
| (9,680) | 4.23 |
| (1,212) | 2,07 |
| 4,801 | 4,770 |
| 3,589 | 6,844 |
| (Thousands of Euros) | Capital | Share premium reserve |
Stock option reserve |
Reserve for employee benefils |
Accumulated losses and Other Reserves |
Group shareholders' equity ! |
Minority interest |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance as at 1 January 2016 | 169,077 | (1,523) | (288,974) | (121,421) | (121,421) | |||
| Share capital increase | (77,876) | ર્સક્ર | 77,187 | (130) | (130) | |||
| Reclass OCI Reserve opening value | (108) | 108 | ||||||
| Statement of comprehensive income result |
(235) | (17,734) | (18,269) | (18,269) | ||||
| Balance as at 30 June 2016 | 91,201 | ર રહેવ | (2,166) | (229,413) | (139,820) | (139,820) |
| (Thousands of Euros) | Capital | Share premium |
Stock option reserve reserve |
Reserve for employee benefits |
Accumulated losses and Other Reserves |
Statement of comprehensive income |
Minority interest |
Total 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance as at 1 January 2015 | 92,052 | (1,811) | (259,059) | (168,818) | (168,818) | |||
| Share capital increase Increases/(Decreases) |
||||||||
| Statement of comprehensive income result |
152 | (2,040) | (1,888) | (1,888) | ||||
| Balance as at 30 June 2015 | 92,052 | (1,659) | (261,099) | (170,707) | (170,707 |
| Income Statement (*) | Note | 30 June 2016 |
of which correlated parts |
30 June 2015 |
of which correlated parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (thousands of Euros) | |||||
| Revenue | 1 | 101,929 | 103,785 | ||
| Other income Purchase of materials and outsourced |
2 | 1,773 | 14,087 | ||
| services | 3 | 63,570 | 1,417 | 65,854 | 54 |
| Payroll and related costs | 4 | 21,246 | 1,270 | 19,893 | |
| Other operating (income) charges Write-down of receivables from |
5 | 20 | (4,667) | ||
| customers Restructuring costs and other write- |
6 | 4,863 | 12,014 | ||
| downs | 7 | 367 | 315 | ||
| Amortisation/ depreciation | 13-14 | 24,653 | 17,345 | ||
| Operating result | (11,017) | (2,687) | 7,119 | (54) | |
| Net financial income (charges) | (6,683) | (9,020) | |||
| Pre-tax result | 8 | (17,700) | (2,687) | (1,901) | (54) |
| Income taxes | (34) | (139) | |||
| Net result from operating activities (on-going) |
9 | (179734) | (2,687) | (2,040) | (54) |
| Result from assets disposed and/or held for sale |
|||||
| Net result for the period | 10 | (17,764) | (2,687) | (2,040) | (54) |
| Attributable to: | |||||
| - Result attributable to Parent Company | (17,734) | (2,040) | |||
| - Result attributable to Third Parties | |||||
| Earnings (Loss) per share | |||||
| Earnings per share from continuing and discontinued operations: |
|||||
| - Basic | (0.01) | (0.00) | |||
| - Diluted | (0.01) | (0.00) | |||
| Earnings per share from continuing operations: |
|||||
| - Basic | (0.01) | (0.00) | |||
| - Diluted | (0.01) | (0.00) |
(*) The financial data as at 30 June 2016 are not comparable with the data as at 30 June 2015, as they include the results of Aria Group, which merged into Tiscali Group on 31 December 2015
| Balance Sheet | Note | 30 June 2016 |
of which correlated parts |
31 December 2015 |
of which correlated parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (thousands of Euros) | |||||
| Non-current assets | |||||
| Intangible assets | 13 | 104,089 | 106,724 | ||
| Property, plant and equipment | 15 | 109,975 | 114,784 | ||
| Other financial assets | 15 | 10,976 | 11,496 | ||
| Deferred tax effect | 30 | 43 | |||
| 225,070 | 233,047 | ||||
| Current assets | |||||
| Inventories | 16 | 827 | 813 | ||
| Trade receivables current Other receivables and other |
17 | 34,355 | 35.316 | ||
| assets | 18 | 27,637 | 16,345 | ||
| Other current financial assets | 19 | 66 | 68 | ||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 20 | 6,844 | 4,770 | ||
| 69,729 | 57,412 | ||||
| Assets held for sale | (0) | (0) | |||
| Total Assets | 294,799 | 290,458 | |||
| Share Capital and reserves | |||||
| Share Capital | 91,201 | 169,077 | |||
| Stock option reserve | 559 | 559 | |||
| Results for previous years and Other reserves |
(213,846) | (272,017) | |||
| Results pertaining to the Group | (17,734) | (18,480) | |||
| Group shareholders' equity | 21 | (139,820) | 559 | (121,421) | |
| Minority interests | |||||
| Shareholders' equity attributable to minority interests |
22 | ||||
| Total Shareholders' equity | (139,820) | (121,421) | |||
| Non-current liabilities | 本文字体育在线上的主题 |
| Payables due to banks and to other lenders |
23 | 99 909 | 94,546 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payables for financial lease | 23 | 49,717 | 51,279 | ||
| Other non-current liabilities Liabilities for pension obligations and |
24 | 3,603 | 1,968 | ||
| staff severance indemnities | 25 | 6,795 | 6,296 | ||
| Provisions for risks and charges | 26 | 8,545 | 10,165 | ||
| Deferred tax provision | 27 | 583 | 628 | ||
| 169,152 | 164,882 | ||||
| Current liabilities Payables due to banks and to other lenders |
23 | 25,963 | 28,488 | ||
| Payables for financial lease | 23 | 3,771 | 3,470 | ||
| Trade Payables | 28 | 153 497 | 492 | 131,743 | 317 |
| Other current liabilities | 29 | 82,236 | 1 120 | 83,296 | 1,588 |
| 265,467 | 1,612 | 246,997 | 1,906 | ||
| Liabilities directly related to assets held for sale |
(0) | (0) | |||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholderes' equity |
294,799 | 2,171 | 290,458 | 1,906 |
Tiscali S.p.A. (hereinafter "Tiscall" or the "Company," and jointly with its subsidiaries the "Tiscali Group"), is a limited company incorporated in Italy and registry Office of Companies of Cagliari, located in Cagliari, Sa Illetta.
It is noted that the financial data at 30 June 2016 is not comparable with the data at 30 June 2015, as it includes the results of the Aria Group, whose integration with the Tiscali Group took place at 31 December 2015.
The Tiscali Group provides a wide range of services to its private and corporate customers, ranging from Internet access, dial-up and ADSL (fixed and mobile), to telecommunications solutions and services with high technological content.
These services, which also include voice services (including mobile telephony) and portal services, allow Tiscali to compete effectively with other market operators.
Because of its unbundling network (ULL), strong brand and its range of innovative services, Tiscali ranks in a high position in the Italian telecommunications market.
The half-year consolidated financial statements (hereinafter the "Financial Statements") have been prepared using the Euro as the reporting currency, as this is the currency used to conduct most of the Group's business. All values are rounded to thousands of Euro and, unless otherwise stated, foreign operations are included in the consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with the principles described in the following notes.
In preparing these Financial Statements, the directors have assumed the existence of business continuity and therefore have drafted the Financial Statements using the principles and criteria applicable to operating companies.
On 27 September 2016, the Board of Directors authorised the publication of these Financial Statements.
The Tiscali Group closed the first half of 2016 with a consolidated loss of EUR 17.7 million (influenced by the positive effect, amounting to EUR 1 million, of the non-recurring transactions concluded in the period) and negative consolidated shareholders' equity of EUR 139.8 million. Furthermore, as at 30 June 2016, the Group had a gross financial debt of EUR 179.4 million and current liabilities greater than current assets (non-financial) for EUR 172.9 million.
