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13.6 Independent assurance report
To the Supervisory Board and Shareholders of Koninklijke Philips
Electronics N.V.:
Introduction
We have been engaged by the Supervisory Board of Koninklijke Philips
Electronics N.V. to provide limited assurance on the section
Sustainability performance in the Annual Report 2009. The Board of
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of
the Sustainability performance section. Our responsibility is to provide
limited assurance on this information contained in this Annual Report.
Scope
Our engagement was designed to provide limited assurance on whether
the information in chapter 13, Sustainability performance, of this Annual
Report is fairly stated, in all material respects.
Procedures performed to obtain a limited level of assurance are aimed
at determining the plausibility of data and are less extensive than those
for a reasonable level of assurance. Our procedures included reviewing
systems and processes for data management, assessing the
appropriateness of the accounting policies used, assessing the data
collection and reporting process at a limited number of sites and
evaluating the overall presentation of sustainability information within
our scope.
We have also reviewed, to the extent of our competence, whether
section 4.3, Sustainability, of this Annual Report is consistent with the
information in the section Sustainability performance.
Reporting criteria
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. applies the Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (G3) together with internal
corporate guidelines, as detailed in Approach to sustainability reporting
in chapter 13, Sustainability performance, of this Annual Report. It is
important to view the performance data in the context of this
explanatory information. We believe that these criteria are suitable in
view of the purpose of our assurance engagement.
Standards
We conducted our engagement in accordance with the International
Standard for Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000: Assurance
Engagements other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial
Information, issued by the International Auditing and Assurance
Standards Board. Amongst others, this standard requires that the
assurance team members possess the specific knowledge, skills and
professional competencies needed to understand and review the
information and that they comply with ethical requirements, including
independence requirements.
Conclusion
Based on our work described in this report, the information in chapter
13, Sustainability performance, of this Annual Report does not, in all
material respects, appear to be unfairly stated in accordance with the
criteria described in Approach to sustainability reporting in the section
Sustainability performance in this Annual Report.
We also report, to the extent of our competence, that section 4.3,
Sustainability, of this Annual Report is consistent with the section
Sustainability performance.
Amstelveen, February 22, 2010
KPMG Accountants N.V.
M.A. Soeting RA
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