Assurance report
To the readers of the Trelleborg Corporate Responsibility Report 2007
At the request of the management of Trelleborg AB (publ), we have performed a limited review of the performanceindicators CO2 emissions (page 18), VOC emissions (page 19), Total waste (page 21), Workrelatedaccidents (page 22), Training hours per employee (page 25), and Sustainability-related expenditures(page 29) in the Trelleborg Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report 2007.
The purpose of our limited review is to express whether we have found any indication that the informationis not, in all material aspects, reported in accordance with the criteria developed and stated by Trelleborg.The limited review has been performed in accordance with the FAR SRS (the institute for the accountancyprofession in Sweden) draft standard on independent limited reviews of voluntary separate sustainabilityreports.
Sustainability issues and any reporting thereon are the responsibility of Trelleborg Group Management.Trelleborg’s Corporate Communications assumes the overall responsibility for the external reporting of sustainabilityinformation, while Group Legal, Corporate Communications and Human Resources functionsare responsible for gathering the information. Our task is to express an opinion, based on our limited review,on the selected performance indicators on the above-mentioned pages of the Trelleborg CR Report 2007. It is also our task to express an opinion on the B+ GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Application Level, whichhas been self-declared by Trelleborg on page 2 of the CR Report 2007.
The selected performance indicators have been prepared in accordance with Trelleborg’s principles forcalculation and disclosure, which also constitute the criteria upon which our limited review has been based.Trelleborg’s self-declaration of GRI Application Level B+ is based on the GRI Guidelines and guidance onApplication Level, which also form the criteria for our review.
The scope of our limited review procedures included the following activities:
- Discussions with management to obtain information on material incidents and activities during the periodto which the report pertains.
- Review of the principles for calculation and disclosure of the selected performance indicators.
- Overall review of the Group’s systems and routines for the registration, accounting and reporting of theselected performance indicators.
- Visits to two sites (Houston, USA and Skellefteå, Sweden) and to relevant departments at Group level inorder to assess whether the performance indicators, in all material aspects, are reported and aggregated in astandardised format and in accordance with Trelleborg’s reporting principles.
- Review of underlying documentation, on a test basis, to assess whether the selected performance indicatorsin the Trelleborg CR Report 2007 are based on that documentation.
- Review of the contents of the Trelleborg CR Report 2007 in relation to the criteria for Application LevelB+ in the GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
We have reported the ongoing results of our review to Corporate Communications and to the Environmentdepartment within Group Legal.
Based on our limited review procedures, nothing has come to our attention that leads us to believe thateither the performance indicators CO2 emissions, VOC emissions, Total waste, Work-related accidents,Training hours per employee, and Sustainability-related expenditures on the above-mentioned pages, or theApplication Level B+ self-declared by Trelleborg in the CR Report 2007, have not, in all material aspects,been prepared in accordance with the above stated criteria.
