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Proximus SA — Audit Report / Information 2012
Mar 15, 2013
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Audit Report / Information
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Deloitte.
Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises Berkenlaan 8b 1831 Diegem Belgium Tél. + 32 2 800 20 00 Fax + 32 2 800 20 01 www.deloitte.be
Belgacom NV van publiek recht / SA de droit public
Statutory auditor's report to the shareholders' meeting on the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012
The original text of this report is in Dutch/French
Deloitte.
Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises Berkenlaan 8b 1831 Diegem Belgium Tél. + 32 2 800 20 00 Fax + 32 2 800 20 01 www.deloitte.be
Belgacom NV van publiek recht / SA de droit public
Statutory auditor's report to the shareholders' meeting on the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012
To the shareholders
As required by law, we report to you on the statutory audit mandate which you have entrusted to us. This report includes our report on the consolidated financial statements as defined below together with our report on other legal and regulatory requirements.
Report on the consolidated financial statements - Unqualified opinion
We have audited the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Belgacom NV van publiek recht / SA de droit public ("the company") and its subsidiaries (jointly "the group"), prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium. These consolidated financial statements comprise the consolidated balance sheet as at 31 December 2012, the consolidated income statement, the consolidated statement of other comprehensive income, the consolidated statement of changes in equity and the consolidated cash flow statement for the year then ended, as well as the summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes. The consolidated balance sheet shows total assets of 8.211 million EUR and the consolidated income statement shows a consolidated profit (group share) for the year then ended of 711 million EUR.
Responsibility of the board of directors for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium, and for such internal control as the board of directors determines is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Statutory auditor's responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the statutory auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the group's preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the group's internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the board of directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We have obtained from the company's officials and the board of directors the explanations and information necessary for performing our audit.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained, is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
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Unqualified opinion
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements of Belgacom NV van publiek recht / SA de droit public give a true and fair view of the group's net equity and financial position as of 31 December 2012, and of its results and its cash flows for the year then ended, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium.
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the directors' report on the consolidated financial statements.
In the framework of our mandate, our responsibility is to verify, for all significant aspects, the compliance with some legal and regulatory requirements. On this basis, we provide the following additional comment which does not modify the scope of our audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements:
The directors' report on the consolidated financial statements includes the information required by law, is, for all $\bullet$ significant aspects, in agreement with the consolidated financial statements and is not in obvious contradiction with any information obtained in the context of our mandate.
Diegem, 1 March 2013
The statutory auditor
DELOITTE Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises
SG s.f.d. SCRL Represented by Geert Verstraeten
Luc Van Coppenolle