Auditors’ Report ..............................U To the annual meeting of the shareholders of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ); Corporate registration number 502032-9081 We have audited the annual accounts, the consolidated accounts, the accounting records and the administration of the board of directors and the managing director of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) for the year 2007. The company’s annual accounts are included in the printed version of this document on pages 20–41 and 53–124. The board of directors and the managing director are responsible for these accounts and the administration of the company as well as for the application of Annual Accounts Act for Credit Institutions and Securities Companies when preparing the annual accounts and the application of international financial reporting standards IFRSs as adopted by the EU and Annual Accounts Act for Credit Institutions and Securities Companies when preparing the consolidated accounts. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the annual accounts, the consolidated accounts and the administration based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards in Sweden. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance that the annual accounts and the consolidated accounts are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the accounts. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and their application by the board of directors and the managing director and significant estimates made by the board of directors and the managing director when preparing the annual accounts and consolidated accounts as well as evaluating the overall presentation of information in the annual accounts and the consolidated accounts. As a basis for our opinion concerning discharge from liability, we examined significant decisions, actions taken and circumstances of the company in order to be able to determine the liability, if any, to the company of any board member or the managing director. We also examined whether any board member or the managing director has, in any other way, acted in contravention of the Companies Act, Banking and Financing Business Act, Annual Accounts Act for Credit Institutions and Securities Companies or the Articles of Association. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion set out below. The annual accounts have been prepared in accordance with Annual Accounts Act for Credit Institutions and Securities Companies and give a true and fair view of the company’s financial position and results of operations in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in Sweden. The consolidated accounts have been prepared in accordance with international financial reporting standards IFRSs as adopted by the EU and Annual Accounts Act for Credit Institutions and Securities Companies and give a true and fair view of the group’s financial position and results of operations. The statutory administration report is consistent with the other parts of the annual accounts and the consolidated accounts. We recommend to the annual meeting of shareholders that the income statements and balance sheets of the parent company and the group be adopted, that the profit of the parent company be dealt with in accordance with the proposal in the administration report and that the members of the board of directors and the managing director be discharged from liability for the financial year. Stockholm 6 March, 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers AB Peter Clemedtson Peter Nyllinge Authorised Public Accountant Authorised Public Accountant Partner in charge SEB ANNUAL REPORT 2007 125
