The Company’s key management and governance personnel are the Chairman andCEO, the members of the COMEX (Executive Committee) throughout 2020 or since their date of appointment if they joined the COMEX during the year, and the directors. Directors representing the employees receive no remuneration for their services.
The total compensation paid by EDF and controlled companies to the Group’s key management and governance personnel amounted to €11.9 million in 2020(€12.6 million in 2019). This amount covered short-term benefits (basic salaries, performance-related salary, profit share and benefits in kind), special IEG post-employment benefits where relevant, and the corresponding employer contributions, plus any director’s fees.
EDF’s key management and governance personnel benefit from no special pension system, starting bonus or severance payment entitlement except by contractual negotiation.
No developments have occurred since the year-end in addition to those presented in other notes.
The following table sets forth the fees paid for work done by the Statutory Auditors and their network during 2020:
| Deloitte network | KPMG network | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands of euros) | Amount (excluding taxes) | % | Amount (excluding taxes) | % |
| Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts | Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts Deloitte network
| Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts KPMG network
| ||
| EDF | EDF Deloitte network 2,794 | EDF KPMG network 24.6 | 2,945 | 16.2 |
| Controlled entities(1) | Controlled entities (1)Deloitte network 4,560 (3) | Controlled entities (1)KPMG network 40.1 | 13,503 | 74.2 |
| Sub-total | Sub-total Deloitte network 7,354 | Sub-total KPMG network 64.7 | 16,448 | 90.4 |
| Non-audit services (2) | Non-audit services (2)Deloitte network
| Non-audit services (2)KPMG network
| ||
| EDF | EDF Deloitte network 561 | EDF KPMG network 4.9 | 953 | 5.2 |
| Controlled entities(1) | Controlled entities (1)Deloitte network 3,448 | Controlled entities (1)KPMG network 30.4 | 804 | 4.4 |
| Sub-total | Sub-total Deloitte network 4,009 | Sub-total KPMG network 35.3 | 1,757 | 9.6 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL Deloitte network 11,363 | TOTAL KPMG network 100 | 18,205 | 100 |
(1) Fully consolidated subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities whose auditors’ fees are included in the consolidated income statement.
(2) Services required by laws and regulations, and services supplied at the request of the Group. Non-audit services mainly correspond to (i) certifications of financial and accounting information or Independent Reports on social, environmental and societal information required under Article L. 225-102-1 of the French Commercial Code, (ii) services relating to disposals of entities, (iii) tax services authorised by local legislation, and (iv) operating process reviews and information system consulting services that are unrelated to the production of accounting and financial information.
(3) The decrease results from a transfer between audit firms with no impact on the overall level of fees to the Group’s auditors, and a change of Statutory Auditor for a significant French entity in the Group, which is now audited by the Group’s Statutory Auditors and another audit firm.
The following table sets forth the fees paid for work done by the Statutory Auditors and their network during 2019:
| Deloitte network | KPMG network | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands of euros) | Amount (excluding taxes) | % | Amount (excluding taxes) | % |
| Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts | Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts Deloitte network
| Audit – Statutory audit, certification, review of company and consolidated accounts KPMG network
| ||
| EDF | EDF Deloitte network 2,709 | EDF KPMG network 19.2 | 2,822 | 17.1 |
| Controlled entities(1) | Controlled entities (1)Deloitte network 8,104 | Controlled entities (1)KPMG network 57.4 | 11,654 | 70.6 |
| Sub-total | Sub-total Deloitte network 10,813 | Sub-total KPMG network 76.6 | 14,476 | 87.7 |
| Non-audit services(2) | Non-audit services (2)Deloitte network
| Non-audit services (2)KPMG network
| ||
| EDF | EDF Deloitte network 883 | EDF KPMG network 6.3 | 867 | 5.3 |
| Controlled entities(1) | Controlled entities (1)Deloitte network 2,425 | Controlled entities (1)KPMG network 17.1 | 1,152 | 7.0 |
| Sub-total | Sub-total Deloitte network 3,308 | Sub-total KPMG network 23.4 | 2,020 | 12.3 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL Deloitte network 14,121 | TOTAL KPMG network 100 | 16,496 | 100 |
(1) Fully consolidated subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities whose auditors’ fees are included in the consolidated income statement.
(2) Services required by laws and regulations, and services supplied at the request of the Group. Non-audit services mainly correspond to (i) certifications of financial and accounting information or Independent Reports on social, environmental and societal information required under Article L. 225-102-1 of the French Commercial Code, (ii) services relating to disposals of entities, (iii) tax services authorised by local legislation, and (iv) operating process reviews and information system consulting services that are unrelated to the production of accounting and financial information.
