Our Group has organized its fi nancial reporting activities on the basis of the CoSO* Model and on benchmark best practices, separating the defi nition of administrative and accounting procedures for which the “Manager in charge of preparing the company’s fi nancial statements” is responsible, from the auditing of the application of those procedures, for which the Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance Department is responsible, and that therefore does so independently and jointly with its other Audit activities.