Evaluation of the Board

The Board of Directors must ensure that its work is evaluated annually.

The Board of Directors shall ensure that its work is evaluated annually. During the autumn of 2009, the Board’s work was evaluated with the assistance of an independent consulting company. The Nominating Committee was informed of the result of the evaluation.

Composition of the Board of Directors and committees and number of meetings and attendance during 2009:

Table data
	Audit Committee	Compensation Committee	Board of Directors
Total number of meetings	5	7	7
Conny Karlsson		7	7
Charles A. Blixt		7	7
Andrew Cripps	5		7
Karen Guerra			6
Arne Jurbrant		7	6
Kersti Strandqvist	5		7
Meg Tivéus	5	2	7
Kenneth Ek			7
Eva Larsson			7
Joakim Lindström			7
Håkan Johansson			7
Eeva Kazemi Vala			7
Gert-Inge Rang			7

Independence of Board members

All of the Board members are considered to be independent under the rules of the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance in relation to the Company’s major shareholders and in relation to the management and the Company.