4.3.18Trade and Other Receivables

Trade and other receivables (summary)

The maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date is the carrying amount of each class of receivables as mentioned above. The Company does not hold any collateral as security.

The carrying amounts of the Company’s trade debtors are distributed in the following countries:

Trade debtors (countries where Company’s trade debtors are distributed)

The trade debtors balance is the nominal value less an allowance for estimated impairment losses as follows:

Trade debtors (trade debtors balance)

The allowance for impairment represents the Company’s estimate of losses in respect of trade debtors. The allowance is built on specific expected loss components that relate to individual exposures. The creation and release for impaired trade debtors have been included in gross margin in the income statement. Amounts charged to the allowance account are generally written off when there is no expectation of recovery. The other classes within the trade and other receivables do not contain allowances for impairment.

The ageing of the nominal amounts of the trade debtors are:

Trade debtors (ageing of the nominal amounts of the trade debtors)

Not past due are those receivables for which either the contractual or ’normal’ payment date has not yet elapsed. Past due are those amounts for which either the contractual or the ’normal’ payment date has passed. Amounts that are past due but not impaired relate to a number of Company joint ventures and independent customers for whom there is no recent history of default or the receivable amount can be offset by amounts included in current liabilities.

The decrease of trade debtors past due by more than one year is mainly related to the reclassification of a receivable on a joint venture to ’Non-current portion of other receivables’.