As of 31 December 2015, the consolidated loss amounted to roughly EUR 18.5 million (influenced by the positive effect, amounting to EUR 6,9 million, of the non-recurring transactions concluded in the period), with negative consolidated shareholders' equity of EUR 121.4 million. Furthermore, as at 31 December 2015, the Group had a gross financial debt of EUR 177.9 million and current liabilities greater than current assets (non-financial) for EUR 162.5 million.
During the year 2015, the Tiscali Group carried out a business combination with the Aria Group, finalized on 24 December 2015, through the merger of Aria Italia S.p.A., the parent holding company of Aria S.p.A., in Tiscali S.p.A. ("Fusion" or "Transaction") with effect from December 24, 2015
The Transaction allowed a strategic industrial-type merger among the industrial activities controlled by Tiscali with the activities headed by Aria, as well as allowing the Tiscali Group to reduce its debt, through full repayment of Facility A1 of the senior loan ("Group Facility Agreement" o "GFA"), made in December 2015.
Following the merger with Aria Group, dated 16 February 2016, the new Board of Directors took place and Riccardo Ruggiero was appointed as the new CEO, who was the CEO of Aria prior to the merger date.
In the first half of 2016, the Company undertook a series of actions to streamline the internal organizational structure of the Group and management processes in order to improve the Group's competitiveness and profitability, and to render cost structuring more efficient. The following initiatives are worth noting:
structure of Tiscali of existing physical channels of Aria - dealer and installers) for a more punctual monitoring of territorial areas and the most strategic market segments for the Company.
These major actions have already allowed to reach in the first six months of 2016 the following fundamental operating results in line with the new business strategy:
All the above activities implemented during the first half of 2016, spread out their effects in terms of increased efficiency and effectiveness and overall business management in the coming months.
Finally it should be noted that in May 2016, the Company signed a contract for the supply of connectivity services of the Public Administration within the Public Connectivity System (SPC) after the negative outcome of the appeals made to TAR by Telecom Italia and Fastweb. The contract has a duration of 7 years. The share of Tiscali, as determined by competition regulations, is equal to 60% of the total value of the order. Tiscali is now awaiting the final judgment by the Council of State on the appeal filed in final instance by Telecom Italia and Fastweb. This final decision is expected for the first months of 2017.
In addition, the signing of two important industrial agreements took place after June 2016 will bring new positive effects to the Tiscali Group in the coming months:
From the financial point of view, in the first half of 2016 the company completed the long-term financial debt restructuring process, resulting in a better definition of the financial structure of the same, a lengthening of maturities and a reduction in the overall cost of debt.
In particular, the Company carried out the following:
The new loan, signed on 29 June 2016, enabled full repayment of the loan resulting from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA) to Intesa Bank and the Hedge Funds, restructured in December 2014 and due to expire in September 2017.
The new loans significantly improves long-term debt structure of the group in that:
Considering the above, and the positive effects of the operations already completed and in progress in the coming months on the economic and financial structure of the Group, the Company's management has analysed the results of the first half, has verified that they are in line with expectations laid down in the Business Plan drawn up for the purpose of financial statements in 2015 and approved by the Board on 28 March 2016, and thus confirmed the validity of the Business Plan.
It should be noted that the Business Plan prudently did not include the performance of the Consip contract, and management can confirm that exclusion, given that the appeal of some competitors before the State Council is currently pending. In any case, the Company believes that, in spite of the execution of the SPS contract, assimilation of financial resources, realization of the Business Plan and subsequent events at the same, such as the agreement with Huawei and the issue of the convertible bonds and converting, render available sufficient financial resources to implement in the most efficient manner the framework contract with Consip.
In this context, and considering the above, the achievement of a balanced equity, income and the Group's financial results in the long run, however, are subject to the achievement of the results expected in the Business Plan and, therefore, on whether the forecasts and assumptions contained therein related, in general, the evolution of the telecommunications market and, in particular, to achieve the growth targets set in a market characterized by strong competitive pressure, as well as with reference to achieve a complete and effective integration of industrial, commercial and administrative facilities of Aria Group in Tiscali, which allows the obtaining of business objectives and the alleged.
The management, in the context of preparing the financial statements at 31 December 2016 and the the 2017 Budget 2017, will carry out a review of the Business Plan.
The Board of Directors highlighted that the Group has:
The Directors, highlight, as they also did during the preparation of financial statements for the year 2015, the persistence of material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt on the Tiscali Group's ability to continue to operate on the assumption of going concern, ascribable to achieving the objectives of the 2016-2021 Plan, with particular reference to the evolution of the telecommunications market to achieve its growth targets, relating in particular to Ultrabroadband LTE services, the main development area planned in the Plan, in a market characterized by strong competitive pressure, as well as with reference to the expected synergies resulting from the integration of the Aria Group in Tiscali;
The Directors, in analysing what has been achieved in the context of the path aimed at allowing the Group to achieve in the long run a balanced equity, financial and economic, recognize that the current date and in the presence of criticalities intrinsic to the 2016-2021 Plan - despite the Group debt reduction that took place in the year 2015 and the financial operations carried out during the 2016 uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group's ability to continue to operate under the assumption of going concern but, have the reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources after making the necessary checks and assessing the uncertainties identified in light of the elements described, confident in the capacity of being able to implement the
The "Result from assets disposed and for held for sale" as of 30 June 2016 was zero.
The result per share of "continuing operations" is close to zero and is calculated by dividing the net loss for the period attributable to ordinary shareholders of the parent company, which amounted to EUR 17.7 million, by the weighted average number of ordinary shares in circulation during the period, which amounted to 2,503,408,618.
Given the presence of impairment indicators, an impairment test was carried out to reveal any loss in the value of the assets, as required by IAS 36 and reiterated by the joint document from the Bank of Italy / Consob / ISVAP. 4 dated 3 March 2010 regarding the application of IAS/IFRS principles.
The impairment test on assets was performed by comparing the book value of the assets as of 30 June 2016 and their value in use, determined based on the following key elements.
The Group has identified the Cash-Generating Units within the segments set forth in the segment reporting. The impairment test on assets was performed with respect to the cash-generating units identified.
The value in use of the Cash-Generating Unit (CGU) was determined by discounting the cash flows for the years 2016-2021 resulting from the 2016-2021 Tiscali Group Plan (as defined in the Note entitled " Events and uncertainties with regard to business continuity"), approved by the Board of Directors on 25 March 2016. In order to carry out the impairment test on assets, a timespan of four years and half (from 01.07.2016 to 31.12.2020) and the 2020 normalized cash flow were used for the purposes of determining the terminal value.
The main assumptions used to estimate the recoverable amount are as follows:
The WACC was calculated as follows:
Based on these parameters, the WACC used for the impairment testing is equal to 8,34%.
The impairment test result shows a positive difference between the recoverable value and the book value (the carrying value), thus the Group believes that it s not necessary to write down any of the balance sheet assets.
With reference to the current scenario and the results of the impairment tests performed for the period ended on 30 June 2016, a sensitivity analysis of the estimated recoverable value was carried out using the discounted cash flow method. It is believed that the discount rate is a key parameter in assessing the recoverable value; a 1% increase in that rate would lower the positive difference between the estimated recoverable value and the book value. That difference would remain positive. A sensitivity analysis was also carried out on the long-term growth rate: similarly, a 1% increase of that rate would reduce the positive difference between the estimated recoverable value and book value; however, this difference would continue to be positive.
Taking into account the current market situation, certain considerations on the presence of external impairment indicators were made, with regard to evidence from the financial market. For that purpose, the market capitalisation of the Tiscali Group does not give rise to elements other than those resulting from the impairment test.
