Annual Report 2009
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Independent assurance report

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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 Sustainability performance 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 Sustainability 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 Sustainability performance. 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 Sustainability performance 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 Sustainability is consistent with the section Sustainability performance.

Amstelveen, February 22, 2010

KPMG Accountants N.V.

M.A. Soeting RA

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This is an interactive electronic version of the Philips Annual Report 2009 and also contains certain information in summarized form. The contents of this version are qualified in their entirety by reference to the printed version of the Philips Annual Report 2009. The printed version is available as a PDF file on this website. Information about: forward-looking statements, third-party market share data, fair value information, IFRS basis of presentation, use of non-GAAP information, statutory financial statements and management report, reclassifications and analysis of 2008 compared to 2007.
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