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Financial Statements 2006

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as at 31 december 2006 (before appropriation of net profit)

  in millions of Euro 2006 2005 *
Non-current assets    
4  Investments in subsidiaries 988 849
Loans and receivables   1
Deferred tax assets 1 7
  989 857
5  Receivables 373 755
Current liabilities -208 -586
   1,154 1,026
Financed by:     
6  Shareholders equity 1,154 1,026


General information

Vedior N.V. is a company domiciled in the Netherlands and is quoted on the stock exchange of Euronext Amsterdam and included in the AEX index. The Company financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2006 comprise the Company only. All information in these financial statements is in millions of Euro, unless stated otherwise.


Change of accounting policy

As of 2006 Vedior has changed the accounting policy for put options of minority shareholders that have rights to sell their minority interest to Vedior. For an explanation for this change of accounting policy please refer to this page. The accounting policy change effects the Company’s profit for the year and the Company’s equity as set out below. For the part of the profit and equity that will not be distributable to shareholders of Vedior N.V. a legal reserve is accounted for in the Company’s equity. The comparative information has been restated for comparison purposes.

2006 2005
Effect on income statement      
Profit for the period 178 154
Effect change of accounting policy 8 4
Profit for the period 186 158
 

2005
Effect on equity    
Balance equity as at 1 January   850
Effect change of accounting policy   19
Balance equity as at 1 January 869


Company accounting principles

With reference to Article 362 paragraph 8 Volume 2 of the Dutch Civil Code, the Company financial statements have been prepared using the same accounting principles as for the consolidated financial statements. These accounting principles are included from pages 56 to 64. Subsidiaries are accounted for at net asset value. In accordance with Article 402, Volume 2 of the Dutch Civil Code, the information in the Company financial statements and accompanying notes are condensed. With reference to Article 379, paragraph 5 Volume 2 of the Dutch Civil Code, the Company has deposited a list of its capital interests at the office of the Commercial Register in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

See note 26 on this page for the contingencies and guarantees of Vedior N.V.

Investments in subsidiaries

2006 2005
Position as at 1 January 849 597
Effect of accounting policy change   19
Share in result of subsidiaries 170 150
Acquisition of subsidiary   30
Exchange differences -31 53
Position as at 31 December 988 849

The 100% participating interests in Vedior Holding B.V. and Tiberia B.V. are reported under Investments in subsidiaries.

Receivables

2006 2005
Receivables due from subsidiaries 371 752
Taxes 1 2
Other receivables 1 1
  373 755


Company statement of changes in equity

in millions of Euro  Share capital Share premium reserve Share option reserve Legal translation reserve Other legal reserve Retained earnings  Total
Balance at 1 January 2005 11 1,127 4 -15 11 -288 850
Effect change of accounting policy         19   19
Balance at 1 January 2005 11 1,127 4 -15 30 -288 869
Exchange differences arising on translation
of foreign operations
       53     53
Profit for the year         4 154 158
Transfer to retained earnings due to exercised put options minority shareholders          -2 2    
Issue of share capital 7         7
Redemption preference shares A -51 -51
Recognition of share based payments 6 6
Payment from reserves -16 -16
Balance at 1 January 2006 11 1,067 10 38 32 -132 1,026
Exchange differences arising on translation
of foreign operations
  -34    -34
Profit for the year 8 178 186
Transfer to retained earnings due to exercised put options minority shareholders  -2 2  
Issue of share capital 14 14
Recognition of share based payments 5 5
Dividend -43 -43
Balance at 31 December 2006 11 1,081 15 4 38 5 1,154


Legal reserves
€27 million of the other legal reserve as at 31 December 2006 relates to the equity share that is not available for distribution to the shareholders of Vedior N.V. until Vedior actually acquires the minority share from the minority shareholders. An amount of €11 million of the other legal reserve represents the amount of the translation differences under Dutch GAAP that have arisen before 1 January 2004, the date of transitions to IFRS.

Amsterdam, 7 February 2007

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