EasyJet 2009 Annual Report Download - page 57

55 easyJet plc Annual report and accounts 2009
STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
The Directors are responsible for preparing the annual report, the report on
Directors’ remuneration and the accounts in accordance with applicable law
and regulations.
Company law requires the Directors to prepare accounts for each financial
year. Under that law the Directors have elected to prepare the Group
and parent company accounts in accordance with International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union. Under
company law the Directors must not approve the accounts unless they are
satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group
and the Company and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to:
 select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
 make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and
prudent;
 state whether applicable IFRSs as adopted by the European Union have
been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained
in the accounts; and
 prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate
to presume that the Group and Company will continue in business.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that
are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and disclose
with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company
and the Group and enable them to ensure that the accounts and the report
on Directors’ remuneration comply with the Companies Act 2006 and, as
regards the Group accounts, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also
responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and
hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud
and other irregularities.
The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the
Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the
preparation and dissemination of accounts may differ from legislation in
other jurisdictions.
Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed on pages 36
and 37 confirm that, to the best of their knowledge:
 the Group and Company accounts, which have been prepared in
accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU, give a true and fair view
of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group and
Company; and
 the Directors’ report includes a fair review of the development and
performance of the business and the position of the Group and
Company, together with a description of the principal risks and
uncertainties that they face.
In the case of each Director in office at the date the Directors’ report is
approved, and in accordance with Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006:
(a) so far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant audit information
of which the Company’s auditors are unaware; and
(b) he has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a Director
in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to
establish that the Company’s auditors are aware of that information.
The Annual report on pages 1 to 55 was approved by the Board of
Directors and authorised for issue on 16 November 2009 and signed
on behalf of the Board.
Sir David Michels Andrew Harrison
Director Director