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Annual and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of May 3, 2006
Person responsible
for the registration document
H enri Lachmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Attestation by the person
responsible for the registration document
I hereby declare that, having taken all reasonable care
to ensure that such is the case, the information con-
tained in the registration document is, to the best of my
knowledge, in accordance with the facts and contains
no omission likely to affect its import.
I obtained a statement from the Statutory Auditors at
the end of their engagement affirming that they have
read the whole of the registration document and exam-
ined the information about the financial position and
the historical accounts contained therein.
The Statutory Auditors’ reports on the historical infor-
mation presented in the registration document are pro-
vided on pages 125 and 136 of the said document. The
Auditors did not have any matters to report concerning
this data and did not qualify their opinion.
Attestation
Free translation of the original report in French
To the shareholders,
In our capacity as Statutory Auditors of Schneider
Electric SA (the Company) and as required by Article
L.225-235 of the French Commercial Code
(Code de
Commerce),
we hereby present our report on the
report prepared by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Company in accordance with Article
L.225-37 of the Code de Commerce for the year
ended December 31, 2005.
In his report, the Chairman of the Board of Directors is
required to comment on the conditions applicable for
the preparation and organization of the work carried
out by the Board of Directors and the internal control
procedures implemented within the Company.
Our responsibility is to report to shareholders our
comments on the information contained in the Chair-
man’s report concerning the internal control proce-
dures related to the preparation and processing of
accounting and financial information.
We performed our work in accordance with profes-
sional standards in France. Those standards require
that we perform procedures to verify the information
provided in the Chairman’s report on the internal con-
trol procedures covering the preparation and process-
ing of accounting and financial information.
In particular, we have examined the objectives and
general organization of the Company’s internal control
system and the internal control procedures covering
the preparation and processing of accounting and
financial information, as described in the Chairman’s
report. We have also examined the underlying docu-
ments.
Based on our procedures, we have no comments to
make on the information provided concerning the
Company’s internal control procedures covering the
preparation and processing of accounting and financial
information, as contained in the report of the Chairman
of the Board of Directors, prepared in accordance with
the final paragraph of Article L.225-37 of the Code de
Commerce.
Paris and Neuilly Sur Seine, February 16, 2006
The Statutory Auditors
Mazars & Guérard Barbier Frinault & Autres
Mazars Ernst & Young
Pierre Sardet Christian Chochon
Jean-Louis Simon Pierre Jouanne
Auditors' report on the report
of the Chairman of the Board of Directors
Auditors' report on the report of the Chairman of the Board of Directors
drawn up in application of the final paragraph of Article L.225-235 of
the French Commercial Code (Code de Commerce) and concerning
internal control procedures related to the establishment and processing
of accounting and financial information
Rueil-Malmaison, March 27, 2006
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Henri Lachmann
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