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the Company. The results of these assessments are disclosed in
the Annual Report on Corporate Governance.
At its meeting held on July 24, 2007, the Board of Directors
confirmed that the directors Roland Berger, René Carron, Luca
Garavoglia, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Vittorio Mincato, Pasquale
Pistorio, Ratan Tata and Mario Zibetti satisfied these
requirements of independence.
Some of the current directors also hold positions at other listed
companies or companies of a significant interest.Excluding the
previously mentioned positions held by executive directors at
the Fiat Group, the most significant are as follows:
■Andrea Agnelli: Director of IFI S.p.A.;
■Roland Berger: Member of the Supervisory Board Wilhelm
von Finck AG, WMP EuroCom AG, Helios Kliniken GmbH, Prime
Office, Schuler AG and Senator Entertainment AG;
■Tiberto Brandolini D’Adda: Vice Chairman of IFIL Investments
S.p.A., Chairman of Sequana Capital, General Partner of Giovanni
Agnelli e C. S.a.p.A., Director of IFI S.p.A., Espirito Santo Financial
Group, SGS S.A. and Vittoria Assicurazioni S.p.A.;
■René Carron: Chairman of Crédit Agricole S.A., Caisse
Regional des Crédit Agricole des Savoie, Confederation
Nationale de la Mutualité de la Cooperation et du Crédit
Agricoles, Director of Suez S.A. and Member of the
Supervisory Board of Lagardere SCA;
■Luca Cordero di Montezemolo: Director of Poltrona Frau S.p.A.,
Tod’s S.p.A., Pinault Printemps Redoute S.A. and Le Monde S.A.,
Member of the International Advisory Board of Citigroup Inc.;
■John Elkann: Vice Chairman and General Partner of Giovanni
Agnelli e C. S.a.p.A., Chairman of IFI S.p.A., Vice Chairman of
IFIL Investments S.p.A., Director of RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.
and Banca Leonardo Group S.p.A.;
■Luca Garavoglia: Chairman of Davide Campari Milano S.p.A.,
Director of Indesit Company S.p.A.;
■Gian Maria Gros-Pietro: Chairman of Autostrade per l’Italia
S.p.A., Atlantia S.p.A. and Perseo S.p.A., Director of Edison
S.p.A. and Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A.;
■Sergio Marchionne: Chairman of SGS S.A., Director of
UBS AG;
■Virgilio Marrone: Chief Executive Officer and General
Manager of IFI S.p.A., Director of Exor Group S.A. and Member
of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.;
■Vittorio Mincato: Chairman of Poste Italiane S.p.A., Director
of Parmalat S.p.A.;
■Pasquale Pistorio: Honorary Chairman of S.T.
Microelectronics N.V., Director of Chartered Semiconductor
Manufacturing Ltd.;
■Carlo Barel di Sant’Albano: Chief Executive Officer and
General Manager of IFIL Investments S.p.A., Director of
Juventus FC S.p.A., Sequana Capital and Cushman &
Wakefield, Member of the Supervisory Board of Intesa
Sanpaolo S.p.A.;
■Ratan Tata: Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, Tata Industries Ltd,
Tata Steel Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd, Tata Chemicals Ltd, The Indian
Hotels Company Ltd, The Tata Power Company Ltd, Tata Tea Ltd,
Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd,
Tata Teleservices Ltd, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd,
Tata Technologies (Pte) Ltd (Singapore), Tata International AG
(Switzerland), Tata AG (Switzerland), Tata Limited (UK), Tata
Incorporated (USA), Tata America International Corporation Ltd
and Tata Motors European Technical Centre Plc. and Director of
The Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Ltd, Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd, Antrix Corporation Ltd and Alcoa Inc. (USA);
■Mario Zibetti: Director of Ersel Sim S.p.A.
Committees established by the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors established the Internal Control Committee
and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee with
the task, among others, of selecting and proposing nominees for
the post of director, the Compensation Committee, with the duty
of submitting proposals with respect to compensation plans, and
the Strategic Committee, on which it relies for the preparation of
Company and Group strategies. The Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee were
created as a result of the splitting up, in the month of July 2007,
of the pre-existing Nominating and Compensation Committee.