Plastic Omnium - 2018 Registration Document

5 2018 STATUTORY ACCOUNTS Statutory Auditors’ report on the financial statements www.plasticomnium.com PLASTIC OMNIUM 2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 252 INFORMATION ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS APPOINTMENT OF THE STATUTORY AUDITORS We were appointed as statutory auditors of Compagnie Plastic Omnium by the Annual General Meeting held on December 28, 1977 for Mazars and on May 15, 2001 for "Ernst & Young et Autres" (under the name "Ernst & Young Audit" on May 15, 2001 until April 29, 2010). As at December 31, 2018, Mazars and Ernst & Young et Autres were in the forty-second year and ninth year of total uninterrupted engagement respectively. Previously, ERNST & YOUNG Audit was the Statutory Auditor since 2001. RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OFFICERS REGARDING THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in accordance with French accounting principles and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless it is expected to liquidate the Company or to cease operations. The Audit Committee is responsible for monitoring the financial reporting process and the effectiveness of internal control and risks management systems and where applicable, its internal audit, regarding the accounting and financial reporting procedures. The financial statements were approved by the board of directors. STATUTORY AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OBJECTIVES AND AUDIT APPROACH Our role is to issue a report on the financial statements. Our objective is to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with professional standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. As specified in Article L. 823-10-1 of the french commercial code, our statutory audit does not include assurance on the viability of the Company or the quality of the Company's management. As part of an audit conducted in accordance with professional standards applicable in France, the statutory auditor exercises professional judgment throughout this audit. Furthermore it: Identifies and assesses the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, designs and performs audit ● procedures responsive to those risks, and obtains audit evidence considered to be sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for his opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control. Obtains an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit 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 internal control. Evaluates the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by ● management in the financial statements. Assesses the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a ● material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. This assessment is based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of his audit report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern. If the statutory auditor concludes that a material uncertainty exists, there is a requirement to draw attention in the audit report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are not provided or inadequate, to modify the opinion expressed therein.