Audit Committee

This Committee consists of four directors. The Committee has been composed mainly of external independent directors.

The Audit Committee has assigned, amongst others, the support functions for the Board of Directors in its monitoring of the following: drafting processes of economic-financial information and that of internal control of the Company, independence of the external auditor, compliance with laws and internal regulations and those relating to the Company's shareholders, and those responsibilities which the Board of Directors expressly attribute to it .