EXHIBIT 99.2
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          STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER REGARDING
            FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Raj L. Gupta, state and attest that:
     (1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
          reports of Rohm and Haas Company ("Company"), and, except as corrected
          or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:
          o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and
          o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).
     (2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Audit
          Committee of the Company's Board of Directors.
     (3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
          before the date of this statement, is a "covered report:"
          o    the Company's Annual Report for 2001 on Form 10-K filed with the
               Securities and Exchange Commission on March 26, 2002;
          o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of Rohm and Haas Company filed with
               the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K
               identified above; and
          o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.



/s/ Raj L. Gupta
- ------------------------------------          Subscribed and sworn to before
Raj L. Gupta                                  me this 13 day of August, 2002
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Rohm and Haas Company
August 13, 2002                               ----------------------------------
                                              Notary Public
                                              My Commission Expires: