With regard to the news agency report headlined “Guido Rossi eliminates Security”, which refers to an article from the weekly magazine L’Espresso out tomorrow, Telecom Italia states that the Security function has not undergone any change in the new re-organization. In fact, its place in the company structure remains the same as that designated on 23 January 2006, when then Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera decided to align it with the Human Resources function. Today, as then, therefore, the Security function reports to the head of Human resources, Mr. Gustavo Bracco.
Milan, 21 September 2006