NCC Group plc
(the "Company")
Notice of Annual General Meeting 2012
The Company confirms that its Notice of Annual General Meeting 2012 ("AGM Notice") and its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 May 2012 ("Annual Report") have been posted to shareholders. The Annual General Meeting will be held at 11am on 20 September 2012 at Manchester Technology Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M1 7EF
Copies of the Annual Report and the AGM Notice have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The AGM Notice together with the Annual Report can also be viewed on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.nccgroup.com.
A condensed set of the Company's financial statements and extracts were included in the Company's preliminary results for the year ended 31 May 2012 released on 5 July 2012 (the "Preliminary Announcement"). The information included within the Preliminary Announcement together with the information set out below, which is extracted from the Annual Report, constitute the material required by Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5 to be communicated to the media in full unedited text through a Regulatory Information Service. This announcement and the Preliminary Announcement is not a substitute for reading the full Annual Report. Page numbers and cross-references in the extracted information below refer to page numbers and cross-references in the Annual Report. To view the Preliminary Announcement, please visit the investor section of the Company's website at www.nccgroup.com.
Directors' Responsibility Statement
The following statement is extracted from pages 55 and 56 of the Annual Report and is repeated here for the purposes of Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5. This statement relates solely to the Annual Report and is not connected to the extracted information set out in this announcement or the Preliminary Announcement:
"The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group financial statements in accordance with applicable United Kingdom law and regulations. Company law requires the Directors to prepare Group financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the Directors are required to prepare Group financial statements under IFRSs as adopted by the European Union.
Under Company Law the Directors must not approve the Group financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing the Group financial statements the Directors are required to:
· present fairly the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of the Group;
· select suitable accounting policies in accordance with IAS 8: Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors and then apply them consistently;
· present information, including accounting policies, in a manner that provides relevant, reliable, comparable and understandable information;
· make judgements that are reasonable;
· provide additional disclosures when compliance with the specific requirements in IFRSs as adopted by the European Union is insufficient to enable users to understand the impact of particular transactions, other events and conditions on the Group's financial position and financial performance; and
· state whether the Group financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Group's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Group and enable them to ensure that the Group financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Directors are also responsible for preparing the Directors' Report, the Directors' Remuneration Report and the Corporate Governance Statement in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and applicable regulations, including the requirements of the Listing Rules and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Each of the Directors whose names and functions are set out on pages 39 to 46, confirm that, to the best of their knowledge:
· the Financial Statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole.
· the business review includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face.
Enquiries:
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NCC Group plc
Rob Cotton CEO Felicity Brandwood, Company Secretary |
0161 209 5200 0161 209 5381 |