Quarterly Report • May 6, 2020
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1st Quarter 2020


| 1 * QUARTER 2020 CONSOLIDATEDRESULTS | |
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| 1. | |
| 2. ОтнекНісніснісь | |
| INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |


| t. million | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1020 | ٨%20/19 | |
| Revenues1 | 176.9 | 179.9 | 1.7% |
| Mail & other | 120.6 | 110.7 | -8.6% |
| Mail- | 119.4 | 109.5 | -8.3% |
| Central Structure | 1.2 | 0.7 | -42.7% |
| Express & Parcels | 36.7 | 37.3 | 1.6% |
| Banco CTT | 9.0 | 195 | 116.4% |
| Financial Services & Retail4 | 105 | 13.0 | 23.0% |
| Operating Costs3 | 155.9 | 159.7 | 2.4% |
| EBITDA3 | 21.0 | 20.2 | -3.7% |
| Leases (IFRS16) | 6.9 | 6.3 | -8.9% |
| EBITDA including IFRS 16 | 28.0 | 26.6 | -5.0% |
| Impairments & provisions | 0.4 | 2.8 | 540.4% |
| Depreciation & amortisation | 13.3 | 14.5 | 8.9% |
| Specific items | 5.6 | 0.01 | -99.7% |
| E31 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 6.7% |
| Financial results (+ / -) | -2.1 | -3.1 | -47.8% |
| Income tax for the period | 2.9 | 2.5 | -14.7% |
| Non-controlling interests | -0.008 | 0.03 | >> |
| Net profit for the period4 | 3.7 | 3.7 | -0.4% |
1 Excluding specificitems.
² In 2020 and in the same period of the previous year (proforma), the retail products and services unit are considered within the Financial Services & Retail business unit (former Financial Services business unit).
3 Excluding depreciation / amortisation, impairments and provisions, as well as the impact of IFRS 16 and specific items.
4 Attributable to equity holders.


The COVID-19 pandemic affected consumers and companies and, although the Company has maintained its activity and has joined the "stay at home" movementfrom the various geographies where it operates by putting in motion several initiatives aimed at facilitating access of the Portuguese and Spanish populations to the services provided, the business in general was negatively influenced. The Mail business unit was very affected in the second half of March. The E&P business unit was also impacted, mainly in Spain, and several initiatives were launched in Portugal to help companies market their products. These initiatives, and the strong effort to capture volumes associated with e-commerce, were very successful and reversed the downward trend in B2B volumes in April. The Financial Services & Retail business area suffered the greatest impact, with a significantreduction in Public Debt Certificates subscriptions, as a result of the dependence on the retail channel, which suffered a decrease in demand as a result of restrictions on the movement of people and the opening hours of CTT post offices following the declaration of the state of emergency, although some progress was observed at the end of April. The impacts on the Banco CTT business area were not so significant in March and allowed the bank to present, for the first time in its history, a positive Net profit in the quarter.
At the end of 1Q20, Mail revenues reached €109.5m, -€9.9m (-8.3%) vis -à-vis 1Q19.
This decline resulted mostly from the combined effect of the fall in the revenues of transactional mail by €8.1m (-7.9%), advertising mailby €0.5m (-9.1%) andbusiness solutions by €0.3m (-10.6%).
In the first two months of 2020, the Mail revenues decline was just €1.5m (-1.9%) compared to the same period of the previous year, totaling € 77.4m. It was a consequence of the combined effect of a slight decrease in the revenues of transactional mail (-€1.6m;-2.4%), editorial mail (-€0.3m;-12.3%) and business solutions (-€0.4m; -17.6%), mitigated by the €0.5m (+16.0%) growth of advertising mail.
The revenues decline in the month of March amounted to €8.4m (-20.8%), as this crisishas had arelevant impact on virtually all transactional mail business lines, as for example, decline of ordinary mail by €2.0m (-13.9%), registered mail by €1.8m (-17.6%) and international mail by €2.3m (-29.9%), as well as a fall in advertising mail which posted a decrease of €1.0m (-44.7%).
During the first two months of 2020, the evolution of addressed mail volumes was within the Company guidance range [-6% to -8%] as it stood at -7.1%. However, the impact of the month of March 2020 on that metric was -20.9%, leading the 1Q20 evolution to -11.8%.
| million items | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2M19 2M20 | 1019 | △%。 | ||||||
| Transactional mail | 96.3 | 88.5 | -8.1% | 46.3 | 142.6 126.2 -11.5% | |||
| Advertising mail | 7.1 | 7.7 | 8.3% | 6.0 | 3.4 -43.5% | 13.1 | 11.1 -15.3% | |
| Editorial mail | 5.5 | 5.0 -10.5% | 3.0 | 2.6 -12.4% | 8.5 | 7.6 -11.2% | ||
| Addressed mail | 109.0 101.2 -7.1% | 43.7 -20.9% 164.2 144.9 -11.8% | ||||||
| Unaddressed mail | 63.7 92.2 44.7% - 1 | 42.5 - 23.2 -45.5% 106.2 115.4 8.6% |
Until February, the evolution of transactional mail (-8.1%) continued to be negatively affected by the volumes decline of domestic ordinary mail which dropped by -8.2% (-9.5% in 2019), mainly in the banking and insurance, telecommunications and Government segments, as well as by the decines in priority mail (-39.8%) and registered mail (-3.7%). Green mail volumes grew (+84.7%), mainly due to product substitution, as the priority mail and registered mail prepaid products business line were discontinued.


In March, the transactional mail volumes evolution (-18.5%) was mostly the result of the lower demand for domestic ordinary mail (-1 4.5%), especially in the banking and insurance, telecommunications and Government sectors with declines above 20%, registered mail (-17.5%) as well as international mail, severely impacted by the restrictions on operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outbound international mail posted a decline of 33.9% while inbound international mail, with a decrease of 44.5% in volumes, was most affected following the epidemic that started in China and gradually spread to other countries. Green mail volumes continued to grow (+57.1%).
The advertising mail business segment was negatively impacted in March, as the customers to postpone campaigns. This decline cancelled the good start to the year that had been observed until that point.
In the two months of 2020, addressed advertising mail volumes recorded an 8.3% growth, influenced by a campaign of a large client. In the month of March, the decline was 43.5%.
Also, regarding unaddressed advertising mail volumes, in the two months they continued to accelerate as they had since the 2™ quarter of 2019 and reached a 44.7% growth rate, mostly due to the capture of new customers. In parallel, several campaigns in the Government sectors were undertaken. Despite the sharp decline of March (-45.5%), this business line reached the end of 1 Q20 with an 8.6% growth.
In 1Q20, business solutions recorded revenues of €2.5m, -10.6% versus 1Q19. The dematerialization service reached a 25.8% growth provoked by the capture of new customers and the launch of the new business solution products & services portfolio (in the month of March they were already above 50k euros) which will be expanded throughout the next quarters as new solutions are put on the market. Despite this growth, there was a negative evolution in geographic solutions (-€0.2m), printing & finishing services (-€0.1m) and BPO - Business Process Outsourcing services (-€0.1m).
In 1Q20, the Philately revenues amounted to €1.3m, corresponding to a reduction of 7.2% versus 1Q19 (-€0.1m). The 3.6% growth in the international market should be noted, with online sales performing well when compared to the traditional external channels.
The average change in prices of the Universal Service in 1Q20 was 0.57% vs. the same period of the previous year.
The Express & Parcels revenues totaled €37.3m in 1020, +€0.6m (+1.6%) compared to the same period of 2019. In the first two months of 2020 they reached € 25.5m + € 0.8m (+3.0%) versus the same period of 2019. In March 2020, they amounted to €11.8m (-€0.2m;-1.4%) compared to the same period of the previous year.
In Portugal, revenues stood at €24.4m in 1Q20, +6.5% vs. the same period of 2019. In the first two months of 2020, they amounted to €16.4m, +6.8% vs. the same period of the previous year. In March 2020, they totaled €8.1m, +6.1% compared to the same period of 2019.
The business performance in Portugal in 1Q20 was mainly the result of the CEP (Courier, Express & Parcels) business that amounted to €18.9m (+10.4%) and the banking deliveries business that totaled €1.8m (+1.3%). The cargo business revenues stood at €2.8m (-11.5%) and those of the logistics business amounted to €0.7m (-5.2%).
The growth of the CEP revenues in Portugal was due to the capture of new customers in the 2019, with high levels of activity in the B2B segment and in e-commerce.
5 Including letter mail, editorial mail and parcels of the Universal Postal Service, excluding international inbound mail.


Volumes in Portugal in 1Q20 totaled 5.6 million items, +14.7% compared to the same period of 2019, the increase originated mostly in the abovementioned CEP customers.
The end of 1Q20 was marked by the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic which impacted the business due to the restrictive measures imposed to most of the sectors of the economy – closure of shops, services and industry, and contraction of consumption in some sectors due to the confinement. The beginning of the 200 arter showed a strong recovery in activity levels, albeit with diverse features as a significant increase in e-commerce.
CTT launched several initiatives, trying to leverage on solutions that could help bolster the recovery of the lost activity and create new growth opportunities, such as:
The Dottmarketplace, launched in May 2019 through a partnership between CTT and Sonae, already had, at the end of March 2020, 763 vendors present on the platform (an increase of 100 vs. the end of 2019) and more than 2.2 million products were available. At the end of February 2020, a total of 65k users were registered (+32% vs. the end of 2019) and at the end of March 2020 there were approximately 84k users registered (+69%), indicating strong growth and changes in consumption patterns favorable to the parcels business.
Revenues in Spain stood at €12.1m in 1Q20, -9.0% compared to the same period of 2019. Volumes totaled 4.1 million items, +0.3% vis-à-vis the same period of 2019. There was an increase in B2C volumes, items with lower weight and consequently lower price per item, and a decline in B2B volumes due to COVID-19.
lt should be noted that in the first two months of 2020, revenues amounted to€8.6m, -€0.5m (-5.2%) year-onyear, mostly due to the volumes decline of 5.6%, greatly influenced by the loss of a major client in April 2019. Excluding the impact of the lost volumes of that client, the revenues and volumes would have been +0.5% and +1.2%, respectively.
Themonth of March 2020 was strongly impacted by COVID-19, posting a-17.2% declinein revenues despite the 14.4% increase in volumes. This temporary commercial performance trendhas been reversed in April 2020 by a significant volumes growth as a result of business initiatives and changes in consumption patterns that have strongly stimulated the evolution of e-commerce purchases.


The rebranding to CTT Express, launched on 21 February 2020 promotes a greater Iberian alignment and a commitment to the urgent parcels market in this geography, which should allow the expansion of the business and a future presence with greater guarantees and stability for the regional partners of the franchisee network.
Revenues in Mozambique stood at €0.8m in 1Q20, +57.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. The CEP and the banking businesses positively contributed to this growth, underpinned by the capture of new businesses in the health area (collection of biological samples) in the 2019, and also in the continued growth of the banking sector.
Banco CTT revenues more than doubled, reaching €19.5m in 1Q20, a year-on-year growth of €10.5m (+116.4%), of which £8.0m originated in 321 Crédito, acquired in May 2019. Excluding this inorqanic effect, the revenues would amount to €11.5m, still +€2.5m (+27.8%) vis-à-vis 1Q19.
The year-on-year revenues growth resulted from the positive performance of net interest income growth (+€1.6m; +63.5%) in the first three months of the year compared to the same period of 2019.
The commissions received from the banking activity grew by +€1.2m (+76.4%), boosted by customer transactionality (+35.6%, especially driven by debit cards and ATMs), consumer credit (+80.3%) and PPR -Retirement Savings Plan (+417.8%) with a growth in the placement of the PPR product of +€277.3m vs. 1Q19. The operating performance of Banco CTT until the end of 1 Q 20 led to growth:
The payments business line recorded a decrease of €0.3m (-6.2%) in commissions received in 1Q20 compared to the same period of the previous year, with total revenues of €4.6m. In 1Q20, the roll-out of the MBSPOT service to all agents continued.
The month of March shows minor impacts related to the restrictive measures imposed by the state of emergency, which are mostly visible in the demand for financial services, including transactions in the area of payments.
In 1Q20, Banco CTT announced the introduction of a debit card commissioning model in order to encourage its reqular use, to be applied on the anniversary date for customers already holding a card and for new customers after the end of February, given that customers who regularly use their debit card or customers under 25 years of age are exempt from commission. The collection of annuities began in April.
The Financial Services & Retail revenues amounted to €13.0m relative to Financial Services and €2.7m to Retail), with a growth of +€2.4m (+23.0%) compared to the same period of the previous year, as a result of the increase in subscriptions of Public Debt Certificates - Treasury Certificates Savings Growth in the months of January and February 2020.


In 1 Q20, the public debt certificates revenues totaled €8.4m, an increase of €2.6m (+44.3%) vs. 1 Q19.
In the first two months of the public debt certificates (Savings Certificates and Treasury Certificates Savings Growth) reached revenues of €6.6m (+66.4%) and subscriptions increased to €1,176m, +89.7% compared to the placements recorded in the same period of 2019.
The increase in subscriptions in the first two months of 2020 was due to the good performance in the recapture of the amounts of Public Debt Certificates (PDC) expired in January 2020 (circa €1,500m expired in PDC). However, this increase in subscriptions did not have an equal impact on the revenues, due to the reduction in the remuneration paid by IGCP - the Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency to the Company as of 20 January 2020.
The subscriptions of the second half of the month of March 2020 were strongly influenced by the restrictive measures associated with the state of emergency, particularly the effect it generated on the preference for liquidity, reflecting a decline of -72.4% compared to the first half of the month, as the daily average went to €3.7 m compared to €13.4m in the first half of March 2020 and €14.1m in the month of March 2019, although a recovery in this activity is currently taking place.
Money orders stood at €1.5m, +€0.1m vs. 1Q19 (+8.1%), as the money order issuance service was used to pay unemployment and other social assistance benefits, from year-end 2019 onwards.
Conversely, CTT's payment services had a negative performance (mostly tax payments) that amounted to € 0.1m, -€ 0.02m (-11.3%) vs. 1Q19, mainly due to the structural effect of the changes in the means of payment for this type of service.
The retail products and services, with a -1.9% (-E0.1m) performance vs. 1Q19, also reversed in March the growth trend of the firsttwo months of 2020, when they posted a + 5.2% growth compared to the same period of 2019.
It was in third-party retail products and services, essentially in lottery, books, merchandising and ticket office sales, that the reduction in March was most felt, with an evolution of -€ 0.2m (-21.8%) compared to the month of March 2019, influenced by the restrictions associated with the state of emergency, which limited access to CTT's Retail Network, as the opening hours of the post offices changed, suspended the launch of new products by the suppliers while supplies had to be adjusted, and involved the cancellation and postponement of shows.
Operating costs amounted to €159.7m, an increase of €3.8m (+2.4%) vs.1Q19, with an impact of +€3.0m from 321 Crédito. Excluding 321 Crédito, operating costs totaled €156.7m (+0.5%).
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1020 | < | A% | |
| Operating costs | 155.9 | 159.7 | 3.8 | 2.4% |
| Staff costs | 85.9 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 2.7% |
| ESSS | 63.2 | 64.7 | 1.5 | 2.4% |
| Other operating costs | 6.7 | 6.7 | -0.04 | -0.6% |
6 Excluding depreciation / amortisation, impairments and provisions, the impact of IFRS 16 and specific items.


