6.1 Basis of preparation

General information

PostNL N.V. (hereafter referred to as ‘the company’) is a public limited liability company with its registered seat and head office at Waldorpstraat 3, 2521 CA, The Hague, the Netherlands. The Chamber of Commerce number is 27124700.

Accounting principles applied

The corporate financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Part 9 of Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code, where PostNL makes use of the option in Article 362 (8) to use the same accounting principles on recognition and measurement as applied in the consolidated financial statements.

PostNL’s investment in subsidiaries in the corporate financial statements are accounted for according to the equity method with the principles for the recognition and measurement of assets and liabilities and determination of results as set out in the notes to the consolidated financial statements. The share in the result of investments in subsidiaries consists of the share of the Company in the result of these investments in subsidiaries. Results on transactions involving the transfer of assets and liabilities between the Company and its investments in subsidiaries and mutually between investments in subsidiaries themselves, are eliminated to the extent that they can be considered as not realised.

The Company makes use of the option to eliminate intragroup expected credit losses against the book value of loans and receivables from the Company to investments in subsidiaries, instead of elimination against the equity value of the investments in subsidiaries.

As under Dutch GAAP a legal reserve for investments in subsidiaries is applicable, PostNL performed an assessment concluding no earnings restrictions are present that would otherwise require a legal reserve for investments in subsidiaries.