The movements of intangible assets during the first semester of 2016 are as follows:
| Intangible Assets | Computers, Licenses Broadband software and development costs |
and similar rights |
service activation costs |
Other intangible assets |
Intangible assets in course of acquisition and payments made in |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Thousand Euro) | advance | |||||
| NET VALUE | ||||||
| 31 December 2015 | 73.100 | 28.072 | 1 172 | 4.379 106.724 | ||
| June 30, 2016 | 69.059 | 28.515 | 1.773 | 4.744 104.089 | ||
All investments as of 30 June 2016 totalled approximately EUR 15 million
The balance of Licenses and similar rights totalled EUR 69.1 million, is including:
provisions in the 2016-2021 Plan, have the reasonable expectation that the Group have adequate resources even in case of a favorable outcome of the State Council on the Consip Race, to continue the operational existence for the foreseeable future and, therefore, have adopted the going concern assumption in the preparation of these financial statements.
This conclusion is, of course, effected by subjective judgment, which compared, with respect to the events described above, the degree of likelihood of their fulfilment compared to the contrary situation. It must be noted that the forecast underlying the decision of the Board is likely to be challenged by events. Precisely because the Board of Directors is aware of the inherent limitations of this conclusion, it will monitor constantly the evolution of the factors considered (as well as any circumstances of significance), so that necessary measures can be promptly taken.
In line with the above and in line with the objectives of the company will also commit, in the coming months, to focusing on Core Business elements to strengthen its presence in the Italian fixed and mobile BroadBand market. This will be due to:
There will also be further focus in the identification of all actions required to increase the overall degree of the company's efficiency and the consequent reduction in costs. A further reduction of costs is expected due to:
o the acquisition, in the second half of the year, of significant benefits on the cost of staff downstream of the initiatives undertaken in the first half of the year, described in the preceding paragraphs;
Further efficiency measures implemented in terms of general operating costs.
These consolidated condensed semi-annual financial statements have been prepared in compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and adopted by the European Union. The IFRS also include all the revised International Accounting Standards (IAS) and all interpretations of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC), formerly the Standing Interpretations Committee (SIC).
The form and content comply with the disclosure requirements of International Accounting Standard No. 34, "Interim Financial Reporting" (IAS 34), in compliance with Art. 154-ter of Legislative Decree No. 58 dated 24 February 1998 (TUF) and subsequent amendments and additions, while also taking into account other CONSOB communications and resolutions on the subject.
The notes have been prepared in abbreviated form, as permitted by IAS 34 and therefore do not include all the information required for annual financial statements prepared in accordance with FRS; as such, the objective of the following interim operational and business management report, prepared in accordance IAS 34, is to provide an update to the financial and economic situation provided in the consolidated financial statements dated 31 December 2014.
The Condensed Consolidated Semi-annual Financial Statements, as required by the relevant regulations, have been prepared on a consolidated basis and are the subject of a limited audit by Ernst & Young S.p.A.
The consolidation principles, accounting principles and calculation methods used in preparing the semi-annual report are consistent with those applied in the financial statements dated 30 June 2015 and the consolidated financial statements dated 31 December 2015, which have been presented for comparative purposes and may be consulted for additional information. For a better comparison, the figures for the comparative periods have been adjusted where necessary.
Preparing the semi-annual financial statements and related notes in accordance with IFRS requires Management to make certain estimates and, in certain cases, making assumptions when applying accounting principles. When preparing the semi-annual financial statements, the significant judgments made by the company's managers regarding the application of accounting policies and the key sources of uncertain estimates correspond to those that also applied in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015.
The accounting principles applied by the Group in preparing the consolidated semi-annual financial statements dated 30 June 2016 are consistent with those used in preparing the consolidated financial statements dated 31 December 2015, as indicated above, except for the adoption of the new standards, amendments and interpretations that went into effect 1 January 2016, as briefly described below.
· Amendments to IAS 19 - Employee benefits - defined benefit plans: contributions from employees or third parties. These changes apply to the contributions that employees or third parties pay to the defined benefits pension funds to simplify the accounting in specific circumstances.
There are no effects due to the application of such changes.
· "Improvements" to IFRS 2010-2012 Cycle (issued by the IASB in December 2013).
The IASB has issued a series of amendments to 7 standards in force in particular regarding the definition of vesting conditions in IFRS 2 - Share-based payments, the accounting of the contingent consideration in a business combination in IFRS 3 - business combinations, the aggregation of operating segments and reconciliation of total assets of reportable segments compared to the total assets of the entity in IFRS 8 - operating segments, the recalculation of proportional accumulated amortization in IAS 16 - Property, plant and equipment and in IAS 38 - intangible assets, and identifying and certain disclosures relating to key managers in IAS 24 - Financial Statements of transactions with related parties.
There are no significant impacts on the financial statements or on the Group's disclosure due to the application of such changes.
The amendments to IFRS 11 specifies the accounting treatment to be applied in case of acquisition of interests in joint operations that constitute a business as defined in IFRS 3.
These changes have had no impact on the Group's financial statements since the period there has been no acquisition of interests in joint operations.
With these changes, the IASB wanted to clarify that the use of methods based on revenues for calculating depreciation is not correct because the revenue generated by an asset reflects factors other than the consumption of the future economic benefits embodied in the asset itself. This consumption must be the basic principle for the calculation of depreciation.
These changes have no impact on the financial statements because the Group does not use methods based on revenues to calculate depreciation.
Following these changes, it will be allowed as an option the use of the equity method in accounting for stakes in subsidiaries, including associates and joint ventures in separate financial statements with retrospective application.
The IASB has issued a series of amendments to four principles in place, including, in particular, the following aspects: changes to the reimbursement method in IFRS 5 Non-current assets held for sale and discontinued operations, service level agreements and applicability of the amendments to IFRS 7 to the interim financial reports in IFRS 7 financial Instruments: disclosures, discount rate to be applied in IAS 19 employee Benefits, disclosure of information presented in other parts of the interim financial reports in IAS 34 interim financial Reporting.
There is no impact on the Group's financial statements arising from such changes.
Amendments to IAS 1, disclosure-related project initiative, aim to clarify and improve the requirements of IAS 1 itself, rather than to modify it substantially. Following the application of these amendments, in the statement of comprehensive income the share of other comprehensive income statement related to associates and joint ventures should also be distinguished among the items that may or may not be reclassified to the income statement.
The scope of the Group's consolidation includes the financial statements of Tiscali S.p.A. (Parent Company) and the companies, over which it exercises direct control, beginning on the date the company was acquired and until the date that control ceases.
There were no changes in the Group's scope of consolidation.
The fully consolidated companies are listed below and under the note entitled List of subsidiaries included in the scope of consolidation.
| Revenue | න විට හැකි නමු දා ලැ 1st half of 201 |
1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Revenue | 를 볼 때는 글 | 103.185 |
| Total | ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﺤ | 103,785 |
Revenue for the first semester of 2016 decreased compared to the previous semester. Revenue for the Aria Group totalled EUR 8.8 million. For more information on the decline in revenue, please refer to the Interim report on operations.
| Other income | to for the first to the station of the stars and the first to the first to the first to the first to the first to the first to the first to the first to the first to the firs 1st half of 2016 1st half of 2015 |
|
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Other income | 14.087 | |
| Total | www.book.mrmil woman | 14.087 |
Other income includes the release of the pertinent portion, for the first half of 2016, of the capital gain generated via the sale and lease back transaction involving the Cagliari headquarters (Sa Illetta) amounting to about EUR 1.1 million.
| Purchases of materials and outsorced services | 1st half of 2016 | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Cost of leased transport/freight and interconnection lines | 37,330 | 38,562 |
| Cost of using third party assets | 2.553 | 2,682 |
| Cost of portal services | 2,797 | 4.948 |
| Marketing costs | 3.773 | 4,279 |
| Other services | 17.117 | 15,383 |
| Total | 63 570 | 65,854 |
| 1st half of | ||
|---|---|---|
| Payroll and related costs | 1st half of 2016 | 2015 |
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Wages and salaries | 14.019 | 12,930 |
| Other personnel costs | -220 | 6,962 |
| Total | 19,893 |
The increase in personnel costs was due to a lower utilization of the "Contratto di Solidarietà", lower capitalization on OTTprojects and other projects, other than the entrance of new management in the Group since February 2016. The amount of personnel costs ascribable to Aria Group is about EUR 0,4 million.