Staff costs increased € 2.3m (+ 2.7%) in 1Q20. Excluding the effect of 321 Crédito, those costs would have grown €1.0m (+1.1%). This performance was mainly due to the reversal in the liability related to retired employees made in 1Q19, associated with a reduction of the mobile phones consumption average tariffs, which had at the time a positive one-time impact of +€0.9m.
External supplies & services costs increased by €1.5m (+2.4%), of which €1.1m resulted from the integration of 321 Crédito. Excluding the inorganic effect, the growth is only €0.4m (+0.6%) which includes mainly; (i) the increased direct costs (+€1.0m), mostly in the E&P business unit (last mile); (ii) the increase in costs related to temporary work (+€0.4m); and (iii) the reduction in general and administrative costs (-€1.4m),
Other operating costs were stable when compared to 1019. Excluding the inorganic effect of 321 Crédito (+€0.5m), these costs would have decreased by €0.5m (-7.7%) mostly due to: (i) the lower amount of indemnities paid for mail loss (-€ 0.3m); and (ii) the reduction of marketing and advertising costs (-€ 0.3m).
As at 31 March 2020, the CTT headcount (permanent and fixed-term staff) consisted of 12,010 employees, 65 less (-0.5%) than as at 31 March 2019. It is important to mention that as from 2020, the methodology to count permanent staff changed and permanent staff, which has an impact of -48 workers in the period under analysis, is no longer considered. Excluding this effect, the increase in permanent staff would have been 39. The integration of 321 Crédito had a specialimpact on the evolution of the number of permanent staff (+104),
| 31.03.2019 31.03.2020 | A 2020/2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & other | 10.638 | 10.471 | -167 | -1.6% |
| Express & Parcels | 1,125 | 1,088 | -37 | -3.3% |
| Banco CTT | 273 | 411 | 138 | 50.5% |
| Financial Services & Retail | 39 | 40 | 1 | 2.6% |
| Total, of which: | 12,075 | 12.010 | -65 | -0.5% |
| Permanent | 10.835 | 10.826 | -9 | -0.1% |
| Fixed-term contracts | 1,240 | 1,184 | -56 | -4.5% |
| Portugal | 11,622 | 11.532 | -90 | -0.8% |
| Other geographies | 453 | 478 | 25 | 5.5% |
Headcount7
There was a decrease in the number of staff (permanent and fixed-term staff) in the Mail & other (-167) and the Express & Parcels (-37) business units which more than offset the increase in Banco CTT (+138, of whom 125 resulting from the integration of 321 Crédito) and in the Financial Services & Retail (+1) business units.
Together, the areas of operations and distribution within the basic network (5,980 employees, of whom 4,378 delivery postmen and women) and the retail network (2,480 employees) represent circa 78% of CTT's permanent staff.
lt should be noted that these figures already include 4 exits in 2020, on top of 531 other exits, split into 161 in 2017, 268 in 2018 and 102 in 2019 which occurred in the context of the Human Resources Optimization Program within the Operational Transformation Planunderway.
? In 2020 and in the same period of the previous year (products and services of the Mail & other business unit are considered within the Financial Services & Retail business unit (former Financial Services unit). This migration had animpact of workers between these businessunits.


In 1Q20 the Company generated an EBITDA® of €20.2m, -€0.8m (-3.7%) compared to 1Q19, with an EBITDA margin of 11.3% (11.9% in 1Q19). This performance was strongly influenced by the impacts occurred in March 2020, resulting from the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, given that EBITDA was growing in the first two months of 2020 (+€5.9m; +49.7%).
In 1 Q20 the Company recorded specific items for a net amount of € 0.01m, broken down as shown below:
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1020 | < | A% | |
| Specific items | 5.6 | 0.01 | -5.5 | -99.7% |
| Corporate restructuring costs and strategic projects | 5.5 | 0.4 | -5.1 | -93.3% |
| Other non-recurring revenues and costs | 0.1 | -0.4 | -0.4 | -672.0% |
Specific Items
The decline of -€5.5m in Specific items is mostly related to corporate restructuring and strategic projects (-€5.1m), with special emphasis on of compensations paid for termination of employment contracts by mutual agreement (-€ 4.0m compared to 1019) within the Human Resources Optimization Program under the ongoing Operational Transformation Plan. The change in other non-recurringrevenues and costs (-E O.4m) is underpinned by the gain from the sale of a real estate property in 1Q20 (+£0.6m).
EBIT stood at € 9.3m in 1Q20, + € 0.6m (+6.7%) vs. 1Q19, with a margin of 5.2% (4.9% in 1Q19).
This evolution was due to the organic and inorganic growth of Banco CTT (+€5.2m) and Financial Services & Retail (+€2.6m) which offset the decrease in Mail & other (-€5.7m) and Expresso & Parcels (+€1.5m).
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1020 | ব | ΔΎρ | |
| EBIT | 8.7 | ರಿ.3 | 0.6 | 6.7% |
| Mail & other | 10.4 | 4 7 | -5.7 | -54.7% |
| 23.6 | 20.0 | -3.6 | -15.1% | |
| Central Structure | - 13.2 | - 15.3 | -2.1 | -16.1% |
| Express & Parcels | - 2.3 | - 3.8 | -1.5 | -66.8% |
| Banco CTT | -4.1 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 126.5% |
| Financial Services & Retail | 4.7 | 7.2 | 2.6 | 54.9% |
In the first two months of 2020, EBIT was growing by €5.6m (+117.3%) as a result of the good performance of the Financial Services & Retail (+€2.7m) and Banco CTT (+€3.5m) business units.
8 Excluding depreciation / amortisation, impairments and provisions, the impact of IFRS 16 and specific items.


The consolidated financial results totaled -€3.1m, corresponding to a year-on-year decrease of £1.0m (-47.8%).
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1020 | ব | A% | |
| Financial results | -2.1 | -3.1 | -1.0 | -47.8% |
| Financial income, net | -2.4 | -2.5 | -0.1 | -6.3% |
| Financial costs and losses | -2.4 | -2.5 | -0.1 | -5.5% |
| Financial income | 0.02 | 0.003 | -0.02 | -85.8% |
| Gains / losses in subsidiaries, associated companies and joint ventures |
0.3 | -0.6 | -0.8 | -295.8% |
Financial costs and losses incurred amounted to €2.5m, mainly incorporating financial to post-employment and long-term employee benefits of €1.1m, interest associated to finance leases liabilities linked to the implementation of IFRS 16 for an amount of €0.8m, and interest rates for an amount of €0.4m.
In 1Q20, CTT obtained a consolidated net profit attributable to the equity holders of €3.7m, in line (-0.4%) with that obtained in 1Q19 and positively impacted by the evolution of EBIT (+E0.6m) and the corporate income tax for the period (-€0.4m), which almost offset the evolution of the financial results (-€1.0m).
Capex stood at €5.6m, -12.0% (-€0.8m) compared to 1Q19, reflecting the continued implementation of the Modernization & Investment Plan (+€3.3m).
lt is important to note the increase in in expanding business units, e.g. Express & Parcels (+€0.6m) and Banco CTT (+€0.5m), in order to improve the activity support systems.
To be noted is also the update of the sorting machines in the Barcelona platform (+€0.6m) and the investment in protective gear (+€0.2m) installed in CTT post offices to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.


In 1Q20, CTT generated an operating cash flow of €11.8m, an improvement of +€4.1m vs.1Q19.
| € million | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1019 | 1Q20 | △ | |
| EBITDA | 21.0 | 20.2 | -0.8 |
| Specific items* | 5.6 | 0.01 | -5.5 |
| CAPEX | 6.3 | 5.6 | -0.8 |
| A Working capital | -1.4 | -2.8 | -1.5 |
| Operating cash flow | 7.8 | 11.8 | 4.1 |
| Employee benefits | -3.4 | -3.2 | 0.2 |
| lax | -0.1 | -0.05 | 0.02 |
| Free cash flow | 4.3 | 8.6 | 4.3 |
| Debt (principal + interest) | 3.7 | -0.2 | -3.9 |
| Change in own cash | 8.0 | 8.4 | 0.4 |
| △ Liabilities related to Financial Services & Retail | -70.2 | -216.7 | -146.5 |
| & Banco CTT, net10 | |||
| A Other11 | 4.5 | 64.2 | 59.7 |
| Net change in cash (balance sheet) | -57.7 | -144.0 | -86.3 |
*Specific items affecting EBITDA.
The negative evolution of the change in working capital vs. 1Q19 (-€1.5m) resulted mainly from the negative evolution of the investment (-€5.2m) following the high levels of investment of the year-end 2019, which was partly compensated by a positive evolution in working capital related to EBITDA net of specific items (+€3.7m),
The change in working capital in 1Q20 (-€2.8m) includes the negative impact of the change in items related to Capex (-€ 9.9m) and the positive impact of accounts receivable from general clients (+€ 4.7m) and from Postal Financial Services customers (+€3.2m).
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | < | A% | |
| Non-current assets | 1.734.7 | 1,797.8 | 63.1 | 3.6% |
| Current assets | 778.8 | 640.7 | -138.1 | -17.7% |
| Assets | 2.513.4 | 2.438.5 | -75.0 | -3.0% |
| Equity | 131.4 | 135.0 | 3.6 | 2.8% |
| Liabilities | 2.382.0 | 2.303.4 | -78.6 | -3.3% |
| Non-current liabilities | 512.8 | 500.5 | -12.3 | -2.4% |
| Current liabilities | 1,869.2 | 1,802.9 | -66.3 | -3.5% |
| Equity and Liabilities | 2,513.4 | 2,438.5 | -75.0 | -3.0% |
9 The 1Q19 operating cash flow was restated to be comparable with that of 1Q20. In 2019 the methodology to calculate the operating cash flow was changed, in particular with respect to the capital, which no longer includes anon-cyclical value it mobility allowance.
10 The change in net libilities of Financial Services the evoluti
financial liabilities, net of the amounts in securities / banking financial assets, of entities of the CTT Group providing financial services, namely the financial services of CTT, Payshop, Banco CTT and 321 Crédito.
11 The changein other cash items reflects the evolution of Bank of Portugal, outstanding cheques / clearing of Banco CTT cheques, and impairment of sight and term deposits and bank applications.


The key aspects of the comparison between the Balance Sheet as at 31.03.2020 and that as at 31.12.2019 are as follows:
The CTT Group consolidated Balance Sheet excluding Banco CTT from the full consolidation perimeter and accounting it as a financial investment measured by the equity method would be as follows:
| t million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | < | ^% | |
| Non-current assets | 6158 | 610.2 | -5.7 | -0.9% |
| Current assets | 456.9 | 336.7 | -120.3 | -26.3% |
| Assets | 1.072.8 | 946.8 | -125.9 | -11.7% |
| Equity | 131.4 | 135.1 | 3.7 | 2.8% |
| Liabilities | 941.3 | 811.7 | -129.6 | -13.8% |
| Non-current liabilities | 432.0 | 427.4 | -4.6 | -1.1% |
| Current liabilities | 509 3 | 384.3 | -125.1 | -24.6% |
| Equity and Liabilities | 1.072.8 | 946.8 | -125.9 | -11.7% |
As at 31 March 2020, the liabilities related to employee benefits (post-employment and long-term benefits) decreased to € 285.6m, - € 1.1m compared to December 2019, as specified in the table below:
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | △ | 1% | |
| Total liabilities | 286.7 | 285.6 | -1.1 | -0.4% |
| Healthcare | 274.4 | 274.0 | -0.4 | -0.1% |
| Healthcare (321 Crédito) | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.03 | 2.3% |
| Suspension agreements | 3.1 | 2.5 | -0.6 | -20.0% |
| Other long-term employee benefits | 7.1 | 7.0 | -0.1 | -1.1% |
| Other post-employment benefits | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 1.9% |
| Pension plan | 0 4 | 0 4 | -0.01 | -1.4% |
| Other benefits | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.01 | 9.0% |

| € million | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 31.12.2019 31.03.2020 | △ | ||
| Net debt | 60.0 | 50.7 | -9.3 |
| ST & LT debt | 175.4 | 174.5 | -0.9 |
| Of which finance leases (IFRS 16) | 84.0 | 82.8 | -1.1 |
| Own cash (I+II) | 115.4 | 123.8 | 8.4 |
| Cash & cash equivalents | 443.0 | 299.0 | -144.0 |
| Cash & cash equivalents at the end of the period (I) | 414.9 | 206.6 | -208.3 |
| Other cash items | 28.1 | 92.4 | 64.2 |
| Other Financial Services liabilities, net (II) | -299.5 | -82.8 | 216.7 |
The key aspects of the comparison between the consolidated net debt as at 31.03.2020 and that as at 31.12.2019 are as follows:
CTT Group net debt excluding Banco CTT from the full consolidation perimeter and accounting it as a financial investment measured by the equity method would be as follows:
| a finalla line man a comments mail to mail to a l | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| € million | |||
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | △ | |
| Net debt with Banco CTT under equity method | 144.1 | 132.0 | -12.1 |
| ST & LT debt | 173.2 | 172.1 | -1.1 |
| Of which Finance leases (IFRS 16) | 81.8 | 80.4 | -1.3 |
| Own cash (I+II) | 29.1 | 40.1 | 11.0 |
| Cash & cash equivalents | 268.2 | 147.8 | -120.4 |
| Cash & cash equivalents at the end of the period (I) | 268.2 | 147.8 | -120.4 |
| Other cash items | -0.02 | -0.02 | 0.00 |
| Other Financial Services liabilities, net (II) | -239.1 | -107.7 | 131.4 |
As from 2020, the retail products revenues previously reported within the Mail & other business unit and the corresponding operating costs were migrated, along with their history, in order to reflect the changes made in the business organization, to the business unit previously named "Financial Services business unit", which has now been renamed "Financial Services & Retail business unit". This migration had an impact on the main business indicators of the two business units in 2019 as follows:

| t million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2019 Proforma |
ব | 4%19P/19 | |
| Revenues | 490.9 | 477.6 -13.3 | -2.7% | |
| Operating costs | 412.4 | 399.6 -12.8 | -3.1% | |
| EBITDA | 78.5 | 78.0 | -0.5 | -0.6% |
| EBIT | 43.4 | 42.9 -0.5 | -1.1% |
| € million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2019 Proforma |
ব | Δ%19P/19 | |
| Revenues | 34.1 | 47.4 | 13.3 | 39.2% |
| Operating costs | 12.5 | 25.3 | 12.8 | 102.9% |
| EBITDA | 21.6 | 22.1 | 0.5 | 2.3% |
| EBIT | 21.0 | 21.5 | 0.5 | 2.3% |
Under the Universal Postal Service Concession Contract, on 13.03.2020, CTT invoked force majeure before the Regulator, following the public health emergency of international scope, declared by the World Health Organization on 30.01.2020 and the subsequent classification of COVID-19 as a pandemic, on 11 March. In view of the seriousness and magnitude of the facts, which are public and notorious, and in order to comply with the public health instructions issued by the competent authorities, CTT could not fail to take the necessary and appropriate measures to protect workers and customers.
Pursuant to the provisions of the concession contract, CTT continues to ensure the functioning and continuity of postal services, taking the necessary and appropriate measures to the situation of force majeure, in terms of planning, operation prevention and human resources, submitting a daily update of the situation to the Government, as a counterparty, and to ANACOM, the regulatory authority responsible for overseeing the provision of the universal postal service.
In light of the economic uncertainty and the still unclear severity of the COVID-19 crisis, and despite the currently solid Balance Sheet of CTT, the Board of Directors deemed relevant, for the Company and all its stakeholders, to reverse its intention of proposing to the Shareholders General Meeting the distribution of €0.11 per share, previously disclosed to the market.
The Board of Directors proposed, and the Annual General Meeting approved, that the Net Profit of 2019 is allocated to Retained Earnings and, additionally, that no annual profit sharing is distributed to CTT's employees and executive members of the Board of Directors.
April 2020 showed encouraging signs of stabilization in some areas, although mail and financial services remain under significant pressure. The full impacts of Covid-19 on FY20 revenues & earnings guidance currently cannot be accurately and reliably quantified. CTT will provide an update on quidance as soon as it is possible to do so.


This press release is based on CTT – Correios de Portugal, S.A. interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 1st quarter of 2020, which are attached.
Lisbon, 6 May 2020
The Board of Directors
This information to the market and the general public is made under the terms and for the purposes of article 248 of the Portuguese Securities Code. It is also available on CTT's Investor Relations website at: https://www.ctt.pt/grupo-ctt/investidores/comunicados/index?language_id=1.
Guy Pacheco Market Relations Representative of CTT
Peter Tsvetkov Director of Investor Relations of CTT
Contacts:
Email: [email protected] Fax: + 351 210 471 996 Telephone: + 351 210 471 087


This document has been prepared by CTT – Correios de Portugal, S.A. (the "Company" or "CTT") exclusively for communication of the financial results of the 18 quarter of 2020 and has a mere informative nature. This document does not constitute, nor must it be interpreted as, an offer to sell, issue, exchange or buy any financial instruments (namely any securities issued by CTT or by any of its subsidiaries or affiliates), nor any kind of solicitation, recommendation or advice to (di)invest by CTT, its subsidiaries or affiliates.
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Hence, neither this press release nor any part of it, norits distribution, constitute the basis of, or may be invoked in any context as, a contract, or compromise or decision of investment, in any jurisdiction. Thus being, the Company does not assume liability for this document if it is used with a purpose other than the above.
This document (i) may contain summarised information and be subject to amendments and (i) the information contained herein has neither been independently verified, nor audited or reviewed by any of the Company s advisors or auditors. Thus being, given the nature and purpose of the information herein and, except as required by applicable law, CTT does not undertake any oblicly update or revise any of the information contained in this document. This document does not contain all the information disclosed to the market about CTT, thus its recipients are invited and advised to consult the public information disclosed by CTT in www.cmvm.pt. In particular, the contents of this press release shall be read and understood information disclosed by CTT, through such means. By reading this document, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.
This document contains forward-looking statements herein which are not historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements expressing our current opinion or, as applicable, those of our directors regarding the financial performance, the business strategy, the management plans and objectives concerning future operations and investments are forward-looking statements. Statements that include the words" expects", "foresees", "predicts", "intends", "plans", "believes", "anticipates", "wil", "targets", "may", "continues" and similar statements of a future or forward-looking nature identify forward-looking statements.
All forward-looking statements included herein involve known and uncertainties. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. Any forward-looking statements in this document reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other isks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the results of our operations, growth strategy and liquidity, and the wider environment (specifically, market developments, investment opportunities and regulatory conditions).
Although CTT believes that the assumptions beyond such forward-looking statements are reasonable when made, any third parties are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of CTT, what could cause the models, objectives, plans, estimates and / or projections to be materially reviewed and / or actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements.
Forward-looking statements (in particular, the objectives, estimates and projections as well as the corresponding assumptions) do neither represent a commitment regarding the models and plans to be implemented, nor are they guarantees of future performance, nor have they been reviewed by the auditors of CTT. You are cautioned not o place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements herein.
All forward-looking statements included herein speak only as at the date of this document. Except as required by applicable law, CTT does not undertake any oblicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as aresult of new information, future events or otherwise.


