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Renault Audit Report / Information 2013

Feb 21, 2014

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Renault

Société Anonyme

13-15, Quai Le Gallo

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Statutory auditors’ report on the financial statements

Year ended December 31, 2013

This is a free translation into English of the statutory auditors’ report issued in French and is provided solely for the convenience of English speaking users.

The statutory auditors’ report includes information specifically required by French law in such reports, whether modified or not. This information is presented below the opinion on the financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph discussing the auditors’ assessments of certain significant accounting and auditing matters. These assessments were considered for the purpose of issuing an audit opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole and not to provide separate assurance on individual account captions or on information taken outside of the financial statements.

This report also includes information relating to the specific verification of information given in the management report and in the documents addressed to the shareholders.

This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and professional auditing standards applicable in France.

DELOITTE & ASSOCIES

185 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle

92524 Neuilly-sur-Seine



ERNST & YOUNG Audit

1/2, place des Saisons

92400 Courbevoie - Paris-La Défense 1

Renault

Société Anonyme

13-15, Quai Le Gallo

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Statutory auditors’ report on the financial statements

Year ended December 31, 2013

To the Shareholders

In compliance with the assignment entrusted to us by your annual general meeting, we hereby report to you, for the year ended December 31, 2013, on:

– the audit of the accompanying financial statements of Renault;

– the justification of our assessments;

– the specific verification and information required by law.

These financial statements have been approved by the Board of Directors. Our role is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

I - Opinion on the financial statements

We conducted our audit in accordance with professional standards applicable in France; those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures, using sampling techniques or other methods of selection, to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made, as well as the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities and of the financial position of the Company as at December 31, 2013 and of the results of its operations for the year then ended in accordance with French accounting principles.

II - Justification of our assessments

In accordance with the requirements of article L. 823-9 of the French company Law (Code de commerce) relating to the justification of our assessments, we bring to your attention the following matters:

As disclosed in note 1.A to the financial statements and in accordance with the recommendation no. 34 of the French national accounting body (Conseil national de la comptabilité), your company has elected to use the equity method to value its investments in subsidiaries over which it exercises exclusive control. The equity value of these investments is determined in accordance with the accounting rules and methods used to draw up the consolidated financial statements of the Group. Our assessment of this equity value is based on the result of the procedures performed to audit the financial statements of the Renault Group for the 2013 fiscal year.

These assessments were made as part of our audit of the financial statements taken as a whole, and therefore contributed to the opinion we formed which is expressed in the first part of this report.

III - Specific procedures and disclosures

We have also performed, in accordance with professional standards applicable in France, the specific verifications required by French law.

We have no matters to report as to the fair presentation and the consistency with the financial statements of the information given in the management report of the Board of Directors and in the documents addressed to the Shareholders with respect to the financial position and the financial statements.

Concerning the information given in accordance with the requirements of article L. 225-102-1 of the French company Law (Code de commerce) relating to remunerations and benefits received by the directors and any other commitments made in their favour, we have verified its consistency with the financial statements, or with the underlying information used to prepare these financial statements and, where applicable, with the information obtained by your company from companies controlling your company or controlled by it. Based on this work, we attest the accuracy and fair presentation of this information.

In accordance with French law, we have verified that the required information concerning the purchase of investments and controlling interests, the cross-shareholdings and the identity of the shareholders and holders of the voting rights has been properly disclosed in the management report.

Neuilly-sur-Seine and Paris-La Défense, February 19, 2014

The Statutory Auditors

French original signed by

DELOITTE & ASSOCIES

ERNST & YOUNG Audit

Thierry Benoit Antoine de Riedmatten Jean-François Bélorgey Bernard Heller