There were 1,002 employees as of 30 June 2016, 48 of whom related to the Aria Group. The breakdown by category and the corresponding balance as of 30 June 2016 are shown below:
| 30 June 20 | 30 June 2016 | |
|---|---|---|
| Managers | 19 | |
| Middle Managers | 75 | |
| Office staff | 801 | |
| Blue-collar workers | ||
| Total |
| Other operating (income) charges | 1st half of 2016 | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Other operating (income) charges | 4.667 | |
| Total | 4.667 |
| Write-down of receivables from customers | 1st half of 20% | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Loss on receivables | 5102 | |
| Provisions for bad debt | 6.912 | |
| Total | 12.014 |
The write-down of receivables from customers is totalling EUR 12 million as of 30 June 2015) and was entirely due to the provision for bad debt. The amount attributable to the Aria Group is amounting to EUR 1.4 million.
Please refer to the Note entitled "Trade Receivables" for addition information.
| Restructuring costs and other write-downs | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|
| Thousands in Euros) | |
| Reorganizing costs and other devaluations | 315 |
| Total | 315 |
The Restructuring costs and other write downs includes provisions for restructuring costs incurred by the Group that mainly pertain to the following:
The Net Financial income (charges) , as shown below, is totaling a negative balance of EUR 6.8 million.
| Net financial income (charges) | 1st half of 2016 | 1st half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Financial income | ||
| Interest on bank deposits Other financial income |
1 037 | 12 ರಾ |
| Total | 1.046 | 18 |
| Financial charges Interest and other charges due to banks |
4 855 | 6.515 |
| Other financial charges | 2 874 | 2.523 |
| Total | 7.729 | 9.038 |
| Net financial income (charges) | 6.683) | (9.020) |
The balance of Net financial income (charges) amounts to approximately EUR 7.7 million, mainly including the following items:
| Income taxes | 1st half of 2016 | 1st halfof 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Current taxes | 142 | |
| Deferred taxes | (2) | |
| Total |
The balance includes the cost for current IRAP taxes owed by Italian companies.
The overall increase in Plant and equipment, amounting to ERU 1.4 million, reflects the investments in the development of the network infrastructure. The investments for the Aria Group totalled EUR 0.8 million.
Other tangible assets, whose balance is amounting to EUR 1.4 million, are mainly attributable to Tiscali Italia S.p.A. and include furniture and fixtures, electronic and electromechanical office equipment, and vehicles.
The Tangible assets in course of acquisition and payments made in advance has a balance of EUR 1.9 million (of which EUR 0.4 million pertaining to the Aria Group) and mainly includes investments in network infrastructure.
| Other non-current financial assets | 30 June 2016 31 december 2015 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Security deposits | 7.088 | 7.586 |
| Other receivables | 2 035 | 2.036 |
| Investments in other companies | 1.853 | 1 874 |
| Totale | 10 976 | 11.496 |
Security deposits mainly pertain to quarantees paid for the CONSIP Tender in the amount of EUR 6.5 million, and security deposits paid to third parties that total EUR 0.4 million, both of which are attributable to Tiscali Italia S.p.A. and security deposits attributable to the Aria Group for EUR 0.1 million.
Investments in other companies are mainly represented by Janna S.c.p.a., a consortium that manages an undersea fibre-optic cable laid between Sardinia and the Italian mainland, and between Sardinia and Sicily. The other financial receivables pertain to the same consortium, Janna S.c.p.a.
As of 30 June 2016, inventories totalled EUR 0.8 million and primarily pertain to contracted work that is still in progress on the B2B projects.
| Trade Receivable | 30 June 2016 | 31 december 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Thousands in Euros) | ||
| Trade Receivable | 66 249 | 67,709 |
| Bad debt provision | (32,393) | |
| Total | 35,316 |
Trade receivable as of 30 June totalled EUR 34.4 million (of which EUR 4.3 million pertaining to the Aria Group), net of write-downs totalling EUR 31.9 million, were generated by sales of internet services,
billings on network access services, inverse interconnection traffic, advertising revenues and services to business and telephone services provided by the Group.
Analyses on the recoverability of receivables are carried out periodically by adopting a specific policy for determining the allowance for bad debt accounts that also references and historical trends.
The Group has no particular concentration of credit risk, as the credit exposure is spread over a very large customer base.
| Other receivables and other current assets | 30 June 2016 | 31 december 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euro)) | ||
| Other receivables | 16 2 7 1 | 5.151 |
| Accrued Income | 2 | |
| Prepaid expenses | 11.192 | |
| Total | 24637 | 16.345 |
Other receivables amounted to approximately EUR 16.3 million, mainly refer to:
The Prepaid expenses, amounting to EUR 11.4 million (of which EUR 1.7 million related to the Aria Group), includes costs already incurred and deferred to the next half-year, primarily related to multi-line rental contracts , hardware and software maintenance costs, insurance and advertising
| Other current financial assets | 30 June 2016 31 December 2015 |
|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euros) | |
| Guarantee deposits | 60 |
| Other receivables | 8 |
| Total | 68 |
Cash and cash equivalents at 30 June 2016 amounted to EUR 6.8 million and includes the Group liquid resources, essentially held in bank current accounts. There are no time deposits. For more details, see the cash flow statement.
| Shareholders' equity | 30 June 2016 31 December 2015 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euros) | ||
| Share capital Reserve Stock Options |
91 201 559 |
169.077 |
| Accumulated losses and other reserves | (213.846) | (272.017) |
| Result for the period | (17.734) | (18.480) |
| Total shareholders' equity | 139.820) | (121.421 |
The changes that occurred in the different equity items are detailed in the relevant prospectus.
The share capital amounted to EUR 91.2 million as at 30 June 2016, corresponding to 3.145.281.893 shares with no par value. On 28 April 2016 the Assembly adopted a resolution ex'art.2446 Civil Code and consequent amendment of Article 5 of the Bylaws for the full coverage of the accumulated losses at December 31, 2015 , equal to EUR 77,875,899.78 through the reduction of the share capital for the same amount and with the consequent reduction of the same from EUR 169,076,822.67 to EUR 91,200,922.90.
The equity attributable to minority interests is zero to 30 June 2016.
The Group's net financial position is as follows:
| Financial situation | 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of Euro) | ||
| A. Cash and bank deposits | 6,844 | 4,770 |
| B. Other cash equivalents | ||
| C. Securities held for trading | ||
| D. Cash and cas equivalent (A) + (B) + (C) | 6,844 | 4,770 |
| E. Current financial receivables | 6 | 8 |
| F. Non-current financial receivables | ||
| G. Current bank payables | 13.409 | 11,593 |
| H. Current portion of non-current debt | 12 553 | 16,895 |
| I. Other current financial payables | 3,876 | 3,612 |
| J. Current financial debt (G) + (H) + (I) | 29,839 | 32,100 |
| K. Net current financial debt (J) - (E) - (D) - (F) | 22,988 | 27,322 |
| L. Non current bank debt | 99,909 | 94,546 |
| M. Bonds issued | ||
| N. Other non-current payables | 49.717 | 51,279 |
| O. Non-current financial debt (N) + (L) + (M) | 149,626 | 145,826 |
| P. Net financial debt (K) + (O) | 17.2 615 | 173,148 |
The above table has been drawn up in light of Consob communication no. DEM / 6064293 of July 28, 2006.
31 December 30 June 2016 2015 (Million Euro) Consolidated net financial debt 165,5 165,6 7,6 Other cash equivalents and non-current financial receivables 7,1 Consolidated net financial debt prepared according to Consob communication no. DEM / 6064293 of July 28, 2006 172,6 173,1
The following table shows the reconciliation between the net financial position prepared in accordance with Consob communication and Net Financial Position reported in the Interim Report.