Interim condensed consolidated financial statements


I Insudit
CTT-CORREIOS DE PORTUGAL, S.A.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2019 AND 31 MARCH 2020 Euros
| NOTES | 31.12.2019 | Ullauulleu 31.03.2020 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSETS Non-current assets |
|||
| Tangible fixed assets | 4 | 263,443,040 | 261,718,187 |
| Investment properties | ട | 7,653,000 | 7,588,618 |
| Intangible assets | 5 | 62,012,644 | 58,972,393 |
| Goodwill | 70,201,828 | 70,201,828 | |
| Investments in associated companies | 293,434 | 293,434 | |
| Investments in joint ventures | 2,723,803 | 2,165,843 | |
| Other investments | 1,379,137 | 1,379,137 | |
| Debt securities | 8 | 424,851,179 | 439,172,898 |
| Other non-current assets | 1,543,308 | 1,218,266 | |
| Credit to banking clients | 10 | 792,469,611 | 849,419,916 |
| Other banking financial assets | ರಿ | 18,764,049 | 16,809,270 |
| Deferred tax assets | 25 | 89,329,806 | 88,828,741 |
| Total non-current assets | 1,734,664,839 | 1,797,768,532 | |
| Current assets | |||
| Inventories | 5,860,069 | 5,873,596 | |
| Accounts receivable | 146,471,712 | 140,531,520 | |
| Credit to banking clients | 10 | 93,350,959 | 97,743,314 |
| Deferrals | 11 | 7,305,261 | 9,646,235 |
| Debt securities | 8 | 31,560,152 | 35,064,562 |
| Other current assets | 35,766,227 | 36,884,690 | |
| Other banking financial assets | 9 | 14,660,286 | 15,179,044 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 12 | 442,995,724 | 298,976,052 |
| 777,970,390 | 639,899,013 | ||
| Non-current assets held for sale | 805,675 | 804,139 | |
| Total current assets | 778,776,065 | 640,703,152 | |
| Total assets | 2,513,440,904 | 2,438,471,684 | |
| EQUITY AND LIABILITIES Equity |
|||
| Share capital | 14 | 75,000,000 | 75,000,000 |
| Own shares | 15 | (8) | (8) |
| Reserves | 15 | 65,852,595 | 65,818,095 |
| Retained earnings | 15 | 10,867,301 | 40,016,638 |
| Other changes in equity Net profit |
15 | (49,744,144) 29,196,933 |
(49,744,144) 3,681,542 |
| Equity attributable to equity holders | 131,172,677 | 134,772,123 | |
| Non-controlling interests | 242,255 | 270,219 | |
| Total equity | 131,414,932 | 135,042,342 | |
| Liabilities | |||
| Non-current liabilities | |||
| Medium and long term debt | 18 | 148,597,934 | 146,027,123 |
| Employee benefits | 19 | 267,286,679 | 266,354,072 |
| Provisions Deferrals |
12 | 17,635,379 | 17,321,921 |
| Other banking financial liabilites | ರಿ | 294,490 76,060,295 |
291,690 67,595,563 |
| Deferred tax liabilities | 25 | 2,958,115 | 2,901,128 |
| Total non-current liabilities | 512,832,892 | 500,491,496 | |
| Current liabilities | |||
| Accounts payable | 20 | 373,790,665 | 235,447,868 |
| Banking clients' deposits and other loans | 21 | 1,321,418,042 | 1,382,828,905 |
| Employee benefits | 19,416,212 | 19,293,270 | |
| Income taxes payable | 22 | 5,958,753 | 7,977,252 |
| Short term debt | 18 | 26,813,567 | 28,475,288 |
| Deferrals | 11 | 3,454,477 | 3,236,745 |
| Other current liabilities | 100,353,646 | 105,038,692 | |
| Other banking financial liabilities | ರಿ | 17,987,719 | 20,639,825 |
| Total current liabilities Total liabilities |
1,869,193,080 | 1,802,937,845 | |
| 2,382,025,972 2,513,440,904 |
2,303,429,342 2,438,471,684 |
The attached notes are an integral part of these financial statements.


CONSOLIDATEDINCOME STATEMENT FOR THE THREE MONTH PERIODS ENDED 31 MARCH 2019 AND 31 MARCH 2020 Euros
| NOTES | Unaudited | Unaudited | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | ||
| Sales and services rendered | 3 | 170.151.984 | 163,393,029 |
| Financial margin | 2,500,370 | 10,425,575 | |
| Other operating income | 4,209,138 | 6,090,843 | |
| 176,861,492 | 179.909.447 | ||
| Cost of sales | (3,214,125) | (2,978,414) | |
| External supplies and services | (57,729,948) | (58,580,593) | |
| Staff costs | 23 | (89,936,755) | (88,318,919) |
| lmpairment of accounts receivable, net | (621,331) | (1,202,164) | |
| Impairment of other financial banking assets | 33.255 | (620,097) | |
| 19 | 146,799 | (1,003,701) | |
| Depreciation/amortisation and impairment of investments, net | (13,283,402) | (14,466,372) | |
| Other operating costs | (3,601,311) | (4,050,554) | |
| Gains/losses on disposal of assets | 25,685 | 576,984 | |
| Provisions, net | (168,181,132) | (170,643,830) | |
| 8,680,360 | 9,265,617 | ||
| Interest expenses Interest income |
24 24 |
(2,384,083) | (2,514,353) |
| Gains/losses in subsidiary, associated companies and joint ventures | 22,169 284,961 |
3,143 (557,960) |
|
| (2,076,953) | (3,069,170) | ||
| Earnings before taxes | 6,603,407 | 6,196,447 | |
| Income tax for the period | 25 | (2,913,015) | (2,485,192) |
| Net profit for the period | 3,690,392 | 3,711,255 | |
| Net profit for the period attributable to: | |||
| Equity holders Non-controlling interests |
3,698,154 (7.761) |
3,681,542 29.712 |
|
| Earnings per share: | 17 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
The attached notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
CIT-CORREIOS DE PORTUGAL, S.A.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOMEFOR THE THREE MONTH PERIODS ENDED 31 MARCH 2020 Euros
| NOTES | Unaudited 31.03.2019 |
Unaudited 31.03.2020 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Net profit for the period | 3,690,392 | 3,711,254 | |
| Adjustments from application of the equity method (non re-classifiable adjustment to profit and loss) |
15 | 742 | (1,549) |
| Changes to fair value reserves | 15 | 22,504 | (34,501) |
| Other changes in equity | (149.650) | (47.795) | |
| Other comprehensive income for the period after taxes | (126,404) | (83.845) | |
| Comprehensive income for the period | 3,563,989 | 3,627,409 | |
| Attributable to non-controlling interests | (7,019) | 27,964 | |
| Attributable to shareholders of CTT | 3.571.008 | 3.599.445 |
The attached notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| NOTES | Share capital | Reserves | Other changes in equity |
Retained earnings | Non-controlling interests |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restated balance on 31 December 2018 | 75.000.000 | (8) | 65.836.875 | (30.993.430) | 4.378.984 | 21.499.271 | 165.494 | 135.887.186 | |
| Appropriation of net profit restated for the vear of 2018 | 21.499.271 | (21.499.271) | |||||||
| Dividends | (15.000.000) | (15,000,000) | |||||||
| - | 6.499.271 | (21.499.271) | (15.000.000) | ||||||
| Other movements | (11.005) | (11.005) | |||||||
| Actuarial gains/losses - Health Care, net from deferred taxes | (18,750,714) | (18.750.714) | |||||||
| Changes to fair value reserves | 15.720 | 15,720 | |||||||
| Adjustments from the application of the equity method | (10,954) | (10.954) | |||||||
| Net profit for the period | 29.196.933 | 87.767 | 29.284.700 | ||||||
| Comprehensive income for the period | 15.720 | (18.750.714) | (10.954) | 29.196.933 | 76,762 | 10.527.747 | |||
| Balance on 31 December 2019 | 75.000.000 | 8) | 65.852.595 | (49.744.144) | 10,867,301 | 29.196.933 | 242.255 | 131.414.932 | |
| Balance on 1 January 2020 | 75.000.000 | (8) | 65,852,595 | (49.744.144) | 10.867.301 | 29.196.933 | 242.255 | 131.414.932 | |
| Appropriation of net profit restated for the year of 2019 | 29.196.933 | (29.196.933) | |||||||
| - | 29.196.933 | (29.196.933) | |||||||
| Other movements | (46.047) | (1,748) | (47,795) | ||||||
| Actuarial gains/losses - Health Care, net from deferred taxes | |||||||||
| Changes to fair value reserves | (34.501) | (34.501 | |||||||
| Adiustments from the application of the equity method | (1,549) | (1.549) | |||||||
| Net profit for the period | 3.681.542 | 29.712 | 3.711.254 | ||||||
| Comprehensive income for the period | (34.501) | (47.596) | 3.681.542 | 27.964 | 3.627.409 | ||||
| Balance on 31 March 2020 (Unaudited) | 75,000,000 | (8) | 65.818.095 | (49.744.144) | 40,016,638 | 3.681.542 | 270,219 | 135,042,342 | |
The attached notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

CTT-CORBEIOS DE PORTUGAL SA.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGESIN EQUITY AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2019 AND 31 MARCH 2020
Euros



CTT-CORREIOSDE PORTUGAL, S.A.
CONSOLIDATED CASHELOW STATEMENT FOR THE THREE MONTHPERIODSENDED 31 MARCH 2020
Euro
| Unaudited | Unaudited | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NOTES | 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
| Cash flow from operating activities | |||
| Collections from customers | 164,458,282 | 170,876,488 | |
| Payments to suppliers | (71,875,389) | (75,017,977) | |
| Payments to employees | (70,549,664) | (71,730,818) | |
| Banking customer deposits and other loans | 38,076,425 | 99,263,786 | |
| Credit to banking clients | (40,001,727) | (59,303,089) | |
| Cash flow generated by operations | 20,107,927 | 64,088,390 | |
| Payments/receivables of income taxes | (70,255) | (49,456) | |
| Other receivables/ payments | (77,843,127) | (130,225,354) | |
| Cash flow from operating activities (1) | (57,805,454) | (66,186,421) | |
| Cash flow from investing activities | |||
| Receivables resulting from: | |||
| Tangible fixed assets | 760,185 | ||
| Investment properties | 109,120 | ||
| Debt securities | 8 | 16,000,520 | 12,960,871 |
| Other banking financial assets | 9 | 25,715,000 | 3,365,000 |
| Interest income | 31,430 | 9,344 | |
| Payments resulting from: | |||
| Tangible fixed assets | (5,074,617) | (7,890,962) | |
| Intangible assets | (5,419,991) | (4,880,088) | |
| Debt securities | 8 | (21,888,615) | (29,021,384) |
| Demand deposits at Bank of Portugal | (2,964,613) | (63,507,823) | |
| Other banking financial assets | 9 | (8,560,000) | (900,000) |
| Cash flow from investing activities (2) | (2,051,766) | (89,104,856) | |
| Cash flow from financing activities | |||
| Receivables resulting from: | |||
| Loans obtained | 18 | 7,433,813 | 5,804,019 |
| Payments resulting from: | |||
| Loans repaid | (3,744,474) | (5,810,011) | |
| Other credit institutions' deposits | (37,881,082) | ||
| Other banking financial liabilities | 9 | (8,531,092) | |
| Interest expenses | (13,368) | (187,281) | |
| Lease liabilities | 18 | (6,022,454) | (6,356,790) |
| Cash flow from financing activities (3) | (2,346,483) | (52,962,236) | |
| Net change in cash and cash equivalents (1 + 2+ 3) | (62,203,704) | (208,253,513) | |
| Cash and equivalents at the beginning of the period | 414,846,614 | 414,865,569 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period | 12 | 352,642,910 | 206,612,056 |
| Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period | 352,642,910 | 206,612,056 | |
| Sight deposits at Bank of Portugal | 9,182,031 | 89,431,857 | |
| Outstanding checks of Banco CTT / Checks clearing of Banco CTT | 3,230,008 | 2,952,961 | |
| Impairment of slight and term deposits | (13,081) | (20,822) | |
| Cash and cash equivalents (Balance sheet) | 365,041,867 | 298,976,052 |
The attached notes are an integral part of these financial statements.


Notes to the interim condensed consolidated financial statements (Amounts expressed in Euros)
| 1. | INTRODUCTION | |
|---|---|---|
| 2. | SIGNFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES | |
| 2.1 Basis of presentation | ||
| 3. | SEGMENT REPORTING | |
| ব | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS | |
| 5. | INTANGIBLE ASSETS | |
| 6. | INVESTMENT PROPERTIES | |
| 7. | COMPANIES INCLUDED IN THE CONSOLIDATION | |
| 8. | DEBT SECURITIES | |
| 9. | OTHER BANKING FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES | |
| 10. | CREDIT TO BANKING CLIENTS | |
| 11. | DEFERRALS | |
| 12. | CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS | |
| 13. | ACCUMULATED IMPAIRMENT LOSSES | |
| 14. | EQUITY | |
| 15. | OWN SHARES, RESERVES, OTHER CHANGES IN EQUITY AND RETAINED EARNINGS | |
| 16. | DIVIDENDS | |
| 17. | EARNINGS PER SHARE | |
| 18. | DEBT | |
| 19. | PROVISIONS, GUARANTEES PROVIDED, CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS | |
| 20. | ACCOUNTSPAYABLE | |
| 21. | BANKING CLIENTS DEPOSITS AND OTHER LOANS | |
| 22. | INCOME TAXES RECEIVABLE / PAYABLE | |
| 23. | STAFF COSTS | |
| 24. | INTEREST EXPENSES ANDINTERESTINCOME | |
| 25. | INCOME TAX FOR THE PERIOD | |
| 26. | RELATED PARTIES | |
| 27. | OTHER INFORMATION | |
| 28. | SUBSEQUENT EVENTS |


CTT – Correios de Portugal, S.A. – Sociedade Aberta ("CTT" or" Company"), with head office at Avenida D. João II, no. 13, 1999– 001 in Lisbon, had its origin in the "Administração Geral dos Correios Telefones" qovernment department and its legal form is the result of successive re-organizations carried out by the Portuguese state business sector in the communications area.
Decree-Law no. 49.368, of 10 November 1969 founded the state-owned company CTT - Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal, E. P., which started operating on 1 January 1970. By Decree-Law no. 87/92, of 14 May, CTT – Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal, E. P., was transformed by private law, with the status of a stateowned public limited company. Finally, with the foundation of the former Telecom Portugal, S.A. by spin-off from Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal, S.A. under Decree-Law no. 277/92, of 15 December, the Company's name was changed to the current CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A..
On 31 January 2013 the Portuguese State through the Order 2468/12 – SETF, of 28 December, determined the transfer of the investment owned by the Portuguese State in CTT to Parpública – Participações Públicas, SGPS, S.A..
At the General Meeting held on 30 October 2013, the registered capital of CTT was reduced to 75,000,000 Euros, being from that date onward represented by 150,000,000 shares, as a result of a stock split which was accomplished through the reduction of the nominal value from 4.99 Euros to 0.50 Euros.
During the financial year ended 31 December 2013, CTT's capital was opened to the private sector. Supported by Decree-Lawno. 129/2013, of 6 September and the Resolution of the Council of Ministers ("RCM") no. 62-A/2013, of 10 October, the RCM no. 62-B/2013, of 10 October andRCM no. 72-B/2013, of 14 November, the first phase of privatisation of the capital of CTT took place on 5 December 2013. From this date, 63.64% of the shares of CTT (95.5 million shares) were owned by the private sector, of which 1 % (21 million shares) were sold in a Public Offering and 49.64% (74.5 million shares) by Institutional Direct Selling. On 31 December 2013 the Portuguese State, through Parpública - Participações Públicas, SGPS, S.A. held 36.36% of the shares of CTT, 30.00% by holding and 6.36% by allocation.
On 5 September 2014, the second phase of the privatisation of CTT took place. The shares held by Parpública – Participações Públicas, SGPS, S.A., which on that date represented 31.503% of CTT's capital, were subject to a private offering of Shares ("Equity Offering") via an accelerated book building process. The Equity Offering was addressed exclusively to institutional investors
The shares of CTT are listed on Euronext Lisbon.
The financial statements attached herewith are expressed in Euros, as this is the functional currency of the Group.
These financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 6 May 2020.
The accounting policies adopted, including financial risk management policies, are consistent with the preparation of the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019.


The interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared using accounting policies consistent with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IAS / IFRS") as adopted by the European Union as at 1 January 2020, and in accordance with IAS 34 - Interim Financial Reporting.
In accordance with IFRS 8, the Group discloses the segment financial reporting.
The Board of Directors regularly reviews segmental reports, using them to assess and communicate each segment performance, as well as to decide on how to allocate resources.
The Retail Products previously reported in the Mail segment and the respective operating costs, in order to reflect the changes made in the business organization, were migrated, along with their respective history, to the segment previously designated" Financial Services "and which now was renamed "Financial Services & Retail.
The period of 2019 was restated, for comparison purposes, according to the changes performed.
Therefore, the business of CTT is organised in the following segments:
The amounts reported in each business segment result from the agregation of the subsidiaries units defined in each segment perimeter and the elimination of transactions between companies of the same segment.
The statement of financial position of each subsidiary and business unit is determined based on the amounts booked directly in the companies that compose the segment, including the elimination of balances between companies of the same segment, and excluding the allocation in the segments of the adjustments between segments.
The income statement for each business segment is based on the amounts booked directly in the companies' financial statements and related business units, adjusted by the elimination of transactions between companies of the same segment.
However, as CTT, S.A. has assets in more than one segment it was necessary to split its income and costs by the various operating segments. The Internal Services Rendered refer to services provided across the different CTT, S.A. business areas, and the income is calculated according to standard activities valued through internally set transfer prices.


Initially, CTT, S.A. operating costs are allocated to the different segments by charging the internal transactions for the services mentioned above. After this initial allocation, costs relating to corport areas (CTT Central Structure) previously unallocated, are allocated by nature to the Mail segment and others.
The consolidated income statement by nature and segment of the 1st quarter of 2019 and 2020 are as follows:
| Restated 31.03.2019 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Euros | Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | Total | |
| Revenues | 120,600 | 36,719 | 10,542 | 9,000 | 176,862 |
| Sales and services rendered | 118,511 | 36,497 | 10,268 | 4,877 | 170,152 |
| Sales | 1,824 | 198 | 1,918 | 3,940 | |
| Services rendered | 116,687 | 36,298 | 8,350 | 4,877 | 166,212 |
| Financial Marqin | 2,500 | 2,500 | |||
| Other operating income | 2,089 | 222 | 275 | 1,623 | 4,209 |
| Operating costs excluding depreciations, amortizations, impairment and provisions | 100,637 | 37,589 | 5,562 | 12,062 | 155,851 |
| Staff costs | 75,608 | 5,976 | 350 | 4,013 | 85,948 |
| External supplies and services | 24,715 | 31,556 | 774 | 6,131 | 63,176 |
| Other costs | 3,141 | 712 | 1,732 | 1,143 | 6,728 |
| Internal services rendered | (2,826) | (୧୮୮୮) | 2,707 | 775 | |
| EBITDA | 19,963 | (870) | 4,980 | (3,062) | 21,010 |
| IFRS 16 (impact on EBITDA) | 5,208 | 1.446 | ട | 289 | 6,948 |
| EBITDA including IFRS 16 | 25,170 | 575 | 4,985 | (2,773) | 27,958 |
| Impairment and provisions | 67 | (549) | 41 | (441) | |
| Depreciation/amortisation and impairment of investments, net | (9,812) | (2,078) | (62) | (1,331) | (13,283) |
| Specific Items | (5,005) | (228) | (245) | (75) | (5,553) |
| EBIT | 10,421 | (2,280) | 4.678 | (4,138) | 8.680 |
| Financial results | (2,077) | ||||
| Interest expenses | (2,384) | ||||
| Interest income | 22 | ||||
| Gains/losses in subsidiary, associated companies and joint ventures | 285 | ||||
| Earnings before taxes (EBT) | 6,603 | ||||
| Income tax for the period | (2,913) | ||||
| Net profit for the period | 3.690 | ||||
| Non-controlling interests | 8 | ||||
| Faultrhalare of narant company | 2600 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Euros | Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | Total | |
| Revenues | 110,170 | 37,300 | 12,966 | 19,474 | 179,909 |
| Sales and services rendered | 108,870 | 37,115 | 12,831 | 4,577 | 163,393 |
| Soles | 1,763 | 161 | 1,781 | 3,705 | |
| Services rendered | 107,107 | 36.953 | 11.050 | 4,577 | 159,688 |
| Financial Marqin | 10,426 | 10,426 | |||
| Other operating income | 1,299 | 185 | 135 | 4,471 | 6,091 |
| Operating costs excluding depreciations, amortizations, impairment and provisions | 98,979 | 39,362 | 5,646 | 15,681 | 159,669 |
| Staff costs | 75,472 | 6,480 | 596 | 5,746 | 88,294 |
| External supplies and services | 23,695 | 32,862 | 693 | 7,438 | 64,688 |
| Other costs | 2,762 | 541 | 1,623 | 1,761 | 6,687 |
| Internal services rendered | (2,950) | (520) | 2,735 | 736 | |
| EBITDA | 11,190 | (2,062) | 7,320 | 3,793 | 20,241 |
| IFRS 16 (impact on EBITDA) | 4,587 | 1.342 | 28 | 374 | 6,331 |
| EBITDA including IFRS 16 | 15,777 | (720) | 7,348 | 4,167 | 26,572 |
| Impairment and provisions | (349) | (887) | (1,590) | (2,826) | |
| Depreciation / amortisation and impairment of investments, net | (10,739) | (2,158) | (100) | (1,470) | (14.465) |
| Specific Items | 34 | (38) | (0) | (10) | (14) |
| EBIT | 4,723 | (3,803) | 7,248 | 1,097 | 9,266 |
| Financial results | (3,069) | ||||
| Interest expenses | (2,514) | ||||
| Interest income | 3 | ||||
| Gains/losses in subsidiary, associated companies and joint ventures | (558) | ||||
| Earnings before taxes (EBT) | 6,196 | ||||
| Income tax for the period | (2,485) | ||||
| Net profit for the period | 3,711 | ||||
| Non-controlling interests | (30) | ||||
| Equity holders of parent company | 3,682 |
The amount recorded as specific items amounts to -0.01 M€, highlighting the capital gains related to the sale of tangible fixed assets (0.6 M€) mainly compensated by works related to studies and advisory services for strategic projects, namely within the scope of the new Concession contract.


| Restated | 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Euros | 31.03.2019 | ||
| 120,600 | 110,170 | ||
| Transactional mail | 103,047 | 94,950 | |
| Editorial mail | 3,684 | 3.279 | |
| Parcels (USO) | 1,541 | 1.443 | |
| Advertising mail | 5,597 | 5,087 | |
| Philately | 1,403 | 1.301 | |
| Business Solutions | 2,806 | 2.509 | |
| Other | 2,522 | 1,600 | |
| Express & Parcels | 36,719 | 37,300 | |
| Portugal | 22,932 | 24,434 | |
| Parcels | 17,126 | 18,912 | |
| Cargo | 3.186 | 2.819 | |
| Banking network | 1,592 | 1.771 | |
| Logistics | 708 | 671 | |
| Other | 320 | 261 | |
| Spain | 13,306 | 12.111 | |
| Mozambique | 480 | 755 | |
| Financial Services | 10,542 | 12.966 | |
| Savings & Insurance | 6.119 | 8.634 | |
| Money orders | 1,382 | 1.494 | |
| Payments | 159 | 141 | |
| Retail | 2.706 | 2.654 | |
| Other | 176 | 43 | |
| Bank | 9,000 | 19,474 | |
| Net interest income | 2,500 | 4,089 | |
| Interest income | 2.669 | 4.354 | |
| Interest expense | (169) | (266) | |
| Fees & commissions income | 1.586 | 2.797 | |
| Own produts | 1,073 | 1,715 | |
| Consumer credit & insurance | 512 | 1,083 | |
| Payments & other | 4.914 | 4,612 | |
| 321 Crédito | 7,976 | ||
| 176,862 | 179.909 |
The assets by segment are detailed as follows:
| Restated 31.12.2019 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets (Euros) | Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | Non allocated assets |
Total | |
| Intaqible assets | 20.426.590 | 5.514.463 | 200.198 | 27.682.577 | 8.188.816 | 62,012,644 |
| Tanqible fixed assets | 22,255,084 | 33,599,340 | 42.095 | 3,204,855 | 4,341,666 | 263,443,040 |
| Investment properties | 7,653,000 | 7,653,000 | ||||
| Goodwill | 6.161.326 | 2.955.753 | 61.084.749 | 70,201,828 | ||
| Deferred tax assets | 89,329,806 | 89,329,806 | ||||
| Accounts receivable | 146,471,712 | 146,471,712 | ||||
| Credit to bank clients | 885,820,569 | 885,820,569 | ||||
| Debt securities | 456,411,331 | 456,411,331 | ||||
| Other banking financial assets | 33,424,335 | 33,424,335 | ||||
| Other assets | 54,871,239 | 54,871,239 | ||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 5.403.455 | 174.819.282 | 262.772.987 | 442,995,724 | ||
| Non-current assets held for sale | 805,675 | 805,675 | ||||
| 248,843,001 | 47,473,011 | 242,294 | 1,643,253,372 | 573,629,227 | 2,513,440,904 |
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| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets (Euros) | Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | Non allocated assets |
Total | |
| Intagible assets | 24.443.170 | 5.211.193 | 252.678 | 27.032.046 | 2.033.306 | 58.972.393 |
| Tanqible fixed assets | 220,968,447 | 33.140.342 | 56.977 | 3.391.403 | 4.161.019 | 261,718,187 |
| Investment properties | 7,588,618 | 7,588,618 | ||||
| Goodwill | 6.161.326 | 2.955.753 | 61.084.749 | 70,201,828 | ||
| Deferred tax assets | 88,828,741 | 88,828,741 | ||||
| Accounts receivable | 140,531,520 | 140,531,520 | ||||
| Credit to bank clients | 947,163,230 | 947.163.230 | ||||
| Debt securities | 474.237.460 | 474.237.460 | ||||
| Other banking financial assets | 31,988,314 | 31,988,314 | ||||
| Other assets | 57,461,201 | 57,461,201 | ||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 5.578.800 | 151.159.492 | 142.237.760 | 298.976.052 | ||
| Non-current assets held for sale | 804,139 | 804,139 | ||||
| 251,572,943 | 46,886,088 | 309,655 | 1,696,860,833 | 442,842,166 | 2,438,471,684 |
| Other information (Euros) | Restated 31.12.2019 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | i otal | ||||
| Non-current debt | 127.309.217 | 19.770.671 | 30,858 | 1,487,187 | 148.597.934 | ||
| Bank Ioans | 81.702.538 | 81,702,538 | |||||
| Lease liabilities | 45,606,680 | 19.770.671 | 30,858 | 1,487,187 | 66,895,396 | ||
| Current debt | 12,896,744 | 13,203,570 | 11,589 | 701.665 | 26,813,567 | ||
| Bank loans | 9.749.470 | 9.749.470 | |||||
| Lease liabilities | 12.896.744 | 3.454.099 | 11,589 | 701,665 | 17.064.097 | ||
| 140 205 961 | 27 974 741 | 47 447 | 2 1 88 857 | 175 411 501 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other information (Euros) | Express & Parcels | Financial Services & Retail |
Bank | Total | ||
| Non-current debt | 125.194.092 | 19,029,972 | 40,404 | 1,762,655 | 146.027,123 | |
| Bank loans | 81.933.277 | 81.933.277 | ||||
| Lease liabilities | 43.260.814 | 19,029,972 | 40,404 | 1,762,655 | 64,093,845 | |
| Current debt | 14.778.155 | 13.047.486 | 17,251 | 632,396 | 28.475.288 | |
| Bank loans | 9.743.479 | 9.743.479 | ||||
| Lease liabilities | 14.778.155 | 3.304.007 | 17.251 | 632.396 | 18,731,809 | |
| 139.972.247 | 32.077.458 | 57,655 | 2,395,051 | 174.502.411 |
The Groupis domiciled in Portugal. The result of its Sales and services rendered by geographical segment is disclosed below:
| Thousand Euros | 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue - Portugal | 143.518 | 138.225 |
| Revenue - other countries | 26.634 | 25.168 |
| 170.152 | 163.393 |
The financial statements are subject to seasonality, however this does not affect comparability between identical periods in a given year. There are nonetheless atypical / non-recurring factors that may affect comparability between equal periods of the several years such as the number of working days of the period (mobile holidays or weekend holidays), special events (elections, promotional campaigns for clients) which may impact the revenue to increase from one period to another.
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movements occurred in Tangible fixed assets, as well as the respective accumulated depreciation, regarding the Group were as follows:


