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 Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses
 m
2010 2011
Amortisation of intangible assets, excluding
the impairment of goodwill 288 306
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
Land and buildings (including leasehold
improvements) 190 175
Technical equipment and machinery 228 233
Other equipment, operating and o ce
equipment, vehicle fl eet 432 418
Aircraft 158 142
Advance payments 0 0
1,008 968
1,296 1,274
Impairment of goodwill 0 0
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment
losses 1,296 1,274
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses declined
by   million year-on-year to  , million.  is  gure includes
impairment losses of   million (previous year:   million).  e
impairment losses are attributable to the segments as follows:
Impairment losses on non-current assets
 m
2010 2011
 17 31
Intangible assets 4 29
Property, plant and equipment 13 2
of which technical equipment and machinery 10 1
 24 6
Intangible assets 1 0
Property, plant and equipment 23 6
of which land and buildings 1 0
of which transport equipment 0 2
of which aircraft 21 1
  4 13
Intangible assets 1 0
Property, plant and equipment 3 13
of which land and buildings
(including leasehold improvements) 2 7
of which technical equipment and machinery 1 6
Corporate Center / Other 13 0
Property, plant and equipment 13 0
of which land and buildings 13 0
Impairment losses 58 50
 e impairment losses on intangible assets included in the
 segment mainly relate to so ware that is no longer in use.
 e transport equipment impairment losses disclosed for the -
 segment are due to the reclassi cation of the domestic ex-
press business in Australia and China as assets held for sale in ac-
cordance with  ; Notes  and .
 Staff costs / employees
 m
2010 2011
Wages, salaries and compensation 13,271 13,350
of which expenses under Share Matching Scheme 33 35
of which expenses from   Plan /  21 24
Social security contributions 1,973 2,022
Retirement benefi t expenses 947 915
Expenses for other employee benefi ts 275 317
Expenses for severance payments 143 126
Staff costs 16,609 16,730
  million of the expenses under the Share Matching
Scheme (previous year:   million) is attributable to cash-settled
share-based payments and   million (previous year:   mil-
lion) to equity-settled transactions.
Sta costs relate mainly to wages, salaries and compensation,
as well as all other bene ts paid to employees of the Group for their
services in the year under review. Social security contributions
relate in particular to statutory social security contributions paid
by employers.
With the exception of interest unwinding of discounts recog-
nised in net  nancial income / net  nance costs, retirement bene t
expenses include additions to provisions for pensions and similar
obligations as well as contributions to de ned contribution pen-
sion plans. Detailed information can be found in Notes ,  and .
 e average number of Group employees in the year under
review, broken down by employee group, was as follows:
Employees
2010 2011
Hourly workers and salaried employees 413,830 418,375
Civil servants 46,866 44,421
Trainees 3,775 4,392
Employees 464,471 467,188
 e employees of companies acquired or disposed of during
the year under review were included rateably. Calculated as full-
time equivalents, the number of employees as at  December 
amounted to , ( December : ,).  e number
of employees at consolidated joint ventures amounted to , on a
proportionate basis (previous year: ,).
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