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This excerpt taken from the TAM 20-F filed Sep 1, 2009.

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

     We carried out an evaluation under the supervision of and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the year ended December 31, 2007. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports or filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are properly recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods required by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Our management applied its judgment in assessing the costs and benefits of such controls and procedures that, by their nature, can provide only reasonable assurance regarding management’s control objectives. Our management does not expect that its disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors or frauds. A control system, irrespective of how well it is designed and operated, can only provide reasonable assurance and cannot guarantee that it will succeed in its stated objectives.

     As a result of this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2007, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed in our filings and submissions under the Exchange Act had been recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information was accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions about required disclosure.

     After filing our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007, we reassessed our accounting practices with respect to our consolidated statement of cash flows and concluded that we had to restate our financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2007 in order to correct a material error pursuant to which a non-cash item was reported in our consolidated statement of cash flows, as described more fully in Note 2(s) to our restated financial statements included as part of this amended annual report for the year ended December 31, 2007.

     As a result of this reassessment and restatement, we re-evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007 and concluded that a material weakness existed in our internal control over financial reporting with respect to the proper exclusion of non-cash items from our consolidated statement of cash flows. Accordingly, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have now concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2007.

     After completion of the procedures to reconcile and review cash flow transactions (including the proper exclusion of non-cash items) in order to determine the accuracy and completeness of such transactions, our management concluded that our consolidated financial statements included as part of this annual report on Form 20-F/A are fairly stated in accordance with applicable generally accepted accounting principles.

This excerpt taken from the TAM 20-F filed Jun 30, 2009.

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

     We carried out an evaluation under the supervision of and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, including those defined in United States Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e), as of the year ended December 31, 2008. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective controls and procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives. As a result of this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2008, and that the information required to be disclosed in our filings and submissions under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions about required disclosure.

This excerpt taken from the TAM 20-F filed Jun 25, 2008.

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

     We carried out an evaluation under the supervision of and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the year ended December 31, 2007. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective controls and procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives. As a result of this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2007, and that the information required to be disclosed in our filings and submissions under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions about required disclosure.

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