Annual Report 2023

4.1 New standards, interpretations and amendments to published standards that have been approved and published by the European Union and are effective on or after 1 January 2023

STANDARD /
INTERPRETATION
DESCRIPTION
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
IFRS 17
‘Insurance contracts’
The new standard requires insurance liabilities to be measured at a current fulfilment value and provides a more uniform measurement and presentation approach for all insurance contracts. These requirements are designed to achieve the goal of a consistent, principle-based accounting for insurance contracts. IFRS 17 supersedes IFRS 4 ‘Insurance Contracts’ and related interpretations while applied.
The Group analysed the products offered, whether they meet the definition of insurance contracts in the light of IFRS 17. The results of the analysis show that the products offered by the Group do not carry significant insurance risk and are not insurance contracts. Thus, the new standard did not have a material impact on the financial statements in the period of their first application.
IAS 1 (amendment)
Presentation of financial statement’ and ‘IFRS Practice Statement 2: Disclosure of accounting policies’

The amendments to IAS 1 include:

  • an entity is required to disclose its material accounting policy information instead of its significant accounting policies,
  • clarification that accounting policy information may be material because of its nature, even if the related amounts are immaterial,
  • clarification that accounting policy information is material if users of an entity’s financial statements would need it to understand other material information in the financial statements, and
  • clarification that if an entity discloses immaterial accounting policy information, such information shall not obscure material accounting policy information
The standard’s amendments did not have a material impact on the financial statements in the period of their first application.
IAS 8 (amendment)
‘Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors’

The amendments to IAS 8 include:

  • the definition of a change in accounting estimates is replaced with a definition of accounting estimates. Under the new definition, accounting estimates are “monetary amounts in financial statements that are subject to measurement uncertainty,
  • clarification that a change in accounting estimate that results from new information or new developments is not the correction of an error. In addition, the effects of a change in an input or a measurement technique used to develop an accounting estimate are changes in accounting estimates if they do not result from the correction of prior period errors,
  • clarification that a change in an accounting estimate may affect only the current period’s profit or loss, or the profit or loss of both the current period and future periods. The effect of the change relating to the current period is recognized as income or expense in the current period. The effect, if any, on future periods is recognized as income or expense in those future periods.
The standard’s amendments did not have a material impact on the financial statements in the period of their first application.

IAS 12 (amendment) ‘Income taxes’

The amendments introduce the requirement to recognise deferred tax on transactions that, on initial recognition, give rise to equal amounts of taxable and deductible temporary differences. The amendments will mainly apply to transactions such as leases for the lessee and decommissioning obligations.
The standard’s amendments did not have a material impact on the financial statements in the period of their first application..
IFRS 17 (amendment)
‘Insurance contracts’ and
IFRS 9 (amendment)
‘Financial instruments’
The main amendment regards entities that first apply IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 at the same time. The amendment regards financial assets for which comparative information is presented on initial application of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9, but where this information has not been restated for IFRS 9. Under the amendment, an entity is permitted to present comparative information about a financial asset as if the classification and measurement requirements of IFRS 9 had been applied to that financial asset before. In applying the classification overlay to a financial asset, an entity is not required to apply the impairment requirements of IFRS 9. There are no changes to the transition requirements in IFRS 9.
The change in standards does not apply to the Group, which has already applied IFRS 9.

IAS 12 (amendment) ‘Income taxes’

The amendments give companies temporary relief from accounting for deferred taxes arising from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (‘OECD’) international tax reform. The OECD published the Pillar Two model rules in December 2021 to ensure that large multinational companies would be subject to a minimum 15% tax rate.

The amendments to IAS 12 include:

  • an exception to the requirements in IAS 12 that an entity does not recognise and does not disclose information about deferred tax assets and liabilities related to the OECD pillar two income taxes. An entity has to disclose that it has applied the exception,
  • a disclosure requirement that an entity has to disclose separately its current tax expense (income) related to pillar two income taxes,
  • a disclosure requirement that state that in periods in which pillar two legislation is enacted or substantively enacted, but not yet in effect, an entity discloses known or reasonably estimable information that helps users of financial statements understand the entity’s exposure to pillar two income taxes arising from that legislation,
  • The requirement that an entity applies the exception and the requirement to disclose that it has applied the exception immediately upon issuance of the amendments and retrospectively in accordance with IAS 8. The remaining disclosure requirements are required for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023.
The standard’s amendments did not have a material impact on the financial statements in the period of their first application.

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