| 31.12.2019 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| resources | Land and natural Buildings and other constructions |
Basic equipment | Transport equipment |
Office equipment | assets | Other tangible fixed Tangible fixed assets Advance payments in progress |
to suppliers | Rights of use | Total | |
| Tangible fixed assets | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 35,591,993 | 334,565,087 | 143,060,832 | 3,597,961 | 63,825,994 | 26,571,051 | 2.409.296 | 174.162 | 217,781,407 | 827,577,785 |
| Acquisitions | 289.864 | 5,397,771 | 205,223 | 4,132,769 | 1,087,015 | 5,037,328 | 10.933.074 | 27,083,044 | ||
| New contracts | 6,995,186 | 6,995,186 | ||||||||
| Disposals | (11.962) | (302.339) | (1.085.186) | (828) | (10.822) | (1.411.137) | ||||
| Transfers and write-offs | 3,990,959 | 8,798,878 | (199.167) | 714,914 | (14.188) | (3.990.959) | (8.693.236) | (1.023.301) | (416.100) | |
| Terminated contracts | (47,988,327) | (47,988,327 | ||||||||
| Remeasurements | 2.200.608 | 2.200.608 | ||||||||
| Adjustments | 497 | 12.141 | 461 | 875 | 590 | 108.299 | 122.863 | |||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 420,472 | 692,154 | 175.664 | 1,549,917 | 2,838,207 | |||||
| Othermovements | 1,826,550 | 35,907 | 1,862,457 | |||||||
| Closing balance | 35,580,031 | 338,964,540 | 156.184.436 | 3,603,651 | 69,355,884 | 29,646,684 | 3,491,573 | 2.414.000 | 179.623.789 | 818,864,586 |
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 3,739,154 | 210.562.512 | 127.971.545 | 3,428,245 | 58.772.955 | 22.311.709 | 136,058,784 | 562.844.906 | ||
| Depreciation for the period | 9,445,914 | 5,641,044 | 56,981 | 2,342,240 | 1,803,688 | 21,631,653 | 40,921,520 | |||
| Disposals | (1.747) | (192,958) | (1,022,632) | (828) | (14.649) | (1.232.814) | ||||
| Transfers and write-offs | 107,382 | (128,381) | 640,734 | 40.895 | (858.850) | (198.220) | ||||
| Terminated contracts | (47,988,327) | (47.988.327) | ||||||||
| Adjustments | 89 | 7.736 | 325 | 759 | 506 | 9,415 | ||||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 164,081 | 666,123 | 121,676 | 89.014 | 1,040,894 | |||||
| Closing balance | 3,737,406 | 219,979,639 | 132,705,076 | 3,356,342 | 62,408,163 | 24,278,473 | 108,932,275 | 555,397,374 | ||
| Accumulated impairment | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 24.255 | 24,255 | ||||||||
| Other variations | (83) | (83) | ||||||||
| Closing balance | 24,172 | 24,172 | ||||||||
| Net Tangible fixed assets | 31,842,624 | 118.984.901 | 23.479.360 | 247,308 | 6.947.721 | 5.344.038 | 3.491.573 | 2.414.000 | 70.691.514 | 263,443,040 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| resources | Land and natural Buildings and other constructions |
Basic equipment | Transport equipment |
Office equipment | Other tangible fixed assets |
assets in progress | Tangible fixed Advance payments to suppliers |
Rights of use | Tota | |
| Tanqible fixed assets | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 35,580,031 | 338.964.540 | 156.184.436 | 3.603.651 | 69.355.884 | 29.646.684 | 3.491.573 | 2.414.000 | 179.623.789 | 818.864.586 |
| Acquisitions | 79.976 | 3.225.253 | 6.771 | 95.578 | 194.914 | 814,450 | 19.950 | 4.436.893 | ||
| New contracts | 792.973 | 792.973 | ||||||||
| Disposals | (8.099) | (149,792) | (2.238) | (2.542) | (162.671 | |||||
| Transfers and write=offs | 106.000 | (4.359) | (51.486) | (5.335.372) | (106.000) | (8.671) | (5,399,889) | |||
| Terminated contracts | ||||||||||
| Remeasurements | 3.475.051 | 3.475.051 | ||||||||
| Adjustments | (1.424) | (52.416) | (2.130) | (24.937) | (8.907) | (89.813) | ||||
| Closing balance | 35,571,931 | 338,999,300 | 159.355.036 | 3.603.933 | 69.372.497 | 24,497,319 | 4,200,022 | 2.425.279 | 183,891,812 | 821.917.129 |
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 3.737.406 | 219.979.639 | 132.705.076 | 3.356.342 | 62,408,163 | 24.278.473 | 108.932.275 | 555,397,374 | ||
| Depreciation for the period | 2,373,923 | 1.613.366 | 14.921 | 630.656 | 292.394 | 5,328,933 | 10,254,193 | |||
| Disposals | (460) | (95.058) | (2.238) | (2.542) | (100.297) | |||||
| Transfers and write=offs | (4.359) | (9.021) | (5.332.123) | (5.345.504) | ||||||
| Terminated contracts | ||||||||||
| Adjustments | (339) | (25,851) | (1.006) | (2.153) | (1.648) | (30.996) | ||||
| Closing balance | 3.736.946 | 222.258.164 | 134.290.354 | 3,365,898 | 63.025.103 | 19.237.096 | 114.261.208 | 560.174.770 | ||
| Accumulated impairment | ||||||||||
| Opening balance | 24.172 | 24.172 | ||||||||
| Other variations | = | 1 | - | |||||||
| Closing balance | 24.172 | 24.172 | ||||||||
| Net Tanqible fixed assets | 31,834,985 | 116,741,135 | 25,064,682 | 238,035 | 6,347,393 | 5,236,051 | 4,200,022 | 2,425,279 | 69,630,604 | 261,718,187 |
The depreciation recorded in the Group amounting to 10,254,193 Euros on 31 March 2019), is booked under the heading Depreciation / amortisation and impairment of investments, net.
In the year ended 31 December 2019, the caption Changes in the consolidation perimeter in the Group, relates to the balances of the company 321 Crédito – Instituição Financeira de Crédito, S.A. acquired in May 2019.
In the Group as at 31 March 2020, Land and natural resources and Buildings and other constructions include 546,705 Euros (554,730 Euros as at 31 December 2019), related to land and property in co-ownership with MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, S.A..
According to the concession contractin force, at the end of the concession, the assets included in the public and private domain of the State revert automatically, at no cost, to the conceding entity. As the postal network belongs exclusively to CTT, not being a public domain asset, only the assets that belong to the State revert to it, and as such, at the concession CTT will continue to own its assets. The Board of Directors, supported on CTT's accounting records and the statement of Directorate General of Treasury and Finance ("Direção Geral do Tesouro e Finanças"), the entity responsible for the Information System of Public Buildings ("Sistema de Informação de Imóveis do Estado" – SIIE) believes that CTT's assets do not include any public or private domain assets of the Portuguese State.
As under the concession contract, the grantor does not control any significant residual interest in CTT's postal network and CTT being free to dispose of, replace or encumber the assets that integrate the postal network, IFRC 12 - Service Concession Agreements is not applicable to the universal postal service concession contract.
During the year ended 31 March 2020, the most significant movements in Tangible Fixed Assets were the following:


The movements associated to acquisitions and transfers relate mostly to the capitalisation of repairs in own and third-party buildings of CTT.
The amount of acquisitions mainly relates to the acquisition of parcel sorting machines in the amount of 3,186 thousand Euros by CTT.
The amount of acquisitions mainly relates to prevention and safety equipment for approximately 186 thousand Euros by CTT.
The amounts under this heading are related to the capitalisation of improvements in own and third-party properties.
Following the adoption of IFRS 16 the Group recognised rights of use, detailed by type of asset, as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buildings | Vehicles | Other assets | Total | |||
| Tanqible fixed assets | ||||||
| Opening balance | 187,977,519 | 28,092,244 | 1,711,643 | 217,781,407 | ||
| New contracts | 3,275,146 | 3,643,838 | 76.202 | 6,995,186 | ||
| Transfers and write-offs | (1.004.078) | (19,223) | (1,023,301) | |||
| Terminated contracts | (36.450.459) | (11,252,228) | (285,640) | (47,988,327) | ||
| Remeasurements | 2,200,608 | 2,200,608 | ||||
| Adjustments | 24,605 | 56,854 | 26,839 | 108,299 | ||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 1,419,084 | 130,833 | 1,549,917 | |||
| Closing balance | 157,442,425 | 20,652,319 | 1,529,045 | 179,623,789 | ||
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||||
| Opening balance | 123,639,470 | 11,900,424 | 518,891 | 136,058,784 | ||
| Depreciation for the period | 15.252.183 | 6.015.929 | 363.540 | 21.631.653 | ||
| Transfers and write-offs | (855,861) | (2.989) | (858,850) | |||
| Terminated contracts | (36,450,459) | (11,252,228) | (285,640) | (47,988,327) | ||
| Adjustments | 5 | (5) | ||||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 71,751 | 17,264 | 89,014 | |||
| Closing balance | 101,657,089 | 6,678,395 | 596,791 | 108,932,275 | ||
| Net Tangible fixed assets | 55.785.336 | 13,973,924 | 932.254 | 70.691.514 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buildings | Vehicles | Other assets | Total | |||
| Tanqible fixed assets | ||||||
| Opening balance | 157,442,425 | 20,652,319 | 1,529,045 | 179,623,789 | ||
| New contracts | 9.629 | 783.344 | 792,973 | |||
| Remeasurements | 3,475,051 | 3,475,051 | ||||
| Closing balance | 160,927,104 | 21,435,663 | 1,529,045 | 183,891,812 | ||
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||||
| Opening balance | 101,657,089 | 6,678,395 | 596,791 | 108,932,275 | ||
| Depreciation for the period | 4,062,339 | 1.194.548 | 72.046 | 5,328,933 | ||
| Transfers and write-offs | ||||||
| Terminated contracts | ||||||
| Closing balance | 105,719,428 | 7,872,943 | 668,837 | 114,261,208 | ||
| Net Tanqible fixed assets | 55,207,676 | 13,562,720 | 860,208 | 69,630,604 |
The depreciation recorded, in the Group, in the amount of 5,328,933 Euros on 31 March 2019), is booked under the heading Depreciation / amortisation and impairment of investments, net.
Information on the liabilities associated with these leases as well as the interest expenses are disclosed on the notes 18 -Debt and Note 24 - Interest expenses and Interest income, respectively.


In the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the Group entered into a sale & lease back agreement for the building held in Sintra. This operation met the requirements of IFRS 15 to be accounted for as a sale of the asset, having originated a capital gain in the amount of 590 thousand Euros, recognised in the caption "Gains / losses on disposal of assets", as well as the registration of a right of use in the amount of 9,629 Euros and a Lease liability of 117,353 Euros.
In the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, no interest on toans was capitalised, in the Group, as no loans were directly identified attributable to the acquisition of an asset that requires a substantial riod of time (greater than one year) to reach its status of use.
According to the analysis of impairment signs with reference to 31 March 2020, no events or circumstances were identified that indicate that the amount for which the Group's tangible fixed assets are recorded may not be recovered.
There are no tangible fixed assets with restricted ownership or any carrying value relative to any tangible fixed assets which have been given as a guarantee of liabilities.
The Group contractual commitments, related to Tangible fixed assets, are as follows:
| 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|
| lmprovements in properties | 676,613 |
| Trucks | 294.676 |
| DVE – Explosives Detector | 31,882 |
| 1.003.171 |
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movements which occurred in the main categories of the Group Intangible assets, as well as the respective accumulated amortisation, were as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development projects | Computer Software | Industrial property Other intangible assets | Intanqible assets in progress |
Advance payments to suppliers |
Total | ||
| Intanqible assets | |||||||
| Opening balance | 4,380,552 | 98,081,032 | 14,252,424 | 444,739 | 15,139,681 | 132,298,428 | |
| Acquisitions | 1,106,752 | 2,365,069 | 14,817,787 | 69,072 | 18,358,681 | ||
| Disposals | - | ||||||
| Transfers and write-offs | 13,595,464 | 8,579 | (14,331,297) | (69,072) | (796,326) | ||
| Adjustments | 1,400 | 9,098 | 10,498 | ||||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 1,092,007 | 213,269 | 462,568 | 1,767,844 | |||
| Closing balance | 4,380,552 | 113,876,654 | 16,848,440 | 444,739 | 16,088,740 | 151,639,125 | |
| Accumulated amortisation | |||||||
| Opening balance | 4,375,722 | 61,288,015 | 9,419,396 | 444,739 | 75,527,871 | ||
| Amortisation for the period | 1,272 | 12,754,618 | 782,218 | 13,538,108 | |||
| Disposals | |||||||
| Transfers and write-offs | (730,878) | 3,624 | (727,254) | ||||
| Adjustments | 1,400 | 4,087 | 5,487 | ||||
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 1,082,878 | 199,390 | 1,282,268 | ||||
| Closing balance | 4,376,994 | 74,396,033 | 10,408,714 | 444,739 | 89,626,480 | ||
| Net intangible assets | 3,558 | 39,480,622 | 6,439,725 | 16,088,740 | 1 | 62,012,644 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development projects | Computer Software | Industrial property Other intanqible assets | Intangible assets in progress |
Advance payments to suppliers |
Total | ||
| Intangible assets | |||||||
| Opening balance | 4,380,552 | 113,876,654 | 16,848,440 | 444,739 | 16,088,740 | 151,639,125 | |
| Acquisitions | 37,227 | 1,109,690 | 1,146,917 | ||||
| Disposals | - | - | |||||
| Transfers and write-offs | 8,367,387 | (8,310,151) | 57,237 | ||||
| Adjustments | (26,588) | (80,876) | 1 | (107,465) | |||
| Closing balance | 4,380,552 | 122,281,268 | 16,821,851 | 444,739 | 8,807,402 | 152,735,813 | |
| Accumulated amortisation | |||||||
| Opening balance | 4,376,994 | 74,396,033 | 10,408,714 | 444,739 | 89,626,480 | ||
| Amortisation for the period | 319 | 3,841,925 | 304,017 | 4,146,261 | |||
| Disposals | |||||||
| Transfers and write-offs | - | 3,180 | 1 | 1 | 3,180 | ||
| Adjustments | (12,501) | - | (12,501) | ||||
| Closing balance | 4,377,313 | 78,241,138 | 10,700,230 | 444,739 | 93,763,420 | ||
| Net intangible assets | 3,239 | 44,040,131 | 6,121,621 | 8,807,402 | - | 58,972,393 |


The amortisation in the Group for the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, amounting to 4,146,261 Euros (3,067,388 Euros as at 31 March 2019) was recorded under Depreciation and impairment of investments, net.
In the year ended 31 December 2019, the caption Changes in the consolidation perimeter in the Group, relates to the balances of the company 321 Crédito - Instituição Financeira de Crédito, S.A. as at the acquisition date.
The caption Industrial property in the Group includes the license of the trademark "Payshop International" of CTT Contacto, S.A., in the amount of 1,200,000 Euros. This license has an indefinite useful life, therefore it is not amortised.
The transfers occurred in the year ended 31 December 2019 and the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, from Intangible assets in progress to Computer software refer to IT projects, which were completed during the referred periods.
The amounts of 273,007 Euros and 255,960 Euros were capitalised in computer software or in intangible assets in progress as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, respectively, related to Groupstaff costs incurred in the development of these projects.
As at 31 March 2020 the Group Intangible assets in progress, relate to IT projects which are under development, of which the most relevant are:
| Group | |
|---|---|
| Accipiens software | 1.060.420 |
| Mortgage loans - software | 673.632 |
| AS/400 software | 568.470 |
| Data Governance - software | 497.171 |
| Transactions broker - software | 479.467 |
| SAP Hana & Hybris Billing | 451.274 |
| Management information - Software | 451.040 |
| Transaction Monitoring - software | 450.140 |
| Account Opening Process - software | 354.627 |
| Mailmanager - software | 338,289 |
| 5,324,529 |
The Group has not identified any relevant uncertainties regarding the conclusion of ongoing projects, nor about their recoverability. Even so, the recoverability of the values of intangible assets in progress was tested in the scope of impairment tests of the assets of the Cash Generating Unit to which they belong, performed with reference to 31 December 2019.
Most of the projects are expected to be completed in 2020.
The amount of research and development expenses incurred by the Group in 2019, in the amount of 1,063,800 Euros was disclosed in Note 25.
There are no intangible assets with restricted ownership or any carrying value relative to any intangible assets which have been given as a guarantee of liabilities.
In the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, no interest on loans were capitalised, in the Group, as no loans were directly identified attributable to the acquisition of an asset that requires a substantial period of time (greater than one year) to reach its status of use.
According to the analysis of impairment signs with reference to 31 March 2020, no events or circumstances were identified that indicate that the amount for which the Group's intangible assets are recorded may not be recovered.


Contractual commitments relative to the Group Intangible assets are as follows:
| 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|
| CBS - Core Banking System | 1.200.000 |
| Account Opening Process | 485,000 |
| Data Iqnition | 365.000 |
| Projeto X | 302,000 |
| Sharepoint Sunset | 270.000 |
| 2.622.000 |
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Grouphas the following assets classified as investment properties:
| 31 12 2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land and natural resources |
Buildings and other constructions |
Total | |||
| Investment properties | |||||
| Opening balance | 3,508,355 | 16,538,633 | 20,046,988 | ||
| Additions | |||||
| Disposals | (195,997) | (1,528,862) | (1,724,859) | ||
| Closing balance | 3,312,358 | 15,009,771 | 18,322,129 | ||
| Accumulated depreciation | |||||
| Opening balance | 234,974 | 10,388,531 | 10,623,505 | ||
| Depreciation for the period | 261,092 | 261,092 | |||
| Disposals | (21,122) | (943.491) | (964.612) | ||
| Closing balance | 213,853 | 9.706.133 | 9.919.985 | ||
| Accumulated impairment | |||||
| Opening balance | 1,243,502 | 1,243,502 | |||
| Impairment for the period | (494.358) | (494.358) | |||
| Closing balance | 749,144 | 749,144 | |||
| Net Investment properties | 3,098,506 | 4,554,494 | 7,653,000 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land and natural resources |
Buildings and other constructions |
Total | ||
| Investment properties | ||||
| Openinq balance | 3,312,358 | 15,009,771 | 18,322,129 | |
| Additions | ||||
| Disposals | ||||
| Closing balance | 3.312.358 | 15,009,771 | 18,322,129 | |
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||
| Opening balance | 213.853 | 9.706.133 | 9.919.985 | |
| Depreciation for the period | 64.382 | 64,382 | ||
| Disposals | ||||
| Closing balance | 213,853 | 9,770,514 | 9,984,367 | |
| Accumulated impairment | ||||
| Opening balance | 749,144 | 749,144 | ||
| Impairment for the period | ||||
| Closing balance | 749.144 | 749,144 | ||
| Net Investment properties | 3.098.506 | 4,490,113 | 7,588,618 |
These assets are not allocated to the Group operating activities, being in the market available for lease.
Depreciation for the three-month period ended on 31 March 2020, of 64,382 Euros on 31 March 2019) was recorded in the caption Depreciation/amortisation and impairment of investments, net.


