Company: BBVXF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001193125-25-027348
Chunk: 64

Company: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 6-K
Chunk 64
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 of the individual and consolidated Annual Financial Statements for the financial year, the half-yearly and quarterly financial statements, as well as other relevant financial information, including the CNMV Universal Registration Document, U.S. Form 20-Fof the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Prudential Relevance Report, among others, submitting to the Board the corresponding reports and/or favorable opinions of the Committee on the financial information of the Bank and its Group. In addition, and as part of the financial information monitoring process, the Committee has overseen the sufficiency, suitability and effective functioning of the internal control systems in place for the preparation of financial information, including tax-relatedsystems. It also examined the reports issued internally by the executive areas of the Bank and by the external auditor, respectively, on the effectiveness of the system of internal control over financial reporting, submitting to the Board the Committee’s reports on the sufficiency of the internal control systems put in place by the Group for the generation of financial information. This English version is a translation of the original in Spanish for information purposes only. In case of discrepancy the original in Spanish shall prevail.

Annual Corporate Governance Report of BBVA .69.. Similarly, while overseeing the main financial information of the Bank and its Group, the Committee also analyzed the Group’s main tax figures, monitoring, inter alia, the real tax rate, total tax risk, the tax position on capital, as well as the main criteria used, the main decisions made and the impact on the Group’s financial information. Regarding external audit With regards to activities related to the external audit, the Committee maintained appropriate relationships with the heads of the external auditor, during each of the monthly meetings it held, in order to ascertain the planning, stage and progress of the Annual Plan established for performing its engagements in connection with the audit of the Bank’s and Group’s Annual Financial Statements, of the interim financial statements, and of other financial information subject to review as part of the statutory auditing process. Moreover, the Committee received from the external auditor and examined the audit opinions, the limited review opinion reports and communications required by auditing legislation. Among them, it is worth mentioning the engagement performed on the core financial reporting of the Group; other regulatory engagements required by the regulations applicable to the external auditor; and the confirmations on its independence with respect to the Bank and the companies of its Group. In relation to the independence required of the external auditor, the Committee ensured that its work is carried out freely, without interaction and with the full cooperation of the Group’s management,