Report Publication Announcement • Aug 26, 2014
Report Publication Announcement
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Pursuant to a request of the Portuguese Securities Commission (Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários) pursuant to Article 245, number 5, of the Portuguese Securities Code (Código dos Valores Mobiliários), Portugal Telecom is providing to the market supplemental information with respect to its Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, as approved by its Board of Directors on February 18, 2014 (the "Report and Consolidated Financial Statements"), which information, in light of subsequent events, has become more relevant.
With respect to Note 24 – Short-term investments of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2013, and particularly the caption "Debt securities," Portugal Telecom provides the following clarifications, which should be viewed as supplemental information in addition to the information required to be disclosed under IFRS 7 and IAS 24:
Portugal Telecom, SGPS SA Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40 1069-300 Lisboa Portugal
Public company Share capital Euro 26,895,375 Registered in the Commercial Registry Office of Lisbon and Corporation no. 503 215 058 Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchange. Information may be accessed on the Reuters under the symbols PTC.LS and PT and on Bloomberg under the symbol PTC PL.
Nuno Vieira Investor Relations Director [email protected] Tel.: +351 21 500 1701 Fax: +351 21 500 0800
With respect to Note 45.1.3 – Financial instruments – Credit risk of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2013, and particularly the caption "Debt securities," Portugal Telecom provides the following clarifications, which should be viewed as supplemental information in addition to the information required to be disclosed under IFRS 7:
• As of December 31, 2013 and 2012, investments in short-term securities issued by ESI, a Espírito Santo Group entity, in the total amounts of Euro 750 million and Euro 510 million, respectively, represented the following percentages of the captions set forth below:
| (in Euro million) | December 31, 2013 | December 31, 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caption amount | Percentage | Caption amount | Percentage | |
| (%) | (%) | |||
| Short-term investments | 914 | 82% | 626 | 81% |
| Short-term investments and cash and cash equivalents | 2,573 | 29% | 2,615 | 20% |
| Total current assets | 3,973 | 19% | 4,102 | 12% |
| Total assets | 12,020 | 6% | 12,829 | 4% |
| Total shareholders' equity | 1,867 | 40% | 2,537 | 20% |
| Net income | 388 | 193% | 310 | 164% |
• With respect to the information on our policy on investments in cash and short-term investments, as presented in general terms in the Report and Consolidated Financial Statements in the same note of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2013, in Item 10 – Main Risks and Uncertainties – Financial Risks – Credit of our Consolidated Annual Report 2013 and in Item 03.III – Internal Organization – Internal Control and Risk Management – Main economic, financial and legal risks – Financial Risks – Credit of our Corporate Governance Report 2013, and in particular the criterion for investments in diversified financial institutions that are reputable in the market, it should be mentioned that, given the concentration in deposits and treasury applications in BES/GES, as of December 31, 2013, the Company was not implementing an effective diversification.
With respect to Note 48.b) – Related Parties – Shareholders of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2013, Portugal Telecom provides the following clarifications, which constitute supplemental information and more extensive information than that required under IAS 24:
which includes BES and all entities that, according to information provided by BES, could be considered related parties of BES, including ESI (See Annex I).
| Euro | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-Dec-13 | 31-Dec-12 | |||||||
| Short-term | Short-term | |||||||
| Company | Bank deposits | inves tments | Financings (i) | Bank deposits | inves tments | Financings (i) | ||
| GES | 1.402.888.437 | 750,000,000 | 14.517.265 | 1,484,978,570 | 510,000,000 | 28.653.131 | ||
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos | $\overline{\phantom{a}}$ | ۰ | ۰ | 148,824,834 | ۰ | |||
| Barclays | ۰ | ۰ | 72.581 | ٠ | 166.960.080 | |||
| 1,402,888,437 | 750,000,000 | 14,517,265 | 1,633,875,985 | 510,000,000 | 195,613,211 |
(i)It should be further noted that Banco Espírito Santo and Caixa Geral de Depósitos both acted as placement agents for commercial paper issued by Portugal Telecom, and in that regard, Portugal Telecom had outstanding amounts of Euro 200 million as of December 31, 2013, placed by BES, and Euro 50,750,000 as of December 31, 2012, placed by Caixa Geral de Depósitos. Portugal Telecom is not informed as to the investors who subscribe for these investments.
• The transactions that occurred during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and the balances at such date, but excluding outstanding balances relating to bank deposits, short-term investments and other financing transactions with our principal shareholders, are as follows (value-added tax included):
| Euro | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues and Costs and losses | Accounts | |||
| Company | gains (i) | (i) | receivable Accounts payable | |
| GES | 100,864,559 | 28,467,536 | 2,598,492 | 36,105 |
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos | 33,527,672 | 13.240.097 | 3,971,406 | 637,112 |
| Visabeira | 11,734,060 | 103,160,858 | 20,994,829 | 13,076,065 |
| Controlinveste | 2,670,350 | 52,691,602 | 512.548 | 10,355,585 |
| Ongoing | 857,306 | 3,895,190 | 3.164.133 | 1.078.681 |
| Barclays | 951,915 | 10,585,777 | 30.023 | |
| BlackRock | 1.113 | 814.730 | ||
| UBS | 39 | 84,237 | 250 | |
| 150,607,014 | 212,940,027 | 31,271,681 | 25,183,548 |
(i)Revenues and gains include sales and services rendered by Portugal Telecom and interest received on bank deposits and short-term investments, while costs and losses include supplies and external services provided to Portugal Telecom and interest paid on financing agreements and equity swaps.
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