The market value of these assets, which are classified as investment property, in accordance with the valuations obtained at the end of the fiscal year 2019 which were conducted by independent entities, amounts to 12,261,900 Euros.
In the year ended 31 December 2019, the amount recorded under the disposals heading relates to the sale of three properties having the corresponding accounting gains, of 353 thousand Euros, been recorded in the caption Gains/Losses on disposal of assets.
Impairment losses for the year ended 31 December 2019 amounting to (494,358) Euros were recorded in the caption Depreciation/amortisation and impairments, net and are explained by the market value reduction observed in some buildings.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the parent company, CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. and the following subsidiaries were included in the consolidation:
| Company name | Place of business | Head office | 31.12.2019 Percentage of ownership |
31.03.2020 Percentage of ownership |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | Indirect | Total | Direct | Indirect | Total | |||
| Parent company: | ||||||||
| CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. | Portugal | Av. D. João II Nº 13 1999-001 Lishoa |
||||||
| Subsidiaries: | ||||||||
| CTT Expresso - Serviços Postais e Logística, S.A. ("CTT Expresso") |
Portugal | Av. D. João II N.º 13 1999-001 Lisboa |
100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Payshop Portugal, S.A. ("Payshop") |
Portugal | Av. D. loão II Nº 13 1999-001 Lisboa |
- | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| CTT Contacto, S.A. | Av. D. João II N.º 13 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |||
| ("CTT Con") | Portugal | 1999-001 Lisboa | ||||||
| Correio Expresso de Mocambique, S.A. | Mozambique | Av. 24 de Julho, Edificio 24, n.º 1097, 3.º Piso, Bairro da Polana |
50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | ||
| ("CORRE") | Maputo - Mozambique | |||||||
| Banco CTT, S.A. ("BancoCTT") |
Portugal | Av. D. loão II Nº 13 1999-001 Lisboa |
100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| 321 Crédito - Instituição Financeira de Crédito, S.A. ("321 Crédito") |
Portugal | Av. Duque d'Avila, 46, 7ª B 1050-083 Lisboa |
100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
ln relation to the company CORRE, as the Group has the right to variable returns arising from its involvement and the ability to affect those returns, it is included in the consolidation.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group held the following interests in joint ventures, registered through the equity method:
| Company name | Place of business | Head office | 31.12.2019 Percentage of ownership |
31.03.2020 Percentage of ownership |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | Indirect | Total | Direct | Indirect | Total | |||
| NewPost. ACE | Portugal | Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40 Lisboa |
49 | - | 49 | 49 | 49 | |
| PTP & F. ACE | Portugal | Estrada Casal do Canas Amadora |
51 | - | 51 | 51 | 51 | |
| MKTPlace - Comércio Eletrónico, S.A ("MKTP") |
Portugal | Rua Eng.º Ferreira Dias 924 Esc. 5 Porto |
50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
On 2 April, 6 May and 6 August 2019, the company MKTPlace – Comércio Eletrónico, S.A., was subject to capital increases in the amount of 3,625,523 Euros made by CTT.


As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group held the following interests in associated companies accounted for by the equity method:
| Company name | Place of business | Head office | 31.12.2019 Percentage of ownership |
31.03.2020 Percentage of ownership |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Indirect |
Total Direct |
Indirect | Total | |||||
| Multicert - Serviços de Certificação Electrónica, S.A. ("Multicert") |
Portugal | Lagoas Parque, Edifício 3, Piso 3 Oeiras |
20 | - | 20 | 20 | - | 20 |
| Mafelosa, SL(a) | Spain | Castellon - Spain | - | 25 | 25 | - | 25 | 25 |
| Urpacksur, SL (a) | Spain | Málaga - Spain | - | 30 | 30 | - | 30 | 30 |
49 Companyheldby CTT Expresso - Serviços Postais eLogistica, S.A.,branch in Spain (until 2018 was herity has no activity.
Additionally, considering the requirements of IFRS 10, the Group's consolidation perimeter includes the following structured entities:
| Name | Constitution Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulisses Finance No.1 | 2017 | Portugal | 12.2% | Full |
| Chaves Funding No.8 ' ' | 2019 | Portugal | 100% | Full |
(*) Entities incorporated in the scope of securitisation operations, recorded in the consolidated financial statements in accordance with the Group's continued involvement, determined based on the residual interests (equity piece) of the respective vehicles .
The main impacts of the consolidation of these structured entities on the Group's accounts are the following:
| 31.12.2019 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 7.730.012 | 8.927.762 |
| Other banking financial liabilities (Debt securities issued) |
76.077.368 67.611.091 |
Changes in the consolidation perimeter
In the year ended 31 December 2019, the consolidation perimeter was changed following the acquisition of 321 Crédito – Instituição Financeira de Crédito, S.A..
During the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, there were no changes in the consolidation perimeter.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the caption Debt securities, in the Group, showed the following composition:


| 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Non-current | ||
| Financial assets at fair value through other | ||
| comprehensive income (1) | ||
| Government bonds | 528,420 | 1.504.819 |
| Bonds issued by other entities | 31.12.2019 528.420 409,886,034 14.605.943 (169.217) 424.322.759 424,851,179 13,727 |
9,177,417 |
| 10.682.236 | ||
| Financial assets at amortised cost | ||
| Government bonds | 424,299,602 | |
| Bonds issued by other entities | 4,362,706 | |
| Impairment | (171.646) | |
| 428,490,662 | ||
| 439,172,898 | ||
| Current | ||
| Financial assets at fair value through other | ||
| comprehensive income (1) | ||
| Government bonds | 23,639 | |
| Bonds issued by other entities | 4.906 | |
| 13,727 | 28.546 | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | ||
| Government bonds | 31,536,069 | 21,663,909 |
| Bonds issued by other entities | 14.491 | 13,377,489 |
| Impairment | (4,136) | (5.382) |
| 31.546.424 | 35,036,016 | |
| 31,560,152 | 35,064,562 | |
| 456,411,331 | 474,237,460 |
(1) As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 includes the amount of 225 Euros and 6,501 Euros, respectively, regarding Accumulated impairment losses.
The analysis of the Financial assets at fair Value through other comprehensive income and the Financial assets at amortised cost, by remaining maturity, as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 is detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | ||||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income (1) |
|||||||
| Government honds | |||||||
| National | 13,727 | 13,727 | 528,420 | 528,420 | 542,147 | ||
| Foreign | 1 | - | |||||
| Bonds issued by other entities | |||||||
| National | |||||||
| Foreign | |||||||
| 13,727 | 13,727 | 528,420 | 528,420 | 542,147 | |||
| 14 Ac at 21 December 2019 includes the amount of 225 Euros regarding Accumulated instac |
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | ||||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | |||||||
| Government bonds | |||||||
| National | 4.538.504 | 4.717.697 | 9.256.202 | 41.143.284 | 236,717,591 | 277,860,875 | 287,117,077 |
| Foreign | 752.422 | 21.527.446 | 22.279.868 | 34.645.814 | 97.379.345 | 132,025,158 | 154,305,026 |
| Bonds issued by other entities | |||||||
| National | 14,491 | 14.491 | 14,605,943 | 14,605,943 | 14.620.434 | ||
| Foreign | |||||||
| 5.305.417 | 26.245.143 | 31.550.561 | 90.395.041 | 334.096.936 | 424.491.976 | 456.042.537 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | ||||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Financial assets at fair value through other | |||||||
| comprehensive income(1) | |||||||
| Government bonds | |||||||
| National | 23,639 | 23,639 | 1,504,819 | 1 | 1,504,819 | 1,528,458 | |
| Foreign | - | ||||||
| Bonds issued by other entities | |||||||
| National | 4.906 | 4,906 | 9,177,417 | - | 9.177.417 | 9.182,323 | |
| Foreign | - | 1 | |||||
| 28,546 | - | 28,546 | 10,682,236 | 1 | 10,682,236 | 10,710,782 |
(1) As at 31 March 2020 includes the amount of 6,501 Euros regarding Accumulated impairment losses.


| 31.03.2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | ||||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | |||||||
| Government bonds | |||||||
| National | 6.933.541 | 6.933.541 | 40.993.954 | 235,977,720 | 276,971,674 | 283.905.215 | |
| Foreign | 7.935.294 | 6.795.074 | 14.730.368 | 34.622.143 | 112.705.786 | 147.327.929 | 162,058,296 |
| Bonds issued by other entities | |||||||
| National | 5.761.736 | 7.615.754 | 13.377.489 | 4.362.706 | 1 | 4.362.706 | 17.740.195 |
| Foreign | |||||||
| 20.630.571 | 14.410.827 | 35,041,398 | 79.978.803 | 348.683.506 | 428,662,308 | 463,703,706 |
The impairment losses, for the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, are detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Closing balance | ||
| Non-current assets | |||||||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
504 | 19 | (40,529) | (299) | 40,529 | 225 | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 164.379 | 31,512 | (43.292) | 16.618 | 169.217 | ||
| 164.883 | 31,531 | (83.821) | (299) | 57.147 | 169,442 | ||
| Current assets | |||||||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
127.286 | 1 | (86.757) | (40.529) | - | ||
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 18.447 | 2.678 | (370) | (16.618) | 4,136 | ||
| 145,733 | 2,678 | (370) | (86,757) | (57,147) | 4,136 | ||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
127.790 | 19 | (40.529) | (87.056) | - | 225 | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 182,826 | 34,190 | (43.662) | 1 | 173,353 | ||
| 310,616 | 34,209 | (84,191) | (87,056) | 1 | 173,578 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Closing balance | ||
| Non-current assets | |||||||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive Income |
225 | 6,259 | 6.484 | ||||
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 169.217 | 8.914 | (5.351) | (1.134) | 171,646 | ||
| 169,442 | 15,173 | (5.351) | (1.134) | 178,130 | |||
| Current assets | |||||||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
17 | 17 | |||||
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 4,136 | 280 | (168) | 1,134 | 5.382 | ||
| 4,136 | 297 | (168) | 1 | 1,134 | 5,399 | ||
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
225 | 6.276 | 1 | - | - | 6.501 | |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 173,353 | 9,194 | (5.519) | - | 177,028 | ||
| 173.578 | 15.469 | (5.519) | - | 1 | 183.528 |
Regarding the movements in impairment losses of Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income by stages, in the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, they are detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | |
| Opening balance | 127,790 | 225 |
| Change in the accounting standards | ||
| Change in period: | ||
| Increases due to origination and acquisition | 6.275 | |
| Changes due to change in credit risk | 19 | 1 |
| Decrease due to derecognition repayments and disposals | (127.585) | |
| Write-offs | ||
| Changes due to update in the institution's methodology for estimation | ||
| Foreign exchange and other | ||
| Impairment - Financial assets at fair value through other | 225 | |
| comprehensive income | 6,501 |
The reconciliation of accounting movements related to impairment losses is presented below:


| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | ||
| Opening balance | 127,790 | 225 | |
| Change in the accounting standards | |||
| Change in period: | |||
| ECL income statement change for the period | (40.510) | 6.276 | |
| Stage transfers (net) | |||
| Disposals | |||
| Utilisations during the period | (87.056) | ||
| Write-offs | |||
| Write-off recoveries | |||
| Foreign exchange and other | |||
| Impairment - Financial assets at fair value through other | 225 | 6.501 | |
| comprehensive income |
For the impairment losses of Financial assets at amortised cost, the movements by stages, in the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, they are detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | |
| Opening balance | 182.825 | 173,353 |
| Change in the accounting standards | ||
| Change in period: | ||
| Increases due to origination and acquisition | 13,008 | 1,951 |
| Changes due to change in credit risk | (4,033) | 2.003 |
| Decrease due to derecognition repayments and disposals | (18,447) | (278) |
| Write-offs | ||
| Changes due to update in the institution's methodology for estimation | ||
| Foreign exchange and other | ||
| Impairment - Financial assets at amortised cost | 173.353 | 177.028 |
The reconciliation of accounting movements related to impairment losses is presented below:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | ||
| Opening balance | 182.825 | 173,353 | |
| Change in the accounting standards | |||
| Change in period: | |||
| ECL income statement change for the period | (9.473) | 3,675 | |
| Stage transfers (net) | |||
| Disposals | |||
| Utilisations during the period | |||
| Write-offs | |||
| Write-off recoveries | |||
| Foreign exchange and other | |||
| Impairment - Financial assets at amortised cost | 173.353 | 177.028 |
According to the current accounting policy, the Group regularly assesses whether there is objective evidence of impairment in its financial asset portfolios at fair value through other comprehensive income and other financial cost, following the criteria defined in the accounting policies.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group headings Other banking financial assets and Other banking financial liabilities showed the following composition:


| and the production of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comm | 227777777777 | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-current assets | ||
| Investments in credit institutions | ||
| Loans to credit institutions | 18,928,416 | 16,956,034 |
| Impairment | (166,249) | (148,926) |
| Other | 1,882 | 2,162 |
| 18,764,049 | 16,809,270 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Investments in credit institutions | 1,650,072 | 2,350,000 |
| Loans to credit institutions | 11,551,960 | 10,356,483 |
| Impairment | (47,303) | (41,900) |
| Other | 5,688,014 | 5,773,478 |
| Impairment | (4,182,457) | (3,259,017) |
| 14,660,286 | 15,179,044 | |
| 33.424.335 | 31,988,314 | |
| Non-current liabilities | ||
| Debt securities issued | 76,060,295 | 67,595,563 |
| 76,060,295 | 67,595,563 | |
| Current liabilities | ||
| Debt securities issued | 17,073 | 15,528 |
| Other | 17,970,646 | 20,624,297 |
| 17,987,719 | 20,639,825 | |
| 94,048,014 | 88,235,388 |
Regarding the above-mentioned captions, the scheduling by maturity is as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 3 months | 3.367.931 | 3.203.217 |
| From 3 to 12 months | 9,834,101 | 9,503,266 |
| From 1 to 3 years | 13.689.301 | 12.838.813 |
| Over 3 years | 5.239.115 | 4,117,222 |
| 32,130,448 | 29,662,517 |
The impairment losses, for the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, are detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openinq balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
Closing balance |
|
| Non-current assets | |||||||
| Investments and loans in credit institutions | 217,751 | 91,523 | (244,427) | 101,403 | - | 166,249 | |
| 217,751 | 91,523 | (244,427) | 101,403 | - | 166,249 | ||
| Current assets | |||||||
| Investments and loans in credit institutions | 197,018 | 24,916 | (73,229) | (101,403) | 47,303 | ||
| Other | 10,927 | 224.755 | (53,534) | (10,927) | 4,011,235 | 4,182,457 | |
| 207,945 | 249,672 | (126,763) | - | (112,330) | 4,011,235 | 4,229,760 | |
| 425,696 | 341,194 | (371,190) | - | (10,927) | 4,011,235 | 4,396,009 | |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||||
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
Closing balance |
|
| Non-current assets | |||||||
| Investments and loans in credit institutions | 166,249 | 1.293 | (19,029) | 413 | 148,926 | ||
| 166,249 | 1,293 | (19,029) | - | 413 | - | 148,926 | |
| Current assets | |||||||
| Investments and loans in credit institutions | 47,303 | 364 | (5,354) | (413) | - | 41,900 | |
| Other | 4,182,457 | 4,999 | (928,438) | - | - | 3,259,017 | |
| 4.229.760 | 5,363 | (933.792) | - | (413) | - | 3,300,917 | |
| 4,396,009 | 6,655 | (952,821) | - | 1 | - | 3,449,843 |
Regarding the movements in impairment losses on investments and loans to credit institutions by stages, in the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, they are detailed as follows:


| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | ||
| Opening balance | 414,769 | 213,552 | |
| Change in the accounting standards | |||
| Change in period: | |||
| Increases due to origination and acquisition | 52.737 | 1,656 | |
| Changes due to change in credit risk | (64.377) | (21.930) | |
| Decrease due to derecognition repayments and disposals | (189,576) | (2.453) | |
| Write-offs | |||
| Changes due to update in the institution's methodology for estimation | |||
| Foreign exchange and other | |||
| Impairment | 213.552 | 190,826 |
The reconciliation of accounting movements related to impairment losses is presented below:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 | |
| Opening balance | 414,769 | 213,552 |
| Change in the accounting standards | ||
| Change in period: | ||
| ECL income statement change for the period | (201.217) | (22.726) |
| Stage transfers (net) | ||
| Disposals | ||
| Utilisations during the period | ||
| Write-offs | ||
| Write-off recoveries | ||
| Foreign exchange and other | ||
| Impairment | 213,552 | 190.826 |
This caption showed the following composition:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Securitisations | 76,077,368 | 67,611,091 |
| 76,077,368 | 67,611,091 |
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 the Debt securities issued are analysed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ssue | lssue date | Maturity date | Remuneration | Nominal value | Book value | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 – Class A | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 85 b.p. | 61.938.000 | 61.963.646 | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 – Class B | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 160 b.p. | 7.000.000 | 7.004.497 | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 - Class C | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 375 b.p. | 7.100.000 | 7.109.225 | |
| 76,038,000 | 76.077.368 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ssue | ssue date | Maturity date | Remuneration | Nominal value | Book value | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 - Class A | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 85 b.p. | 53.406.961 | 53,483,095 | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 - Class B | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 160 b.p. | 7.000.000 | 7.011.583 | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 - Class C | July 2017 | July 2033 | Euribor 1M + 375 b.p. | 7.100.000 | 7.116.413 | |
| 67,506,961 | 67,611,091 |
The movement of this item in the year ended 31 December 2019 and the three-month period ended 31 March 2020 is as follows:


