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Message from Jean-Pascal Tricoire 2
Message from Henri Lachmann 4
Interview with Emmanuel Babeau 5
Leadership team 6
Key figures 2012 8
2012 in brief 11
Overview of theGroup’s strategy,
markets and businesses 13
1. Our strategy and market opportunities 14
2. Businesses, end-markets andcustomer channels 18
3. Company history and development 22
4. Research&development 27
5. Organisational simplicity andefficiency 30
6. Risk Factors 33
Sustainable development 41
1. Sustainable development attheheart of our strategy 42
2. Green and responsible growth driving economic
performance 52
3. Schneider Electric’s Commitment
toEnvironmental Performance 60
4. Committed to and on behalf ofemployees 70
5. Schneider Electric, a responsible corporate citizen 83
6. Methodology and audit ofindicators 92
7. Indicators 99
Corporate governance 111
1. Supervisory Board** 113
2. Organizational and operating procedures
oftheSupervisoryBoard** 121
3. Supervisory Board meetings** 123
4. Supervisory Board committees (members,
operating procedures andmeetings)** 125
5. Management Board members 128
6. Organizational and operating procedures
of the Management Board 129
7. Declarations concerning thesituation
ofthe members of theSupervisory Board
andManagement Board 129
8. Management interests andcompensation 130
9. Regulated Agreements 138
10. Internal control and risk management** 139
11. Application of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate
governance guidelines** 148
Business review 149
1. Trends in Schneider Electric’s core markets 150
2. Review of the consolidated financial statements 152
3. Review of the parent company financial statements 157
4. Review of subsidiaries 157
5. Outlook 157
Consolidated financial statements at
December31, 2012 159
1. Consolidated statement of income 160
2. Consolidated statement ofcashflows 162
3. Consolidated balance sheet 164
4. Consolidated statement ofchangesinequity 166
5. Notes to the consolidated financial statements 167
6. Statutory Auditors’ report on the
consolidatedfinancialstatements 229
Company financial statements 231
1. Balance sheet 232
2. Statement of income 234
3. Notes to the financial statements 235
4. Statutory Auditors’ report onthefinancialstatements 246
5. List of securities held atDecember31, 2012 247
6. Subsidiaries and affiliates 248
7. The Company’s financial results
overthelastfiveyears 250
General presentation
ofSchneiderElectricSA 251
1. General information ontheCompany 252
2. Shareholders’ rights andobligations 253
3. Capital 255
4. Ownership structure 259
5. Employee profit-sharing — stockownership 260
6. Performance shares and stock option plans 261
7. Disclosure of information required in accordance
witharticleL.225-100-3 oftheFrench Commercial
Code** 267
8. Stock market data 267
9. Investor relations 269
Annual and Extraordinary
Shareholders’ Meeting 271
1. Management Board Report to the Combined
Annual and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting 272
2. Appendix: Internal regulations of the Board
ofDirectors andcharter of the Vice-Chairman
IndependantDirector 282
3. Supervisory Board comments on thereport
of the ManagementBoard and Financial
Statements pursuanttoarticleL.225-68
oftheFrenchCommercialCode 289
4. Auditors’ special reports 290
5. Resolutions 298
Persons responsible for
theRegistrationDocument 313
Persons responsible for the Registration Document 313
Financial Calendar
Investor relations
Financial releases
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