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Notes to Consolidated Balance Sheets 101
The following information with respect to the
Group’s pension plans is presented by German Plans
and non-German Plans (principally comprised of plans
in the U.S.):
A reconciliation of the funded status to the
amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets
is as follows:
Change in projected
benefit obligations:
Projected benefit
obligations at
beginning of year
Foreign currency
exchange rate
changes
Service cost
Interest cost
Plan amendments
Actuarial (gains)
losses
Dispositions
Acquisitions and
other
Settlement/
curtailment loss
Benefits paid
Projected benefit obli-
gations at end of year
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan
assets at beginning
of year
Foreign currency
exchange rate
changes
Actual return on
plan assets
Employer
contributions
Plan participant
contributions
Dispositions
Acquisitions and
other
Benefits paid
Fair value of plan
assets at end of year
At December 31,
2001
German
Plans
9,579 21,878 13,123 19,578
– 1,026 – 1,403
198 404 242 433
612 1,696 696 1,570
1109 2148
613 563 (732) (257)
(179) (765) (3,365) (31)
140 25 144 411
2964 ––
(483) (1,761) (531) (1,377)
10,483 24,139 9,579 21,878
7,908 25,962 7,034 25,823
–1,199 –1,897
(720) (1,309) 458 (755)
713 843 1,419 30
–25 –29
– (865) (579) –
–17(15) 303
(398) (1,747) (409) (1,365)
7,503 24,125 7,908 25,962
German
Plans
Non-
German
Plans
Non-
German
Plans
2000
At December 31, At December 31,
2001
German
Plans
Non-
German
Plans
Non-
German
Plans
2000
Funded status*)
Unrecognized
actuarial net gains
(losses)
Unrecognized prior
service cost
Unrecognized net
obligation at date of
initial application
Net liability (asset)
recognized
Amounts recognized
in the consolidated
balance sheets
consist of:
Prepaid pension
cost
Accrued pension
liability
Intangible assets
Accumulated other
comprehensive
income
Net liability (asset)
recognized
At December 31,
2,980 14 1,671 (4,084)
(2,168) (4,112) (123) 1,102
(5) (3,261) (8) (3,496)
–(24) –(153)
807 (7,383) 1,540 (6,631)
– (7,584) – (6,799)
2,164 448 1,540 298
–(137) – (95)
(1,357) (110) – (35)
807 (7,383) 1,540 (6,631)
German
Plans
*) Difference between the projected benefit obligations and
the fair value of plan assets.
(in millions of €) (in millions of €)