Gross financial debt (current and non-current), amounting to 179.5 million Euros, is mainly made up of the items shown in the following table:
Breakdown of current and non-current debt
| Breakdown of current and non-current debt | 30 June 2016 | Current Amount |
Non current Amount |
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| ( Thousands of Euro) | |||
| Senior debt | 86 167 | 4.338 | 81.829 |
| Rigensis loan | 18:350 | 3.000 | 15.850 |
| hank debts | 20.856 | 18.625 | 2.231 |
| Total senior debt and other debts to banks | 125 - 172 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 17 | 25.963 | 99.909 |
| Total senior debt and other debts to banks | |||
| Sale & Leaseback Sa Illetta | 52634 | 3.399 | 49.235 |
| Other financial leasing | 854 | 373 | 482 |
| Total debts to leasing companies | FR 488 | 3.771 | 49.717 |
| Other borrowings | 104 | 104 | 0 |
| Total debt | 179.465 | 29.839 | 149,626 |
The principal items mentioned in the above table are as follows:
• senior debt under the Refinancing Agreement signed on 29 June 2016 with Intesa San Paolo and BPM to EUR 86.2 million. The new debt, amounting to nominal EUR 88 million, allowed the full repayment of the previous debt arising from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA), as restructured on December 23, 2014, due on September 2017.;
On June 29, 2016, the Tiscali Group signed a refinancing agreement with Intesa San Paolo and BPM whose object is the senior debt of the Group in the medium and long term.
The new loan of EUR 88 million, of which EUR 53 million towards Intesa San Paolo and EUR 35 million towards Banca Popolare di Milano, allowed the full repayment of the senior debt arising from the Group Facility Agreement (GFA) held by Banca Intesa and certain Hedge Funds, restructured in 2014 and expiring in September 2017 .
The main features of the new loan are:
| Loan | Amount | Maturity | Financing institutions |
Borrower | Guarantors |
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| First Facility | 35 ml | March 2022 Banca Popolare di Tiscali Italia S.p.A. Milano S.c.a.r.l. |
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| Second Facility | 52,9 ml Eur | March 2022 | S.p.A. | Intesa Sanpaolo Tiscali Italia S.p.A. Tiscali S.p./ | |
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The new loan provides for the compliance by the Company of certain financial requirements (the "Financial covenants") on a consolidated basis of the Tiscali Group, defined on the signing of the contract.
The covenants in question are as follows: (i) ratio of net debt / EBITDA; (li) Debt service cover ratio; (lii) EBITDA / net interest (ii) investment limits (CAPEX). Further covenants relating to non-financial data have been set (n. Registered / active users, Blended ARPU, number of installed LTE antennas)
The verification of these covenants is done semi-annually on June 30 and December 31 of each year, with the first date of the verification provided for December 31, 2016
The new loan provides some "event of default" in case the following events would take place: (i) payment default; (ii) breach of the undertakings under the finance documents; (iii) breach of financial covenants; (iv) misrepresentation; (v) non-execution or breach of the documents relating to the Guarantees; (vi) material cross-default; (vii) material audit qualification or warnings; (viii) insolvency, liquidation and dissolution of material Group companies; (ix) opening of bankruptcy proceedings; (x) implementation of material enforced procedures against the Group; (xi) loss of material litigation; (xi) cessation of business of material Group companies; (xiii) the occurrence of an event having a material adverse effect on the Group business and/or the Lenders; (xiv) illegality; (xv) breach of the key-manager clause.
Finance leases for the Group refer to agreements entered into by the subsidiary Tiscali Italia S.p.A. and the Aria Group, include:
In relation to the financial debt "Sales & Lease Back " on the Sa Illetta, in the year 2015, the Group signed an Amending Agreement of the Leasing Contract with a leasing pool driven by Mediocredito which led to a reshaping of the same contract and a lower capital reimbursement from the year 2015 until 2017, amounting approximately to EUR 4.2 million .
Current and non-current financial liabilities at 30 June 2016 are indicated in the following table:
| Current and non-current financial liabilities | 30 June 2016 | 31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| ('000 Euros) | ||
| Non-current financial liabilities | ||
| Payables to banks and to other lenders: | ||
| Payables to banks | 99,909 | 94,546 |
| Payables for financial leases (short term) | 49.7176 | 51,279 |
| Total | 149.626 | 145,826 |
| Current financial liabilities | ||
| Payables to banks and to other lenders: | ||
| Payables to banks | 25 96 8 | 28,488 |
| Payables for financial leases (short term) | 3771 | 3.470 |
| Total | 29 734 | 31,958 |
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| Payables to suppliers | റ | |
| Other liabilities | SER 2 1,7 | 1.87 |
| Tota | 13 2 2 2 3 23 |
The item "Other liabilities" for EUR 1.7 million primarily includes:
The following prospect highlights the transactions occurred in this period:
| ('000 Euros) | 31 December 2015 |
Provisions Utilisations | Payments to funds (*) |
Actuarial (gain)/loss 2016 |
30 June |
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| Staff severance liabilities | 6.295 | 1,174 | (212) | (998) | (535) 6,794 | |
| Total | 6,295 | 1,174 | (212) | (998) | (535) 6,794 |
(*) This relates to payments to treasury funds and other supplementary pension funds
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|---|---|---|---|
| Provision for risks and 31 December 2015 charges |
Provisions | Utilisations | 30 June 2016 |
The Provision for risks and charges at 30 June 2016 stands at EUR 8.5 million and primarily includes:
The utilizations made during the first half of 2016 were mainly attributable to:
· 0.3 million for payments related to the restructuring of Aria Group personnel;
· 0.8 million for the release of restructuring charges accrued in excess in the Aria Group accounts as at 31 December 2015;
| Provision for deferred tax |
31 December 2015 Provisions | Utilisations | 30 June |
|---|---|---|---|
| ('000 Euros) | 628 | (45 | 283 |
| Total | 628 | 45) | 583) |
The Provision of EUR 0.6 million for deferred tax includes the recognition of the tax effect on the capital gains arising from the allocation of the amount paid for the acquisition of Aria Group.
| Trade payables | 016 - 31 December 2015 |
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| ('000 Euros) | ||
| Trade payables | 131,743 | |
| Total | 131,743 |
Trade Payables refer to commercial liabilities for the supply of telephone and data traffic, the supply of materials, technologies and commercial services, and include EUR 18.7 million for Aria Group.
| Other current liabilities | 30 June 2016 31 December 2015 |
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| Accrued expenses | 5.541 4.077 |
| Deferred Income | 38 383 40.059 |
| Other liabilities | 38.312 39.160 |
| Total | 82.236 83,296 |
Accrued expenses are mainly related to personnel costs.
Deferred income of EUR 38.3 million primarily relate to:
The item "Other liabilities", amounting to EUR 38.3 million primarily includes:
On 16 February 2016 the combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Tiscali S.p.A., taking place in Cagliari, approved the 2015-2019 Stock Option plan for the benefit of Renato Soru, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the associated proposal of delegation of powers to the Board for the increase of capital to service the above-mentioned Plan. The delegation relates to the issue of a maximum of 251,622,551 ordinary shares to meet the maximum of 251,622,551 options to be reserved for the Chairman, Renato Soru, as beneficiary of the 2015-2019 Stock Option Plan. As detailed in the "Prospectus on the Tiscali S.p.A. 2015-2019 Stock Option Plan", the assigned options become exercisable in three tranches:
Subsequently, on 12 May 2016, the Tiscali S.p.A. Board of Directors approved the 2016-2021 Stock Option Plan, relating to ordinary shares of Tiscali S.p.A. reserved to the Group's Chief Executive Officer and management and the associated proposal for an Increase in Capital, in separate issues, through the issue of a total maximum of 314,528,189 ordinary shares with no nominal value, to meet the maximum 314,528,189 options subscription of company's ordinary shares to be reserved for the Group's Chief Executive Officer and management as beneficiaries of the 2016-2021 Stock Option Plan, excluding option rights, pursuant to Art. 2441, sub-sections 5 and 6 of the civil code. Consequent amendment of Art. 5 of the Bylaws, pertaining and consequent resolutions, delegations of powers.
