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Schneider Electric Industries SAS
Sustainable Development Department
89, boulevard Franklin Roosevelt
92500 Rueil-Malmaison - France
To the shareholders,
In our capacity as Statutory Auditors of Schneider
Electric and as requested, we have reviewed the pro-
cedures used to collect the environmental and human
resources data (employees and lost days) for 2005
published in the Business Review and Registration
Document.
Schneider Electric’s senior management was respon-
sible for preparing those procedures, as well as the
social and environmental information provided in
these reports. Our responsibility is to report our con-
clusions based on the review described below.
Nature and scope of our review
As agreed, we planned and performed our work as fol-
lows:
We reviewed the procedures to verify that they are
appropriate, exhaustive, accurate, objective and clear
with regard to Schneider Electric’s businesses.
We interviewed the individuals in charge of the
human resources and environmental data collection
systems to obtain further information on the proce-
dures and test their application.
We toured three sites–Le Vaudreuil (France),
Beaumont-Le-Roger (France) and Sant Boi (Spain)–
to assess understanding of the procedures and the
level to which the reporting system has been integrat-
ed on site.
We used teams specialized in sustainable develop-
ment to perform this work.
In accordance with the International Standard on
Assurance Engagements (ISAE), a review of this type
does not include all of the verifications performed in
an audit that would allow us to provide assurance. It
does, however, allow us to form conclusions about the
procedures.
Conclusions
Collection procedures have been formalized for
human resources and environmental data. These pro-
cedures are appropriate references, assuming that
rules for updating the list of units and sites taken into
account in case of an acquisition or divestment are
specified.
The procedures have been distributed to all the
businesses and country organizations concerned by
data reporting.
Continued work to improve reporting reliability will
require a more detailed identification of the type of
waste produced at the site level and a more specific
definition of the recovery rate.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, March 20, 2006
Barbier Frinault & Autres Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young Environment and
Sustainability Services
Pierre Jouanne Eric Duvaud
Outside opinion on Schneider Electric’s procedures
for collecting human resources and environmental data
Free translation of the original report in French
Corporate Sustainability Assessment 2005
Schneider Electric SA -
Member of DJSI World & DJSI STOXX
S
chneider Electric’s economic, social and environmen-
tal performance compared with the sector average.
ELQ Electric components and equipment
Schneider Average Benchmark
Electric
(%) (%) (%)
Economic Dimension 76 57 79
Environmental Dimension 69 39 70
Social Dimension 57 40 64
Total 66 44 66
Planet & Society barometer
Be included in the four major socially responsible
investment index families.