This committee is responsible for: (i) financial matters, assisting the Board of Directors with the Company’s financial, investment and financing policies, as well as monitoring and analyzing their implementation and effectiveness; (ii) audit matters, issuing an opinion on the Management Report and accounts and the financial statements for the fiscal year to be submitted to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, evaluating the scope of the work to be undertaken by the independent auditors hired by the Company or its subsidiaries, as well as reviewing and validating their report; and (iii) matters related to the contracting of related parties, giving an opinion on the execution of any and all contracts between the Company and its subsidiaries/associated companies, Management, Controlling Shareholders and other companies belonging to the same group as any of the above, involving, in a single agreement or successive agreements, with or without the same purpose, in the same year, amounts equal to or more than R$300,000.00.