In their report to the Ordinary General Meeting, the Statutory Auditors shall specify, in addition to the information provided for in Article R. 822-56 :
<1° The identity of the person or entity whose accounts they are certifying, specifying the body for which the report is intended;
2° The annual or consolidated accounts that are the subject of the report and the financial year to which they relate;
3° The accounting rules and methods applied in preparing the accounts;
4° The scope of their engagement, and the professional standards in accordance with which it was performed;
5° Where applicable, significant uncertainties related to events or circumstances that may cast doubt on the going concern basis.
They shall, where appropriate, make any useful observations.
The statutory auditors declare:
1° Either certify that the annual or consolidated financial statements to which the report relates are true and fair and give a true and fair view of the results of operations for the past financial year and of the financial position and assets and liabilities of the person or entity or of all the persons and entities included in the consolidation at the end of the financial year ;
2° Either qualify the certification;
3° Or refuse to certify the accounts;
4° Or be unable to certify the accounts.
They shall justify their assessments and specify the reasons for their reservations, refusal or inability to certify.
When the certification engagement relates to the accounts of a public interest entity, the justification of assessments consists of a description of the most significant risks of material misstatement, including where these are due to fraud, and indicates the responses made to address these risks.
The statutory auditors report their observations on the fairness and consistency with the annual financial statements of the information given in the management report for the year and in the documents sent to shareholders on the financial position of the company and of all the undertakings included in the consolidation, as well as on the annual financial statements and the consolidated financial statements.
They shall specifically attest to the accuracy and fairness of the information mentioned in the first two paragraphs of Article L. 225-37-3 and in the fifth and sixth paragraphs of the same Article.
They shall formulate their conclusion on compliance, in the presentation of the financial statements included in the annual financial report referred to in I of Article L. 451-1-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code, with the single electronic information format defined by Delegated European Regulation no. 2019/815 of 17 December 2018.
Where the certification concerns the accounts of a public interest entity, they shall comply with the requirements set out in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014.
The report shall be signed by the statutory auditor, a natural person, or, where the mandate is entrusted to a firm of statutory auditors, by the person referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 822-9.