Judgment and disclosure with respect to deferred tax assets
Under EU-IFRS, Royal DSM is required to annually review the
valuation of the deferred tax positions. This was important to our
audit because the assessment process is judgmental and
amongst other based on assumptions that are affected by future
market or economic conditions. Management concluded that it
is not probable that all deferred tax assets will be realized within
the foreseeable future and therefore recognized only those
assets for which recovery was deemed probable, which has
been disclosed in note 7.