Jan Peter Balkenellende schreef op 17 februari 2021 21:23:
Alles in wv genomen, moooi om windt wat te verlagen. Anders staat de overheid en de press in dit jaar direct op de stoep.
Moving on to slide 22, where you see the underlying segment performance for the full year and 2020. Now, I'll look at what you've seen in terms of all of the announcements we've made on pensions in recent months. Up on chart 23, you see a summary of our activities on this important front. We've committed over €1.4 billion in the US to improve the security of pension benefits for associates and significantly reduced financial risks for the group going forward. This relates to withdrawing from and settling our largest US multi-employer pension plans. We took the full charge for these liabilities in our P&L in the second half of 2020 of which €841 million was taken in the fourth quarter and was excluded from underlying operating income.
In terms of cash impacts we paid €487 million in 2020 of which €470 million was paid out in the fourth quarter. Together, these plans represented about 90% of the year-end 2019 deficit for all of our U.S. multi-employer pension plans as disclosed in our 2019 Annual Report. We'll disclose an update on this on the 2020 report, which will be released on March 3. But suffice it to say, you'll see a significantly improved profile here.