During the normal course of its business, Tiscali Group is involved is certain legal and arbitration proceedings, as well as being subject to tax audit procedures.
Below is a summary of the main proceedings in which the Group is involved.
In June 2011, Tiscali Italia sued, at the Court of Milan, TeleTu S.p.A., demanding compensation for damages of approximately EUR 10 million caused by illegal conduct carried out by the defendant in the transfer of users in the period January 2009 - April 2011. The defendant filed a counterclaim for alleged similar acts carried out by Tiscali Italia, demanding, in turn, compensation for damages of over EUR 9 million. In July 2016, the CTU was launched. The case cannot be foreseen.
In April 2016, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court rejected the appeal filed by Telecom Italia and Fastweb against the awarding procedure of the SPC Consip tender to Tiscali Italia.
The losing parties appealed to the State Council against the decision of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, which set the trial in a single hearing to be held on 19 January 2017
In March 2016, World Online NV, part of the Tiscali Group, has entered into a settlement agreement with certain financial institutions in connection with the litigation brought by former shareholders of Telinco Ltd, the employees and management of Telinco Ltd and some of their family members and employees.
The agreement involved a total cash out of EUR 0.3 million, which occurred in March 2016, and puts an end to the dispute with the Telinco Ltd shareholders above mentioned.
In September 2013, Tiscali S.p.A. received from the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cagliari, pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001, a notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations for alleged false corporate communications relating to the financial statements from 2008 to 2012. The subsidiary Tiscali Italia received the same notice in January 2014. The supposed offences alleged against the company and some directors, set out in Article 2622 of the Italian Civil Code, refer to alleged incorrect accounting entries for provisions for doubtful debts. In June 2016, upon the outcome of the preliminary hearing, the two companies were committed for trial, as well as the accused directors. The Companies are preparing the necessary defensive activities for the trial that will commence in October 2016.
Segment reporting is presented on the basis of the following segments:
| 30 June 2016 | Access (BTC and BTB |
Media & Advertising |
Corporate | Other Adjustments/ cance lations |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ('000 Euros) | connectivity) | |||||
| Revenues | ||||||
| From third parties | 95.096 | 6.801 | 32 | 101.929 | ||
| Intragroup | 3.606 | 1.146 | 2 672 | (7.423) | ||
| Total revenues | 98.702 | 7-946 | 2.704 | (7.423) | 101.929 | |
| Operating result | (9.880) | (667) | (3.857) | (34) | 3.421 | (11.017) |
| N Net financial income (charges) | (6,683) | |||||
| Pre-tax result | (17,700) | |||||
| Income Taxes | (34) | |||||
| Net result from operating activities (on-going | (17,734) | |||||
| Result from assets disposed an/or held for sale | ||||||
| Net result for the period | (17,734) | |||||
| 30 June 2016 | Access (BTC and BTB |
Media & Advertising |
Corporate | Other Adjustments/ cance lations |
Total | |
| ('000 Euros) | connectivity) | |||||
| Revenues | ||||||
| From third parties | 93,384 | 10,355 | 103,785 | |||
| 45 | ||||||
| Intragroup | 3,735 | 2,022 | 1,974 | (7,731) | ||
| Total revenues | 97,120 | 12,377 | 2,019 | (7,731) | 103,785 | |
| Operating result | (1,722) | (415) | (3,646) | (19) | 12,090 | 7,119 |
| Net financial income (charges) | (9,020) | |||||
| Pre-tax result | (1,901) | |||||
| Income Taxes | (139) | |||||
| Net result from operating activities (on-going) | (2,040) | |||||
| Result from assets disposed an/or held for sale |
Pursuant to Consob Resolution no. 15519 of 27 July 2006, it should be noted that non-recurring operations with a total positive effect on the profit and loss account of the Group of EUR 1 million, including mainly the positive effects from write-offs of commercial positions, were recorded in the first semester of 2016.
The following table shows the figures relating to non-recurring operations in the consolidated profit and loss account:
| Non-Recurring Transactions | 1st half of 2016 |
|---|---|
| Revenues | 0.0 |
| Other income | 0.0 |
| Purchase of materials and outsourced services | (1.5) |
| Payroll and related costs | 0.0 |
| Other operating (income) charges | 0.0 |
| Adjusted gross operating result (EBITDA) | 1.5 |
| Write-down of receivables from customers | 0.0 |
| Gross operating result (EBITDA) | 1.5 |
| Amortisation, depreciation, restructuring costs and other write-downs |
0.4 |
| Operating result (EBIT) | 1.0 |
| Net financial income (charges) | 0.0 |
| Pre-tax result | 1.0 |
| Income taxes | |
| Net result from operating activities (on- going) |
1.0 |
| Result from assets disposed and/or held for sale |
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| Net result | 1.0 |
Pursuant to Consob Communication of 28 July 2006, it should be noted that during 2016 the Company did not undertaken atypical and/or unusual operations, as defined by the same Communication.
The Group has no significant dealings with non-consolidated companies.
During the first half of 2016, the Tiscali Group had some dealings with related parties, regulated under market conditions (arms' length basis), taking into account the characteristics of the goods and services provided.
The table below summarises the balance sheet and income statement values recordered in the Tiscali Group's consolidated half-year financial statements at 30 June 2016 deriving from dealings with related parties.
The most significant values on 30 June 2016, summarised by service provider, are as follows:
| Income Statement Values | Notes | First half of 2016 |
First half of 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of EUR) | |||
| Studio Racugno | (36) | ||
| Monteverdi S.r.I. | ી છે. | (18) | |
| Board of Statutory Auditors and Directors | 2.660 | ||
| Total Suppliers of Materials and Services | 24657 | (54) | |
| Total | 54 |
| Balance Sheet Values | Notes | 30 June 2016 |
31 December 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Thousands of EUR) | |||
| Studio Racugno | (59) | ||
| Monteverdi S.r.I. | |||
| Board of Statutory Auditors and Directors | 1.568) | (333) | |
| Total Suppliers of Materials and Services | 1,612) | (392) | |
| Reserve Stock Options | (229) | ||
| Total shareholders' equity | (559) | ||
| Total | 24 761) | (392) |
A list of subsidiary companies included in the consolidation area is reported below.
| Name | Location | Percentage shareholding |
|---|---|---|
| Tiscali S.p.A. | ltaly | |
| Tiscali Italia S.p.A. | ltaly | 100.00% |
| Veesible S.r.I. | ltaly | 100.00% |
| Indoona S.r.I. | ltaly | 100.00% |
| Istella Sri | Italy | 100.00% |
| Streamago Inc. | USA | 97.1% |
| Aria S.p.A. | Italy | 100.00% |
| Media PA S.r.I. | Italy | 100.00% |
| Tiscali Holdings UK Ltd | ( )K | 100.00% |
| World Online International NV | Netherlands | 99.50% |
| Tiscali International BV | Netherlands | 99.50% |
| Tiscali Financial Services SA | Luxemburg | 99.50% |
| Tiscali Deutschland GmbH | Germany | 99.50% |
| Tiscali GmbH | Germany | 99.50% |
| Tiscali Verwaltungs Gmbh | Germany | 99.50% |
| Tiscali Business GmbH | Germany | 99.50% |
| Tiscali International Network B.V. | Netherlands | 99.50% |
List of equity investments in other companies recorded in the non-current financial activities.
| Mix S.r.I. | ltalv |
|---|---|
| Janna S.c.p.a. | Italy |
| Consorzio Cosmolab | Italy |
| Tiscali Poland Sp Z.O.O. | Poland |

With regard to events subsequent to the closure of the first half of the year, please refer to the relevant paragraph of the report on operations.
