APC 2009 Annual Report Download - page 2

Message from Jean-Pascal Tricoire 2
Message from HenriLachmann 4
Interview with EmmanuelBabeau 5
Leadership team 6
Key figures 2009 8
2009 in brief 11
Description oftheGroup,
itsmarkets anditsbusinesses 13
1. From steel to energy management 14
2. A strategic focus on balancing theenergyequation 17
3. Innovation and R&D: creating intelligent energy
solutions forourcustomers 24
4. Group organisation 27
5. Risk factors 30
Sustainable development 37
1. Introduction 38
2. Framework 39
3. Sustainable development organisation 41
4. Environmental performance 45
5. Social performance 53
6. Societal performance 66
7. Rating 70
8. Methodology 71
9. Statutory Auditors’ report oncertain
environmental, safety andhuman resources
indicators 73
Corporate Governance 75
1. Supervisory Board ** 76
2. Organisational andoperatingprocedures
oftheSupervisory Board ** 81
3. Supervisory Board meetings in2009 ** 82
4. Committees of the Supervisory Board (members,
operating procedures and meetings) ** 83
5. Management Board members 86
6. Organisational andoperatingprocedures
oftheManagement Board 87
7. Declarations concerning thesituation
ofthe members ofthe Supervisory Board
andManagement Board 87
8. Management interests andcompensation 88
9. Regulated Agreements 95
10. Internal Control and Risk Management** 96
11. Application of the AFEP-MEDEF corporate
governance guidelines ** 103
Business Review 105
1. Trends in Schneider Electric’s core markets 106
2. Review of the consolidated financial statements 107
3. Review of the parent company financial statements 111
4. Review of subsidiaries 112
5. Outlook 112
Consolidated financial
statements 113
1. Consolidated statement of income 114
2. Consolidated statement ofcashflows 116
3. Consolidated balance sheet 118
4. Consolidated statement ofchangesinequity 120
5. Notes to the consolidated financial statements 121
6. Statutory Auditors’ report ontheconsolidated
financial statements 181
Company Financial Statements 183
1. Balance sheet 184
2. Statement of income 186
3. Notes to the financial statements 187
4. Statutory Auditors’ report
onthefinancialstatements 198
5. List of securities at December31,2009 199
6. Subsidiaries and affiliates 200
7. Five-year financial summary 202
General presentation of
Schneider Electric SA 203
1. General information 204
2. Shareholders’ rights andobligations 205
3. Capital 207
4. Ownership structure 210
5. Employee profit-sharing, stockownership 211
6. Stock option and stock grant plans 211
7. Disclosure of information requiredin accordance
witharticleL.225-100-3 oftheFrench
Commercial Code 218
8. Stock market data 218
9. Investor relations 221
Annual and Extraordinary
Shareholders’ Meeting 223
1. Management Board’s report tothe Annual
andExtraordinary Shareholders’Meeting 224
2. Supervisory Board’s comments on the
Management Board’s report, made in accordance
witharticleL.225-68 oftheFrenchCommercial
Code 227
3. Auditors’ special reports 227
4. Resolutions 231
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Persons responsible fortheRegistration Document
andauditofthe accounts 237