a— The company shall have an auditor or more to be appointed from those licensed to practise auditing by the ordinary general assembly, which shall determine their remuneration and term of appointment. The founders of the company may appoint an auditor to carry out auditing until the constituent general assembly is held. If more than one auditor is appointed, each of them shall exercise auditing separately. If the auditor appointed by the general assembly has not assumed his duties for any reason, the board of directors may, if necessary, appoint another auditor to replace him, provided that the matter shall be presented to the general assembly at its next meeting to resolve it.

b— If there is more than one auditor, they shall be jointly liable for auditing.

c— The auditor shall not be the chairman or a member of the board of directors of the company the accounts of which he is auditing, nor a managing director nor a person assuming any administrative work or supervising its accounts; nor a second-degree relative of a person supervising the company's management or accounts. He shall not also buy or sell shares in the companies the accounts of which he is auditing during his term.