The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements present the financial position and the result of the operations of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. and its subsidiaries (“EADS” or the “Group”), a Dutch public limited liability company (Naamloze Vennootschap) legally seated in Amsterdam (Le Carré, Beechavenue 130-132, 1119 PR, Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands). EADS’ core business is the manufacturing of commercial aircraft, civil helicopters, commercial space launch vehicles, missiles, military aircraft, satellites, defence systems and defence electronics and rendering of services related to these activities. EADS has its listings at the European Stock Exchanges in Paris, Frankfurt and Madrid. The Consolidated Financial Statements were authorised for issue by EADS’ Board of Directors on 10^th March 2008, are prepared and reported in Euro (“€”), and all values are rounded to the nearest million appropriately, unless otherwise stated.