Cagliari, 27 September 2016
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Common
The Chief Executive Officer
Riccardo Ruggiero
The undersigned, Riccardo Ruggiero as Chief Executive Officer, and Pasquale Lionetti, as the officer in charge of preparing the company's accounting documents for Tiscali S.p.A., certify, pursuant to At. 154b, sub-sections 3 and 4, of Legislative Decree no. 58 of 24 February 1998:
Furthermore, it is stated that the condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the half-year period to 30 June 2016:
Finally, it is furthermore stated that the interim report includes a reliable analysis of the important events that occurred in the first six months of the financial year and of their effects on the abbreviated consolidated financial statements for the interim period, together with a description of the main risks and uncertainties relating to the remaining six months of the interim report also includes a reliable analysis of information concerning related-party transactions.
| Cagliari, 27 September 2016 | |
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| The Chief Executive Officer | The Officer Responsible for preparing |
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| Riccardo Ruggiero | Pasquale Lionetti |
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| Shared access | Technique of unbundled access to a local network, in which the former monopoly operator rents part of the frequency spectrum to other operators: the operator can supply broadband services in this section of the spectrum, while the former monopoly operator continues to supply telephony services on the unused portion of spectrum . |
| ADSL | Acronym for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, an asymmetric (the receiving bandwidth is greater than the bandwidth available for transmission) DSL technology which allows high-speed internet access. |
| ADSL2+ | ADSL technology, which extends the capacity of the ADLS base by doubling the flow of bits in download. The bandwidth can reach up to 24 Mbps for downloads and 1.5 Mbps for uploads, depending on the distance between the SDLAM and the user's home. |
| Areas not covered | Also called "indirect access areas", they identify geographical areas that are not directly served by the Tiscali network (see also Bitstream and Wholesale). |
| ARPU | Average revenue from fixed and mobile telephony services by user calculated over a determined period for an average number clients of the Tiscali Group or active clients (for other operators) in the same period. |
| Bitstream | Bitstream (or numerical flow) service: a service consisting of the supply on the part of the access operator of the fixed telephone line of the transmission capacity between the location of the final user and the point of presence of an operator or ISP offering wide bandwidth to the final user. |
| Broadband | System of data transmission in which multiple data is sent simultaneously to increase the effective speed of transmission with a data flow equivalent or superior to 1.5 Mbps. |
| Broadcast | Simultaneous transmission of information to all nodes of a network. |
| Unique browsers | The number of different browsers that, in a determined period of time, access a site one or more times. |
| Access fee | It is the amount debited by national operators for each minute of use of their network by managers of other networks. It is also called "interconnession fee". |
| Capex | Acronym for Capital Expenditure. Identifies outgoing cash flows generated by investments in the operating structure. |
| Carrier | Company that makes the telecommunication network physically available. |
| Co-location | Dedicated spaces in the machine rooms of an incumbent operator for the installation by Tiscali of its own network devices. |
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| CPS | Acronym for Carrier Pre Selection, a system for preselecting an operator: this enables an operator/supplier of local services to automatically route calls on the network of the carrier selected by a client who no longer has to enter special selection codes. |
| CS | Acronym for Carrier Selection, a system for selecting an operator: enables a client to select, by entering a special code, a long distance national or international operator other than that with whom he/she has a network access subscription. |
| Business customers | SoHos, small medium and large businesses. |
| Consumer customers | Customers who subscribe to an offer intended for households. |
| Dial Up | Narrowband internet connection by means of a normal telephone call, usually charged on a time basis. |
| Digital | This is the way of representing a physical variable in a language that uses only the figures 0 and 1. The figures are transmitted in binary code as a series of impulses. Digital networks, which are rapidly replacing the old analogue networks, allow greater capacities and greater flexibility by using computerised fechnologies for the transmission and handling of calls. Digital systems offer less noise interference and can include encryption as protection from outside interference. |
| Double Play | Combined offer of access to the Internet and fixed telephony. |
| DSL Network | Acronym for Digital Subscriber Line Network, which is a network built from existing telephone lines using DSL technology instruments that, by using sophisticated modulation mechanisms, enable data packets to be sent along copper wires and thus the linking of a telephone handset to a modem at a home or in an office. |
| DSLAM | Acronym for Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, a device used in DLS technologies, to multiply the transmission of data at high capacities on telephone wires, where a multiplexer means a device that enables the transmission of information (voice, data, videos) in flows by means of direct and continuous connections between two different points on a network. |
| Fibre Optic | Thin fibres of glass, silicon or plastic that form the basis of a data transmission infrastructure. A fibre optic cable contains various individual fibres, each capable of carrying a signal (light impulses) over a virtually limitless band length. They are usually used for long distance transmissions, for the transmission of "heavy data" so that the signal arrives protected from interference, which it might encounter along its own path. A fibre optic cable's carrying capacity is considerably greater than that of traditional cables and copper wire twisted pairs. |
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| GigaEthernet | Term used to describe the various technologies that implement the nominal speed of an Ethernet network (the standard protocol for cards and cables for high-speed connections between a computer and a local network) of up to 1 gigabit per second. |
| Home Network | Local network made up from various kinds of terminals, devices, systems and user networks, with related applications and services including all the apparatus installed at user premises. |
| Hosting | Service that consists of allocating on a web server the pages of a website, thus making it accessible from the internet network. |
| Incumbent | monopoly operator active in the Former telecommunications field. |
| P | for Internet Protocol, a protocol for Acronym interconnecting networks (Inter-Networking Protocol), created for interconnecting ungrouped networks by technology, services and handling. |
| IPTV | Acronym for Internet Protocol Television, a technology suited for using the IP transport technology to carry television content in digital form, using internet connections. |
| ાર્ચ | Acronym for Indefeasible Right of Use, long-term agreements that guarantee the beneficiary the option of using the grantor's fibre optic network for a long period. |
| ISDN | Acronym for Integrated Service Digital Network, a telecommunications protocol in Narrowband able to carry in an integrated form various kinds of information (voice, data, texts, and images) coded in digital form on the same transmission line. |
| Internet Service Provider or ISP | Company that provides Internet access to single users or organisations. |
| Leased lines | Lines whose transmission capacity is made available through leasing contracts for the transmission capacity. |
| LTE-TDD | Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex is a data transmission mobile technology which follows the LTE international standards and which was developed for 4G networks. It is a network technology, which uses one frequency only for transmitting in time-sharing, in other words alternatively between data upload and download with a dynamic adaptation ratio based on the amount of exchanged data. |
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| MAN | Acronym for Metropolitan Area Network, a fibre optic network that extends across a metropolitan area and links a Core Network to an Access Network. |
| Mbps | Acronym for megabit per second, a unit of measurement that states the capacity (and thus the speed) of data transmission along a computer network. |
| Modem | Modulator/demodulator: it is a device that modulates digital data in order to permit its transmission along analogue circuits, usually made up of telephone lines. |
| MNO | Acronym for Mobile Network Operator, an operator of proprietary telecommunications on a mobile network that offers its own services wholesale to all MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). |
| MPF | Acronym for Metallic Path Facility, the pair of copper wires (unscreened twisted pair) that comes from an exchange (MDF-Main Distribution Frame) in an operator's telephone room and arrives at the user's premises (individual or corporate). Connections can be Full or Shared. A Full type connection enables the use of the data service (broadband) in addition to voice traffic. A Shared kind of connection only enables the use of the data service (broadband). In a "shared access" service, the LLU operator (in ungrouped access) provides the ADSL services to the end user, whilst the incumbent operator provides the analogue telephone service using the same access line. |
| MSAN | Acronym for Multi-Service Access Node, a platform able to carry a combination of traditional services on an IP network and that supports a variety of access technologies such as for example a traditional telephone line (POTS), and ADSL2+ line, a symmetric SHDSL line, VDSL and VDSL2 over a copper or fibre-optic network. |
