TEL’s Credo on Environmental Preservation

TEL’s Safety and Health Credo< TEL’s Credo on Environmental Preventation >< TEL’s Safety and Health Credo >The Tokyo Electron Group believes that preserving and continuously improving the global environment is one of the mostimportant objectives for mankind, as well as our business.
Based on this credo, we are determined to expand our business by maintaining harmony with the global environment,
and thus win the trust of our many customers, shareholders,
employees and society in general.

Safety and health training are required for all employees andboard members at TEL. Our profit delivery date requirements,and time limitations must not be met at the sacrifice of humanlife and the safety of our facilities and equipment.

< TEL’s Principles on Environmental Preservation include: >1. Continuous Improvement
TEL recognizes that the products we manufacture affect theenvironment, and therefore, we, with our customers andsuppliers, shall continually strive to minimize the environmental impact of our processes and operations.
2. Knowledge
TEL continually strives to enhance its understanding of theimpact that TEL’s operations have on the environment, andthe responsibility that this entails. In addition, TEL aims togain a quantitative grasp of environmental factors, and theimpacts resulting from our activities and operations.
3. Performance Criteria
As well as strictly observing mandatory environmental
laws, treaties and agreements, TEL strives to enhance its
own environmental management system and improve global environmental preservation programs by the proactive
establishment of its own aggressive environmental performance criteria.
4. Disclosure
TEL shares information about its environmental concepts
and principles, as well as the progress of our ongoing contributions toward environmental protection with employees
and the general public.
5. Partnership
TEL actively participates in environmental protection activities practiced by our customers, suppliers and local communities.

< TEL’s Principles on Safety and Health Preservation include:>
1. Continuous Improvement
TEL is conscious that the factors that affect the safety andhealth of customers and our employees exist at the stage ofmanufacturing, transportation, installation, use, maintenance and service of our products, and based on this awareness, we shall continually strive to eliminate factors that
impede the safety and health of our products.
2. Knowledge
TEL continually strives to enhance our understanding ofsafety and health and improve these conditions for all people working in our sites. In addition, TEL aims to gain qualitative and quantitative grasps of safety and health factors
on TEL Group activities and operations.
3. Performance Criteria
As well as strictly observing mandatory safety and healthlaws, treaties and agreements, TEL strives to enhance its
own safety and health management system and improveglobal safety and health programs by the proactive establishment of aggressive safety and health performance criteria.
4. Disclosure
TEL shares information about its safety and health credo,policies and the progress of our safety and health activities
with all board members and employees, and publish thegeneral public our progress as the need arises.
5. Partnership
TEL actively participates in safety and health activities practiced by our customers, suppliers and communities.

September 25, 1998

Editorial Policy
Tokyo Electron (TEL) has published an environmental report every year since FY 2001 todescribe our efforts in the issues of the environment, health and safety and our social contribution activities. In addition to those topics,
this year our report also covers our social activities. We have prepared this report to be as
easy as possible to read and understand sothat our readers can get a good grasp of TEL’sactivities. Our goal in publishing these reports
is to expand the scope of communication witheveryone affected by or otherwise concernedwith TEL. All readers are invited to tell us youropinions and impressions of this report andTEL, so that the editors can more adequately
address your concerns in future reports.
In the planning of this report, we haveused the Environmental Reporting Guidelines(2003) released by the Japan Environmental
Ministry and the 2002 Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI), an organization that provides international sustainability report guidelines.

2TOKYO ELECTRON Environmental and Social Report 2005

November 27, 1998

Scope
Organizations covered: Tokyo Electron Group<Japan>Tokyo Electron Ltd., Tokyo Electron AT Ltd., Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd.,Tokyo Electron Software Technologies Ltd., Tokyo Electron FE Ltd.,Tokyo Electron Device Ltd., Tokyo Electron BP Ltd., Tokyo Electron Agency Ltd.
<North America>

Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, Inc., Tokyo Electron America, Inc.,Tokyo Electron Massachusetts, LLC., TEL Technology Center, America, LLC.,
Supercritical Systems, Inc., Timbre Technologies, Inc.
<Europe>Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd., Tokyo Electron Israel Ltd.
<Asia>

Tokyo Electron Korea Ltd., Tokyo Electron Taiwan Ltd.,Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Ltd., Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Logistic Center Ltd.
(Company names as of August 2005)
Period covered: April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005
Areas covered: Environment, Society and Business
Updated reports on our environmental and social activities will be issued every year.