I. The scope of this report

• The financial information contained in this report has been taken from AEGON’s 2007 Annual Report and refers to all AEGON companies. All financial and employee information is identical to that contained in AEGON’s 2007 Annual Report;
• Unless otherwise stated, environmental and social information refers to all AEGON operations around the world. Only those joint ventures where AEGON does not have management control are excluded;
• This report covers the full year 2007 unless specifically stated otherwise. AEGON’s previous Corporate Responsibility Report was published in April 2007;
• This 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report was developed by the Group Corporate Communications department, part of AEGON’s Group Corporate Communications and Investor Relations division;
• AEGON welcomes opinions on both the content of this report and the Group’s overall performance in the corporate and social responsibility field. Comments and opinions should be sent to: response@aegon.com;
• The contents of this report are based on the result of comprehensive reporting from AEGON country units. These units are responsible for collecting and submitting all data used in this report. All information is aggregated at Group level;
• AEGON’s 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report contains information for the first time from the Group’s businesses in China and India. It should be noted, however, that AEGON’s operations in India only began in early 2008 and that information from India had no material effect on aggregate data used in this report.