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2. Corporate Governance - Chairman’s Report 2. Corporate Governance - ReportManagement Chairman’s Report Corporate Governance Consolidated Statements Financial Code of Corporate Governance ................54 Board of Directors .....................................54 Executive Management .............................71 Internal audit procedures implemented by Rallye .............................82 Company Financial Statements Financial Company Audit of the fi nancial statements .............86 Statutory Auditors’ Report prepared in accordance with Article L. 225-235 of the French Commercial Code, on the report by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rallye ............87 Shareholders’ Meeting Shareholders’ Additional Information Additional rallye | Annual Report 2015 53 2. Corporate Governance - Chairman’s Report Code of Corporate Governance This section of the Registration Document contains all of the provisions ■ The section of the Chairman’s Report on internal audit and of the report prepared by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, in risk management was prepared from work carried out by the accordance with Article L. 225-37 of the French Commercial Code, departments responsible for Rallye’s internal audit, based on which includes the principles and rules of governance applied within internationally recognized “COSO” (Committee of Sponsoring the Board of Directors and Executive Management as well as internal Organizations of the Treadway Commission) guidelines, which are audit and risk management procedures. compatible with the AFEP and MEDEF recommendations. ■ The section of the Chairman’s Report on the organization and The report was reviewed by the Appointments and Compensation functioning of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee and by the Audit Committee, then approved by the Board Management, as well as on the methods for determining the of Directors at its meeting on March 8, 2016. It was made available to compensation and benefits granted to corporate officers, was the shareholders prior to the Annual General Meeting. prepared on the basis of recommendations of the AFEP/MEDEF Code, revised in November 2015, and of the AMF and of the It was also the subject of a report by the Statutory Auditors, under recommendations appearing in the High Committee on Corporate Article L. 225-235 of the French Commercial Code, with regard to the Governance’s “Application Guide to the AFEP/MEDEF Code internal audit procedures relating to the preparation and processing of Corporate Governance of Listed Companies”, published in of accounting and financial information, as well as a certification December 2015. concerning the preparation of other disclosures. | Code of Corporate Governance As part of the Company’s approach to practicing good governance, the Over the past year, the Company has continued to pay close attention Board of Directors refers to the November 2015 version of the AFEP/ to correctly applying corporate governance principles and to MEDEF Code of Corporate Governance. The Company applies all strengthening them. the AFEP/MEDEF Code’s recommendations as well as those listed in the “Application Guide to the AFEP/MEDEF Code of Corporate The appointment of a female Independent Director at the Governance of Listed Companies”, published in December 2015. Shareholders’ Meeting on May 19, 2015 and her appointment as a member on the Appointments and Compensation Committee, two-thirds of which are independent members, was part of this strengthening process. | Board of Directors COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD The Board thus includes five Independent Directors (over 45%) and six representatives of the majority shareholder. There are three women OF DIRECTORS Directors, accounting for 27% of the Board. On March 8, 2016, the date on which the financial statements for the The membership of the Board of Directors was changed in 2015 year 2015 were approved, the Board of Directors consisted of eleven following the appointment of Sophie Guieysse by the Shareholders’ Directors: Meeting on May 19, 2015. She was also appointed to be a member of the Appointments and Compensation Committee. ■ Jean-Charles Naouri, Chairman of the Board of Directors; (1) Directors are chosen for their experience, diversity of experience and ■ Philippe Charrier ; synergies. (1) ■ Jean Chodron de Courcel ; The Board of Directors ensures that Board and Committee ■ Jacques Dumas; membership is balanced, particularly with regard to the presence of (1) women, the representation of Independent Directors, and the diversity ■ Catherine Fulconis ; of their areas of expertise. ■ Jean-Marie Grisard, representing Finatis; Within this context, the Appointments and Compensation Committee (1) ■ Sophie Guieysse ; conducts annual reviews of the Board of Directors and its Special Committees, in which it periodically assesses their size and structure, ■ Didier Lévêque, representing Foncière Euris; and communicates its conclusions and recommendations to the Board of Directors. ■ Odile Muracciole, representing Saris; The Appointments and Compensation Committee, in particular, ■ Gabriel Naouri, representing Euris; assessed the following aspects of the Board of Directors’ composition: (1) ■ Christian Paillot . The length of terms of office ■ Non-voting observer, André Crestey. The one-year terms of office of all the Directors expire at the Shareholders’ Meeting on May 18, 2016. (1) Independent Directors. 