29 Service fees paid to external auditors
The service fees recognized in the financial statements 2021 for the services of KPMG amounted to €5.8 million (2020: €5.7 million). The amounts per service category are shown in the following table.
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Total service fee |
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Of which |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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KPMG |
|
KPMG |
|
KPMG NL |
|
KPMG NL |
|
|
2021 |
|
2020 |
|
2021 |
|
2020 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Audit of the Group financial statements |
|
4.5 |
|
4.5 |
|
3.0 |
|
3.0 |
Audit of other (statutory) financial statements |
|
0.7 |
|
0.6 |
|
0.1 |
|
- |
Other assurance services |
|
0.6 |
|
0.6 |
|
0.6 |
|
0.6 |
Total assurance services |
|
5.8 |
|
5.7 |
|
3.7 |
|
3.6 |
The service fees mentioned in the table for the audit of the financial statements 2021 (2020) relate to the total fees for the audit of the financial statements 2021 (2020), irrespective of whether the activities have been performed during the financial year 2021 (2020).
KPMG did not provide any non-assurance services in 2021 (2020: similar). The other assurance services rendered by KPMG in 2021 include assurance engagements on non-financial information, and on internal controls of DSM Pension Services, assurance engagements on government grants and regulatory filings, as well as agreed-upon procedures on certain information for the Remuneration Committee of Royal DSM and the pension fund and their external auditor.