| 31.12.2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
ssues | Repayments | Other movements |
Closing balance | |
| Chaves Funding No.7 | - | 201,660,418 | - | (201,600,000) | (60,418) | |
| Ulisses Finance No.1 | - | 101,060,139 | - | (25,007,517) | 24,746 | 76,077,368 |
| l | 302,720,556 | - | (226,607,517) | (35,672) | 76,077,368 | |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
| Changes in the | Other | |||||
| Opening balance | consolidation perimeter |
ssues | Repayments | movements | Closing balance | |
| Chaves Funding No.7 | ||||||
| Ulisses Finance No.1 | 76,077,368 | - | - | (8,531,092) | 64,816 | 67,611,091 |
| 76,077,368 | 1 | 1 | (8,531,092) | 64,816 | 67,611,091 |
The scheduling by maturity regarding this caption is as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | |||||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Securitisations | 17.073 | 1 | 17.073 | 1 | 76.060.295 | 76.060.295 | 76.077.368 |
| 17,073 | - | 17,073 | - | 76,060,295 | 76,060,295 | 76,077,368 | |
| Current | 31.03.2020 | Non-current | |||||
| months | Due within 3 Over 3 months and less than 1 year |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Securitisations | 15,528 | 15.528 | 67,595,563 | 67,595,563 | 67,611,091 |
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group caption Credit to banking clients was detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Performing loans | 884,922,781 | 947,100,296 |
| Mortgage Loans | 405,168,238 | 442,547,540 |
| Autol oans | 469.774.742 | 495,207.596 |
| Leasings | 8.977.360 | 8.236.411 |
| Overdrafts | 1,002,441 | 1,108,749 |
| Other credits | ||
| Overdue loans | 4.875.990 | 5.781.114 |
| Overdue loans - less than 90 days | 740.614 | 917,313 |
| Overdue loans - more than 90 days | 4.135.376 | 4.863.801 |
| 889,798,770 | 952,881,410 | |
| Credit risk impairment | (3.978.200) | (5,718.180) |
| 885,820,571 | 947,163,230 |
The maturity analysis of the Credit to bank clients as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 is detailed as follows:


| 31.12.2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | |||||||
| At sight / Undetermined |
Due within 3 months |
Over 3 months and less than 1 vear |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Mortgage loans | 563 | 2.963.207 | 8.424.196 | 11.387.966 | 22,801,200 | 370,979,635 | 393.780.835 | 405.168.801 |
| Auto Loans | 3.120.988 | 21.508.729 | 53.448.350 | 78.078.067 | 138.181.295 | 256,636,368 | 394.817.663 | 472.895.730 |
| Leasings | 445,221 | 671,623 | 1,843,173 | 2.960.017 | 3,962,260 | 2,500,304 | 6,462,564 | 9.422.580 |
| Overdrafts | 1.682.194 | 1,682,194 | 1,682,194 | |||||
| Other credits | 629,465 | 629.465 | 629,465 | |||||
| 5.878.431 | 25.143.559 | 63,715,719 | 94,737,709 | 164,944,755 | 630,116,307 | 795,061,062 | 889,798,770 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Non-current | |||||||
| At sight / Undetermined |
Due within 3 months |
Over 3 months and less than 1 vear |
Total | Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | Total | |
| Mortgage loans | 3.253.096 | 9.212.392 | 12.465.488 | 24.923.742 | 405.158.310 | 430.082.052 | 442.547.540 | |
| Auto Loans | 3.927.080 | 22.053.594 | 56.088.085 | 82.068.759 | 144.732.558 | 272.333.359 | 417.065.916 | 499,134,676 |
| Leasings | 449.968 | 603,012 | 1.661.023 | 2,714,002 | 3,732,439 | 2,239,937 | 5.972.376 | 8.686.378 |
| Overdrafts | 1,886,484 | 1.886.484 | 1.886.484 | |||||
| Other credits | 626,332 | 626,332 | 626,332 | |||||
| 6.889.864 | 25.909.702 | 66.961.500 | 99,761,066 | 173.388.739 | 679.731.606 | 853,120,344 | 952,881,410 |
The breakdown of this heading by type of rate is as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed rate | 427.176.016 | 455.440.226 |
| Floating rate | 462,622,754 | 497,441,184 |
| 889.798.770 | 952.881.410 | |
| Credit risk impairment | (3,978,200) | (5,718,180) |
| 885,820,571 947,163,230 |
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the analysis of this caption by type of collateral, is presented as follows:
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asset-backed Loans | 414 131 534 | 733.350 | 414.864.883 | (410.314) | 414.454.569 |
| Other quaranteed Loans | 463.692.443 | 1.651.366 | 465.343.809 | (1.938.840) | 463.404.969 |
| Unsecured Loans | 7.098.804 | 2.491.274 | 9.590.078 | (1.629.045) | 7.961.033 |
| 884.922.781 | 4.875.990 | (3.978.200) 885.820.570 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
| Asset-backed Loans | 450.807.867 | 836.620 | 451.644.487 | (577.101) | 451.067.386 |
| Other quaranteed Loans | 485,884,504 | 2.073.996 | 487.958.500 | (2.983.347) | 484,975,152 |
| Unsecured Loans | 10.407.925 | 2.870.498 | 13.278.423 | (2.157.731) | 11.120.692 |
| 947.100.296 | 5.781.114 | 952,881,410 | (5,718,180) | 947.163.230 |
The credit type analysis of the caption, as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 is detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
| Mortgage Loans | 405.168.238 | 563 | 405.168.801 | (94.675) | 405.074.126 |
| Auto Loans | 469,774,742 | 3,120,988 | 472.895.730 | (3.339.385) | 469,556,345 |
| Leasings | 8,977,360 | 445,221 | 9.422.580 | (99.647) | 9,322,933 |
| Overdrafts | 1,002,441 | 679,753 | 1,682,194 | (434.392) | 1,247,802 |
| Other credits | 629.465 | 629.465 | (10.101) | 619.364 | |
| 884,922,781 | 4,875,990 | 889,798,770 | (3,978,200) | 885,820,571 |


| 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
| Mortgage Loans | 442.547.540 | 442.547.540 | (144.621) | 442.402.918 | |
| Auto Loans | 495.207.596 | 3.927.080 | 499.134.676 | (4.992.208) | 494.142.468 |
| Leasings | 8.236.411 | 449.968 | 8.686.378 | (82.083) | 8.604.295 |
| Overdrafts | 1,108,749 | 777.735 | 1.886.484 | (492.029) | 1.394.455 |
| Other credits | 626.332 | 626.332 | (7.239) | 619,093 | |
| 947.100.296 | 5.781.114 | 952.881.410 | (5,718,180) | 947.163.230 |
The analysis of credit to bank clients as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, by sector of activity, is as follows:
31.12.2019
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies | |||||
| Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 1,111,340 | 8,581 | 1,119,921 | (19,854) | 1,100,067 |
| Mining and quarrying | 22,559 | 22,559 | (130) | 22.430 | |
| Manufacturing | 3,414,359 | 82,939 | 3,497,297 | (53,265) | 3,444,032 |
| Water supply | 192,904 | 5,712 | 198,615 | (5,806) | 192.809 |
| Construction | 8,289,160 | 198,054 | 8,487,214 | (46,230) | 8,440,985 |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 5,370,786 | 654,597 | 6,025,382 | (41,074) | 5,984,309 |
| Transport and storage | 1,459,131 | 27,086 | 1,486,217 | (35,098) | 1,451,119 |
| Accommodation and food service activities | 1,969,233 | 15,598 | 1,984,831 | (40,979) | 1,943,852 |
| Information and communication | 347.009 | 1.459 | 348,467 | (2,804) | 345.663 |
| Financial and insurance activities | 167,845 | 702 | 168,547 | (2,503) | 166,044 |
| Real estate activities | 1,788,935 | 10,730 | 1,799,665 | (12,427) | 1,787,238 |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | 1,107,319 | 7,105 | 1,114,424 | (12,141) | 1,102,283 |
| Administrative and support service activities | 1,611,610 | 289,475 | 1,901,084 | (19,749) | 1,881,336 |
| Education | 648,410 | 997 | 649.407 | (4,634) | 644.773 |
| Human health services and social work activities | 876,026 | 851 | 876,878 | (14,683) | 862,195 |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 478,756 | 2,074 | 480,830 | (9,266) | 471.564 |
| Other services | 14,038,952 | 34,985 | 14,073,937 | (106,888) | 13.967.049 |
| Individuals | |||||
| Mortgage Loans | 405.168.238 | 563 | 405,168,801 | (94,675) | 405.074.126 |
| Consumer Loans | 436.860.210 | 3,534,481 | 440.394.691 | (3,455,994) | 436.938.697 |
| 884,922,781 | 4.875.989 | 889,798,770 | (3,978,200) | 885,820,570 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Loans |
Overdue Loans | Gross amount | Impairment | Net amount | |
| Companies | |||||
| Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 1.075.328 | 9.584 | 1.084.911 | (17.542) | 1.067.369 |
| Mining and quarrying | 21.966 | 21.966 | (116) | 21.851 | |
| Manufacturing | 3,133,374 | 85.301 | 3,218,675 | (63,309) | 3,155,366 |
| Water supply | 180.589 | 5,712 | 186.301 | (5.801) | 180.500 |
| Construction | 7,466,936 | 315,308 | 7,782,244 | (80.592) | 7,701,652 |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 4.981.315 | 699.441 | 5.680.756 | (56.260) | 5.624.497 |
| Transport and storage | 1,381,735 | 19,426 | 1,401,162 | (52,296) | 1,348,865 |
| Accommodation and food service activities | 1.778.597 | 17.085 | 1.795.683 | (42,470) | 1.753.213 |
| Information and communication | 327,134 | 1.459 | 328,593 | (2,528) | 326.065 |
| Financial and insurance activities | 145.657 | 1,005 | 146,663 | (2,385) | 144,277 |
| Real estate activities | 1,650,626 | 15,545 | 1,666,171 | (7,273) | 1,658,898 |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | 1,018,700 | 6,769 | 1,025,469 | (18,755) | 1,006,713 |
| Administrative and support service activities | 1.509.490 | 289,634 | 1,799,124 | (19,555) | 1,779,569 |
| Education | 614,104 | 836 | 614,941 | (5,551) | 609,390 |
| Human health services and social work activities | 862,251 | 3,239 | 865,490 | (14,288) | 851,201 |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 457,435 | 5,788 | 463,224 | (6,935) | 456,289 |
| Other services | 17,929,922 | 62,742 | 17.992.664 | (194,727) | 17.797.937 |
| Individuals | |||||
| Mortgage Loans | 442.648.037 | 1,584 | 442.649.621 | (146,248) | 442,503,373 |
| Consumer Loans | 459,917,100 | 4,240,654 | 464,157,754 | (4,981,550) | 459,176,204 |
| 947.100.296 | 5.781.114 | 952.881.410 | (5.718.180) | 947.163.230 |
The total credit portfolio, split by stage according to IFRS 9, is analysed as follows:


| 2 market for a come of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the for | 22.05.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | 834.895.752 | 889.654.635 |
| Gross amount | 836.958.434 | 891.922.703 |
| Impairment | (2.062.682) | (2,268,068) |
| Stage 2 | 39.336.322 | 44.929.798 |
| Gross amount | 40.207.967 | 46.298.851 |
| Impairment | (871.645) | (1.369.052) |
| Stage 3 | 11.588.496 | 12.578.796 |
| Gross amount | 12.632.369 | 14.659.856 |
| Impairment | (1.043.873) | (2,081,060) |
| 885,820,571 | 947.163.230 |
The caption credit to bank clients includes the effect of traditional securitisation operations, through Special Purpose Entities (SPE) and subject to consolidation in accordance with IFRS 10.
The caption credit to bank clients includes the following amounts related to finance leases contracts:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount of future minimum payments | 9,632,194 | 8,842,582 |
| Interest not vet due | (654.835) | (606.172) |
| Present value | 8,977,360 | 8,236,411 |
The amount of future minimum payments of lease contracts, by maturity terms, is analysed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Due within 1 year | 2,532,976 | 2,281,673 |
| Due between 1 to 5 years | 5,835,429 | 5,405,074 |
| Over 5 years | 1,263,789 | 1,155,835 |
| Amount of future minimum payments | 9,632,194 | 8,842,582 |
The analysis of financial leases contracts, by type of client, is presented as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | 1,097,230 | 1,015,767 |
| Home | 95,072 | 91,596 |
| Consumer | ||
| Others | 1,002,158 | 924.171 |
| Companies | 7,880,129 | 7,220,643 |
| Equipment | 634.577 | 619.776 |
| Real Estate | 7,245,552 | 6,600,867 |
| 8,977,360 | 8,236,411 |
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movement in the Groupunder the Accumulated impairment losses caption (Note 13) was as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | PPA adjustments |
Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
Closing balance | |
| Non-current assets | ||||||||
| Credit to banking clients | 225.968 | 2.298.517 | (1.777.703) | (469.677) | 611.781 | (5.446.614) | 7.149.174 | 2.591.450 |
| 225,968 | 2.298.517 | (1.777.703) | (469.677) | 611.781 | (5.446.614) | 7.149.174 | 2.591.450 | |
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Credit to banking clients | 231.556 | 5.409.498 | (2.876.295) | (705.364) | (611.781) | (12.694.345) | 12.633.482 | 1.386.750 |
| 231.556 | 5.409.498 | (2.876.295) | (705.364) | (611.781) | (12.694.345) | 12.633.482 | 1.386.750 | |
| 457.525 | 7.708.015 | (4.653.998) | (1.175.041) | (18.140.959) | 19.782.656 | 3.978.200 |



| 31.03.2020 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Other adjustments |
Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
Closing balance | |
| Non-current assets | ||||||||
| Credit to banking clients | 2.591.450 | 1.191.584 | (184.440) | (7.588) | (17,022) | 126.445 | 3.700.428 | |
| 2.591.450 | 1.191.584 | (184.440) | (7.588) | (17.022) | 126.445 | 3.700.428 | ||
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Credit to banking clients | 1.386.750 | 649.741 | (100.571) | (4.138) | 17.022 | 68.947 | 2.017.752 | |
| 1,386,750 | 649.741 | (100.571) | (4.138) | 17,022 | 68.947 | - | 2.017.752 | |
| 3,978,200 | 1,841,325 | (285.011) | (11.726) | 195.393 | 5,718,180 |
Theimpairment losses of Credit to banking clients (increases net of reversals) in the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, amounting to 1,556,314 Euros (96,545 Euros at 31 March 2019) was recorded under the caption Impairment of accounts receivable, net.
Regarding the movements in impairment losses by stages, in the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, they are detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Total | ||||
| Opening balance | 184,341 | 67,195 | 205,989 | 457,525 | |||
| Change in period: | |||||||
| Increases due to origination and acquisition | 2,553,925 | 305,614 | 230,886 | 3,090,425 | |||
| Changes due to change in credit risk | (842,651) | 1,469,995 | (49,602) | 577,742 | |||
| Changes due to modifications without derecognition | |||||||
| Decrease due to derecognition repayments and disposals | (139,146) | (64,702) | (410,302) | (614,150) | |||
| Write-offs | (1,175,041) | (1,175,041) | |||||
| Changes due to update in the institution's methodology for estimation | |||||||
| Transfers to: | |||||||
| Stage 1 | 403,848 | (373,530) | (30,318) | ||||
| Stage 2 | (82,928) | 121,868 | (38,940) | - | |||
| Stage 3 | (14,707) | (717,728) | 732,435 | - | |||
| Foreign exchange and other | 62,932 | 1,578,765 | 1,641,697 | ||||
| lmpairment | 2.062.682 | 871,644 | 1.043.873 | 3,978,200 | |||
| Of which: POCI | (1,293,376) | (1,293,376) |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Total | |
| Opening balance | 2,062,682 | 871,644 | 1,043,873 | 3,978,200 |
| Change in period: | ||||
| Increases due to origination and acquisition | 307,082 | 22,830 | 4,041 | 333,952 |
| Changes due to change in credit risk | (305,027) | 947,724 | 793,167 | 1,435,863 |
| Changes due to modifications without derecognition | ||||
| Decrease due to derecognition repayments and disposals | (60,451) | (11,866) | (141,185) | (213,501) |
| Write-offs | (11,726) | (11,726) | ||
| Changes due to update in the institution's methodology for estimation | ||||
| Transfers to: | ||||
| Stage 1 | 310.078 | (296,015) | (14,064) | |
| Stage 2 | (102,509) | 194,652 | (92,143) | |
| Stage 3 | (4,692) | (382,073) | 386,766 | |
| Foreign exchange and other | 60,905 | 22,157 | 112,331 | 195,393 |
| lmpairment | 2,268,068 | 1,369,052 | 2,081,060 | 5,718,180 |
| Of which: POCI | (1,189,000) | (1,189,000) |
The reconciliation of accounting movements related to impairment losses is presented below:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Total | |
| Opening balance | 184.341 | 67,195 | 205,989 | 457,525 |
| Change in period: | ||||
| ECL income statement change for the period | 1,572,128 | 1,710,907 | (229.018) | 3,054,017 |
| Stage transfers (net) | 306,213 | (969,390) | 663.177 | 1 |
| Disposals | ||||
| Utilisations during the period | ||||
| Write-offs | 1 | (1,175,041) | (1,175,041) | |
| Write-off recoveries | ||||
| Foreign exchange and other | 62,932 | 1,578,765 | 1.641.697 | |
| lmpairment | 2,062,682 | 871,644 | 1,043,873 | 3,978,200 |