54 rallye | Annual Report 2015 2. Corporate Governance - Chairman’s Report Board of Directors Representation of Independent The Appointments and Compensation Committee conducted an annual review of the independence of Directors with regard to the Directors assessment criteria proposed by the AFEP/MEDEF Code, detailed in As part of its duties, the Appointments and Compensation Committee the table below. The Committee presented its findings to the Board of is in charge of monitoring the position of each Director with regard, if Directors on March 8, 2016. applicable, to the relationships that may exist between him/her and the Company or Group companies, which might compromise his/her freedom of judgment or might lead to potential conflicts of interest ReportManagement with the Company. Summary analysis of the position of each Director with regard to the independence criteria of the AFEP/MEDEF Code Independence Not to be an Not to be a Not to be a Not to have a Not to have been Not to have been criteria of the employee or a corporate officer customer, close personal an Auditor of the a Board member AFEP/MEDEF corporate officer of a company supplier, relationship Company during of the Company Code: of the Company, in which the investment bank, with a corporate the previous five for more than or an employee Company (or lending bank of officer years twelve years or Board member an employee the Company Corporate Governance of the parent designated company or of as such or a a company it corporate office controls, and of the Company) not to have been directly or one during the indirectly holds a previous five seat on the Board; years; Independent Directors Philippe Charrier YYYYYY Jean Chodron de YYYYYY Courcel Consolidated Statements Financial Catherine Fulconis YYYYYY Sophie Guieysse Y (1) YYYYY Christian Paillot YYYYYY Non-independent Directors Jacques Dumas N N Jean-Marie Grisard, N N representing Finatis Didier Lévêque, N representing Foncière Euris Company Financial Statements Financial Company Odile Muracciole, N representing Saris Jean-Charles Naouri N N Gabriel Naouri, NN representing Euris (1) Sophie Guieysse was formerly a Director of Groupe GO Sport from April 4, 2011 until April 17, 2015, i.e. for less than 12 years. She has never held an executive position at Groupe GO Sport or at any other company in the consolidated Group. She therefore qualifies as an Independent Director, because her position in the past does not create any serious risk of a conflict of interest. Note: non-compliance with the criteria is identified with an “N”, and compliance with a “Y”. The Committee noted that Christian Paillot, appointed on April 15, The Committee noted that no Independent Directors have a business Meeting Shareholders’ 2004, reached the maximum 12-year period for performing the duties relationship with the Company or with one of the Group companies. of a Director, as provided for in the AFEP/MEDEF Code. Additional Information Additional rallye | Annual Report 2015 55 2. Corporate Governance - Chairman’s Report Board of Directors The presence of women As a result, at the end of the Shareholders’ Meeting on May 18, 2016, the Board might comprise 10 members, including four women The Board has three women Directors (27%). Directors and four Independent Directors (40%). It would also include As such, the Appointments and Compensation Committee has two non-voting observers. continued to select women Directors in order to reach, by the 2016 Shareholders’ Meeting, the 40% threshold recommended by the AFEP/ MEDEF Code and required by law. STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors holding more than one office No Director whose re-appointment has been recommended to the Preparation and organization of the Shareholders’ Meeting on May 18, 2016 holds more than one office as provided for by law and AFEP/MEDEF Code. work of the Board of Directors In accordance with the recommendations of the AMEP/MEDEF Code, The requirements governing the preparation and organization of the the executive corporate officer must obtain the Board of Directors’ work of the Board of