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It is also responsible for making proposals to the General Meeting for the appointment of
the statutory auditor and examining the auditor’s independence, particularly as regards the
provision of additional service.
The annual report on the work of the Audit Committee is published, together with the finan-
cial statements, on the Company’s website.
To all effects, the Audit Committee represents the company in relation to the external auditor,
ensuring that all the conditions of service provision are met, annually assessing the auditor’s
performance, acting as the auditor’s main contact and receiving its reports, jointly with the
Board of Directors.
To perform its functions the Audit Committee obtains from the Board of Directors the infor-
mation it needs in order to carry out its activity, namely information on the Group’s oper-
ations and finances, changes in the composition of the Group’s portfolio of companies and
businesses and the content of the main resolutions adopted by the Board.
IV. STATUTORY EXTERNAL AUDITOR
39. Statutory External Auditor identification and the representing
partner
The statutory auditor of the Company is PriceWaterHouseCoopers and Associates – Sociedade
de Revisores Oficiais de Contas, Lda.”, represented by Hermínio António Paulos Afonso or
António Joaquim Brochado Correia.
40. Permanence of functions
PriceWaterHouseCoopers and Associates has been acting as the Company’s statutory auditor
since 2005 to the present.
41. Other services provided to the Company
The statutory auditor is also the Company’s external auditor.
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