| VAS | Acronym for Value-Added Services; services with added value provide a greater level of functionality compared with the basic transmission services offered on a telecommunications network for the transfer of information between terminals. These include switched analogue voice communications via cable or wireless, a direct digital point to point network "unrestricted" at 9,600 bits/s; packet switching (called virtual) service; analogue and direct broadband transmission of TV signals and extra services, such as closed user groups; call waiting; reverse charging; call forwarding and identification of the number called. The value added services provided over a network, from terminals or specialist centres include message handling systems (MHS) ((which can also be used for commercial documents in accordance with a predetermined format); electronic user directories, network and terminal addresses; e-mail; fax, teletext, videotext and videophone. Value added services may also include voice telephony value added services such as free numbers or paid telephone services. |
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| Visp | Acronym for Virtual Internet Service provision (sometimes also called Wholesale ISP). This is selling of Internet services purchased wholesale from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that owns the network infrastructure. |
| VoD | Acronym for Video On Demand. It is the supply of television programs on request by a user for payment of a subscription or of a sum for each programme (a film, or a football match) purchased. Broadcast in a special way by satellite TV and for cable TV. |
| VolP | Acronym for Voice over internet Protocol, a digital technology that enables the transmission of voice packets through Internet, Intranet, Extranet and VPN networks. The packets are carried according to H.323 specifications, which are the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) standard that forms the basis for data, audio, video and communications on IP networks. |
| VPN | Acronym for Virtual Private Network, which can be realised on Internet or Intranet. Data between workstations and the server of the private network is sent along common public Internet networks, but using protection technologies against any interception by unauthorised persons. |
| Virtual local loop unbundling or VLLU |
Procedure for accessing a local analogue network by which, even in the absence of physical infrastructures, the conditions and terms of access under LLU terms are replicated. This is a temporary access system that is usually replaced by U |
| xDSL | Acronym for Digital Subscriber Lines, a technology that, by means of a modem, uses the normal telephone twisted pair and transforms the traditional telephone line into a high- speed digital connection for the transfer of data. ADSL, ADSL 2, and SHDSL etc. belong to this family of technologies. |
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| WI-FI | Service for connection to the internet at high speed wirelessly. |
| Wi-Max | Acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access: it is a technology that enables wireless access to broadband telecommunications networks. It has been defined by the WiMAX forum, a worldwide consortium made up of the largest companies in the fixed and mobile telecommunications field that has the purpose of developing, promoting and testing the interoperability of systems based on IEEE standard 802.16-2004 for fixed access and IEEE.802.16e-2005 for fixed and mobile access. |
| Wholesale | Services that consist of the sale of access services to third parties. |
| WLR | Acronym for Wholesale Line Rental, resale by an operator of the telecommunications service for lines affiliated with an Incumbent. |
Tiscali S.p.A.
Condensed half-year consolidated financial statements as at 30 June 2016
Limited audit report on the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements
To the shareholders of Tiscali S.p.A.
We have carried out a limited audit on the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements, comprising the income statement, statement of comprehensive income, balance sheet, the cash flow statement, the statement of changes in shareholders' equity and the related explanatory notes, of Tiscali S.p.A. and its subsidiaries ("Tiscali Group") as of 30 June 2016. The Directors are responsible for drafting the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements in compliance with the international accounting standard for Interim Financial Reporting (IAS 34) adopted by the European Union. It is our responsibility to express a judgment on the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements based on our limited audit.
Our audit was conducted in accordance with the limited audit criteria recommended by Consob by means of Resolution no. 10867 of 31 July 1997. The limited audit of the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements consists of conducting meetings, primarily with the company personnel responsible for financial and accounting matters, financial statement analysis and other limited audit procedures. The scope of the limited audit is substantially narrower than that of the full audit conducted in compliance with international audit standards (ISA Italia) and, consequently, we are unsure as to whether we have knowledge of all of the significant facts which could be identified by carrying out a full audit. Therefore, we do not express a judgment on the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements.
Based on the limited audit performed, no elements came to our attention that lead us to believe that the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements of the Tiscali Group as at 30 June 2016 were not drafted, as regards all their significant aspects, in compliance with the international accounting standard for Interim Financial Reporting (IAS 34) adopted by the European Union.
Without changing our conclusions, it is reported what described by the Directors in relation in the Interim report and in the explanation notes, and the related evaluations of them, with reference to the events occurred in the period, and the ones subsequent to the first half year, and the persistence of major uncertainties that may cast significant doubt on capacity of the Group to continue to operate as a going concern, linked to the situation of equity, financial and economic imbalance of the Group, in the presence of a significant gross financial debt, subject to covenants and other contractual obligations.
As noted in the paragraph " Assessment of the business as a going-concern and future outlook" and in the explanatory notes, the Tiscali Group ended the first half of 2016 with a consolidated loss of 17.7 million Euros and a negative consolidated net equity equal to 139, 8 million Euros. In addition, at the date of June 30, 2016 if the Group shows a gross financial indebtedness amounted to 179.4 million Euros and current liabilities higher than current assets (non-financial) for 172.9 million Euros.
It is to be noted that, during the year 2015, the Tiscali Group has completed the business combination ("the Transaction") with the group headed by Aria S.p.A. (herewith "Aria"), and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Aria Group"). The transaction has been effective since 24 December 2015, through the merger of Aria Italia S.p.A., in Tiscali Spa (the "Merger").
The merger, which has the strategic goal to achieve an industrial integration between the activites headed by Tiscali Spa and the activities headed by Aria, has enabled the Tiscali Group to reduce its financial debt, through the full repayment of the Facility A1 pursuant to the Restructuring Agreement entered on December 23, 2014 (amounting to Euro 42.4 milion), signed on December 24, 2015 thanks to the liquidity made available by the financial partner of the Transaction.
Following the merger with the Group headed by Aria S.p.A., which was completed during 2015, the management of the Company, renovated during the Shareholders's Meeting of Tiscali S.p.A. held on February 16, 2016, has prepared a Business Plan for the years 2016-2021 ( "The Plan"), approved by the Board of Directors on March 25, 2016 and based on a new strategic vision of the "combined entity" (which shows the prudential exclusion of the execution of the contract related to the Consip S.P.A. tender for the supply of connectivity services to the Public Sector – Consip Tender - subsequently signed on 24 May 2016, the implementation of which is currently pending, due to the claims filed by some competitors at the State Council. The final judgment is expected for the first months of 2017).
The Directors report that, during the first half of 2016 and in the following months, the Group has finalized the restructuring of the long-term financial indebtedness, gaining an extension of maturities and a reduction in the overall cost of debt. In particular:
In the scenario described above, the Directors, highlight, the persistence of material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt on the Tiscali Group's ability to continue to operate on the assumption of going concern, ascribable to achieving the objectives of the Plan, with particular reference to the evolution of the telecommunications market and to the achievement of the growth targets, relating in particular to the Ultrabroadband LTE services, the main development area planned in the Plan, in a market characterized by strong competitive pressure, as well as with reference to the expected synergies resulting from the integration of the Aria Group in Tiscali.
The Directors, in analyzing what has been achieved in the context of the path aimed at allowing the Group to achieve in the long run a balanced equity, financial and economic, recognize that the current date and in the presence of criticalities intrinsic to the 2016-2021 Plan - despite the Group debt reduction that took place in the year 2015 and the financial operations carried out during the 2016 - uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group's ability to continue to operate under the assumption of going concern but, have the reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources after making the necessary checks and assessing the uncertainties identified in light of the elements described, confident in the capacity of being able to implement the provisions in the 2016-2021 Plan, have the reasonable expectation that the Group have adequate resources even in case of a favorable outcome of the decision of the State Council on the Consip Race, to continue the operational existence for the foreseeable future and, therefore, have adopted the going concern assumption in the preparation of the condensed half-year consolidated financial statements as at 30 June 2016
Milan, 29 September 2016
Reconta Ernst & Young S.p.A.
Alberto Coglia (Partner)
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