| 31.03.2020 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Total | |
| Opening balance | 2.062.682 | 871,644 | 1.043.873 | 3.978.200 |
| Change in period: | ||||
| ECL income statement change for the period | (58.396) | 958,688 | 656,022 | 1,556,314 |
| Stage transfers (net) | 202.877 | (483,437) | 280,559 | |
| Disposals | ||||
| Utilisations during the period | ||||
| Write-offs | (11.726) | (11,726) | ||
| Write-off recoveries | ||||
| Foreign exchange and other | 60,905 | 22,157 | 112,331 | 195,393 |
| Impairment | 2.268.068 | 1.369.052 | 2.081.060 | 5.718.180 |
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Deferrals included in current assets and current and non-current liabilities of the Group showed the following composition:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Assets deferrals | ||
| Current | ||
| Rents payable | 1,391,768 | 1,534,345 |
| Meal allowances | 1,486,218 | 1,475,101 |
| Other | 4.427.275 | 6,636,789 |
| 7,305,261 | 9,646,235 | |
| Liabilities deferrals | ||
| Non-current | ||
| Investment subsidy | 294,490 | 291.690 |
| 294,490 | 291,690 | |
| Current | ||
| Investment subsidy | 11,201 | 11,201 |
| Contratual liabilities | 1,533,212 | 1,427,407 |
| Other | 1,910,064 | 1,798,137 |
| 3.454.477 | 3,236,745 | |
| 3.748.967 | 3,528,435 |
The caption "Contractual liabilities" results from the application of IFRS 1.5 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers and stands for the amount already invoiced but not yet recognised as revenue because the performance obligations have not yet been met as recommended by the standard.
The "Contractual liabilities" recognised by the Group essentially refer to values related to stamps and postage of priority mail in the amount of 934,354 euros (1,028,940 euros on 31 December 2019), whose revenue is expected to be recognised in January 2020 (estimate of 80% of the item's value) and the remaining during 2020, and to objects invoiced and not delivered on 31 March 2020 in the express segment, in the amount of 493,052 euros (504,272 euros as of 31 December 2019), whose revenue is recognised upon delivery in the following month.
The revenue recognised by the Group in the period, included in the balance of Contractual liabilities at the beginning of the period amounted to 710,473 Euros.
No "Assets resulting from contracts" associated with the application of IFRS 15 – Revenue from contracts with customers were recognised.

As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, cash and cash equivalents correspond to the value of cash, sight deposits, term deposits and cash investments on the monetary market, net of bank overdrafts and equivalentshort-termbank financing, and is detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 59.266.424 | 49.486.227 |
| Slight deposits | 182.192.757 | 45,086,522 |
| Demand deposits at Bank of Portugal | 29,497,627 | 93.558.709 |
| Deposits in other credit institutions | 107,376,274 | 25,790,727 |
| Term deposits | 64.662.643 | 85,053,868 |
| Cash and cash equivalents (Balance sheet) | 442.995.724 | 298.976.052 |
| Sight deposits at Bank of Portugal | (25.924.034) | (89,431,857) |
| Outstandinq checks / Checks clearing | (2.226.045) | (2,952,961) |
| Impairment of slight and term deposits | 19.924 | 20,822 |
| Cash and cash equivalents (Cash flow statement) | 414,865,569 | 206,612,056 |
The heading Sight deposits at Bank of Portugal includes mandatory deposits in order to meet the legal requirements to maintain a minimum cash reserve in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) No. 1358 / 2011 of European Central Bank of 14 December 2011, which states that the minimum cash requirements kept as demand deposits at Bank of Portugal amounts to 1% of deposits and other liabilities.
In the scope of IFRS 9 – Financial instruments the Group has begun to recognised impairment on sight and term deposits as well as on investments in credit institutions. Therefore, in the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movement recorded under the caption "Impairment of sight and term deposits" (Note 13) related to the Group is detail as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Closing balance | |
| Sight and term deposits | 21.295 | 5.351 (6,723) 1 |
19,924 | ||
| 21,295 | 5,351 | (6,723) | 1 | 19,924 | |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Closing balance | |
| Sight and term deposits | 19.924 | 6.949 | (6.051) | 1 | 20,822 |
| 19,924 | 6,949 | (6,051) | - | 20,822 |
The impairment losses (increases net of reversals) of sight and term deposits in the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, amounting to 899 Euros ((8,215) Euros at 31 March 2019) was recorded under the heading Impairment of accounts receivable, net.
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the following movements occurred in the Group's impairment losses:


| 31.12.2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Changes in the perimeter |
consolidation PPA adjustments | Closing balance | |
| Non-current assets | ||||||||
| Tangible fixed assets | 24.256 | (83) | 24.173 | |||||
| Investment properties | 1,243,502 | (494,358) | 749,144 | |||||
| 1,267,758 | 1 | (494,442) | 1 | 773,316 | ||||
| Debt securities | 164,883 | 31,531 | (83,821) | (299) | 57,147 | 169,441 | ||
| Other non-current assets | 1,982,890 | 116,906 | 2.099.796 | |||||
| Credit to banking clients | 225,968 | 2,298,517 | (1,777,703) | (469,674) | 611,781 | 7,149,174 | (5,446,614) | 2,591,449 |
| Other banking financial assets | 217,751 | 91,523 | (244,428) | 101,403 | 166,249 | |||
| 2,591,492 | 2,421,571 | (2,105,952) | (469,973) | 887,237 | 7,149,174 | (5,446,614) | 5,026,935 | |
| 3,859,250 | 2,421,571 | (2,600,394) | (469,973) | 887,237 | 7,149,174 | (5,446,614) | 5,800,251 | |
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Accounts receivable | 33,436,621 | 7,204,092 | (766,236) | (1,892,645) | 37,981,832 | |||
| Credit to banking clients | 231,556 | 5,409,498 | (2,876,295) | (705,365) | (611,781) | 12,633,482 | (12.694.345) | 1,386,750 |
| Debt securities | 145,733 | 2,678 | (370) | (86,758) | (57,147) | 4,136 | ||
| Other current assets | 7,516,988 | 1,585,794 | (100,275) | (554,795) | (105,979) | 8,341,734 | ||
| Other banking financial assets | 207,945 | 249,671 | (126,763) | (112,330) | 4.011.236 | 4,229,759 | ||
| Slight and term deposits | 21,295 | 5,352 | (6,723) | 19,923 | ||||
| 41,560,139 | 14,457,085 | (3,876,662) | (3,239,562) | (887,237) | 16,644,718 | (12.694,345) | 51,964,134 | |
| Non-current assets held for sale | 9 | (3.059) | 187,659 | 184,609 | ||||
| - | 9 | (3.059) | - | 187,659 | 184,609 | |||
| Merchandise | 1,824,111 | 313,018 | (1,129) | (19,695) | 2,116,305 | |||
| Raw, subsidiary and consumable | 633,526 | 91,662 | 725,188 | |||||
| 2,457,637 | 404,680 | (1,129) | (19.695) | - | 1 | - | 2,841,493 | |
| 44.017.776 | 14.861.773 | (3,880,850) | (3,259,257) | (887,237) | 16,832,377 | (12,694,345) | 54,990,236 | |
| 47,877,025 | 17,283,344 | (6,481,244) | (3,729,231) | - | 23,981,551 | (18,140,959) | 60,790,487 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Changes in the consolidation Other movements perimeter |
Closing balance | ||
| Non-current assets | ||||||||
| Tangible fixed assets | 24,173 | - | - | 24,173 | ||||
| Investment properties | 749,144 | 749,144 | ||||||
| 773,317 | - | - | 773,317 | |||||
| Debt securities | 169,441 | 15,173 | (5,351) | (1,134) | 178,130 | |||
| Other non-current assets | 2,099,796 | 64.702 | 2,164,498 | |||||
| Credit to banking clients | 2,591,449 | 1,191,584 | (184,440) | (7,588) | (17,022) | 126,445 | 3,700,428 | |
| Other banking financial assets | 166.249 | 1.293 | (19.029) | 413 | 148.926 | |||
| 5,026,936 | 1,208,049 | (208,820) | (7,588) | 46,959 | 126.445 | 6,191,981 | ||
| 5,800,253 | 1,208,049 | (208,820) | (7,588) | 46,959 | - | 126,445 | 6,965,298 | |
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Accounts receivable | 37,981,832 | 1,352,198 | (465,114) | (440,610) | 38,428,306 | |||
| Credit to banking clients | 1,386,750 | 649,741 | (100,571) | (4.138) | 17,022 | 68.947 | 2,017,752 | |
| Debt securities | 4,136 | 297 | (168) | 1,134 | 5,399 | |||
| Other current assets | 8,341,734 | 335,729 | (21,547) | (9.061) | 490.252 | 9,137,107 | ||
| Other banking financial assets | 4,229,759 | 5,363 | (933,792) | (413) | 3,300,917 | |||
| Slight and term deposits | 19,923 | 6,949 | (6,051) | 20,822 | ||||
| 51,964,135 | 2,350,276 | (1,527,243) | (453,809) | 507,995 | - | 68,947 | 52,910,301 | |
| Non-current assets held for sale | 184.609 | 1.536 | 186,145 | |||||
| 184,609 | 1,536 | - | - | - | - | - | 186,145 | |
| Merchandise | 2,116,305 | 190,593 | (104,706) | 2,202,193 | ||||
| Raw, subsidiary and consumable | 725,188 | 3,855 | (2,255) | 726,788 | ||||
| 2,841,493 | 194,448 | (106,961) | - | - | 2,928,981 | |||
| 54,990,237 | 2,546,260 | (1,527,243) | (560.769) | 507,995 | 68,947 | 56,025,427 | ||
| 60.790.490 | 3.754.309 | (1.736.063) | (568.357) | 554,954 | - | 195.392 | 62.990.725 |
As at 31 March 2020, the Company share capital was composed of 150,000,000 shares with the nominal value of 0.50 Euros each. The share capital is fully underwritten and paid-up.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020 the Company's shareholders with greater than or equal to 2% shareholdings, according to the information reported, are as follows:

| 31.12.2019 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shareholder | No. of shares | 0% | Nominal value | |
| Manuel Champalimaud, SGPS, S.A. (1) | 19.271.134 | 12.847% | 9.635.567 | |
| Manuel Carlos de Melo Champalimaud | 353,185 | 0.235% | 176,593 | |
| Manuel Carlos de Melo Champalimaud (1) | Total | 19,624,319 | 13.083% | 9.812.160 |
| GreenWood Builders Fund I, LP (2/ | 8,759,082 | 5.839% | 4,379,541 | |
| GreenWood Investors LLC(2) | Total | 8.759.082 | 5.839% | 4,379,541 |
| Global Portfolio Investments, S.L. (3) | 8.492.745 | 5.662% | 4.246.373 | |
| Indumenta Pueri, S.L. (3) | Total | 8,492,745 | 5.662% | 4,246,373 |
| Norges Bank | Total | 5,834,490 | 3.890% | 2.917.245 |
| BlackRock, Inc. 4) | Total | 4.496.864 | 2.998% | 2,248,432 |
| BBVA Asset Management, SA SGIIC (5) | Total | 3,495,499 | 2.330% | 1,747,750 |
| Wellington Management Group LLP(6) | Total | 3.321.219 | 2.214% | 1,660,610 |
| BPI Gestão de Activos (7) | Total | 3,044,307 | 2.030% | 1,522,154 |
| CTT, S.A. (own shares) (8) | Total | 1 | 0.000% | 1 |
| Other shareholders | Total | 92.931.474 | 61.954% | 46.465.737 |
| Total | 150,000,000 | 100.000% | 75,000,000 |

| 31.03.2020 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shareholder | No. of shares | 0/0 | Nominal value | |
| Manuel Champalimaud, SGPS, S.A. (1) | 19.330.084 | 12.887% | 9.665.042 | |
| Manuel Carlos de Melo Champalimaud | 353.185 | 0.235% | 176,593 | |
| Manuel Carlos de Melo Champalimaud (1) | Total | 19.683.269 | 13.122% | 9.841.635 |
| GreenWood Builders Fund I, LP (2) | 8,814,082 | 5.876% | 4,407,041 | |
| GreenWood Investors LLC(2) | Total | 8.814.082 | 5.876% | 4.407.041 |
| Global Portfolio Investments, S.L. (3) | 8,492,745 | 5.662% | 4,246,373 | |
| Indumenta Pueri, S.L. (3) | Total | 8.492.745 | 5.662% | 4.246.373 |
| Norges Bank | Total | 6,010,417 | 4.007% | 3,005,209 |
| BlackRock, Inc. (4) | Total | 4.496.864 | 2.998% | 2,248,432 |
| BBVA Asset Management, SA SGIIC (5) | Total | 3.495.499 | 2.330% | 1,747,750 |
| BPI Gestão de Activos (6) | Total | 3,044,307 | 2.030% | 1,522,154 |
| CTT, S.A. (own shares) (7) | Total | 1 | 0.000% | 1 |
| Other shareholders | Total | 95.962.816 | 63.975% | 47.981.408 |
| Total | 150.000.000 | 100.000% | 75,000,000 |
The commercial legislation regarding own shares requires that a non-distributable reserve must be created for the same amount of the acquisition price of such shares. This reserve is not available for distribution while the shares stay in the Company's possession. In addition, the applicable accounting standards determine that the gains or losses obtained with the sale of such shares are recognised in reserves.
As at 31 March 2020, CTT held 1 own share, with a nominal value of 0.50€, being all the inherent rights suspended pursuant to article 324 of the Portuguese Companies Code.


Own shares held by CTT are within the limits established by the Company and by the Portuguese Companies Code. These shares are recorded at acquisition cost.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group's and Company's heading Reserves showed the following composition:
| 31.12.2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal reserves | Own shares reserves | Fair Value reserves |
Other reserves | Total | |
| Opening balance | 15.000.000 | 8 | 270 | 50.836.597 | 65,836,875 |
| Assets fair value | - | 15,720 | 15,720 | ||
| Closing balance | 15,000,000 | 8 | 15,990 | 50,836,597 | 65,852,595 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
| Legal reserves | Own shares reserves | Fair Value reserves |
Other reserves | Total | |
| Opening balance | 15,000.000 | 8 | 15,990 | 50.836.597 | 65,852,595 |
| Assets fair value | - | (34,501) | (34,501) | ||
| Closing balance | 15,000,000 | 8 | (18,510) | 50,836,597 | 65,818,095 |
The commerciallegislation establishes that at least 5% of the annual net profit must be allocated to reinforce the legal reserve, untilit represents at least 20% of the share capital. This reserve is not distributable except in the event of the Company but may be used to absorb losses after all the other reserves have been depleted or incorporated in the share capital.
As at 31 March 2020, this caption includes the amount of 8 Euros related to the creation of an unavailable reserve for the same amount of the acquisition price of the own shares held.
This heading records the profits transferred to reserves that are not imposed by the law or articles of association, nor constituted pursuant to contracts signed by the Company.
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the following movements were made in the Group heading Retained earnings:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 |
|---|---|
| 10,867.301 | |
| 21.499.271 | 29.196.933 |
| (15.000.000) | |
| (10.954) | (1.549) |
| (46.047) | |
| 10,867,301 | 40,016,638 |
| 4,378,984 |
The actuarial gains/losses associated to post-employment benefits, as well as the corresponding deferred taxes, are recognised in this heading.
Thus, for the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movements occurred in this heading, in the Group, were as follows:



| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Openinq balance | (30.993.430) | (49.744.144) |
| Actuarial qains/losses | (25.769.253) | |
| Tax effect (Note 25) | 7.018.539 | |
| Closing balance | (49.744.144) | (49.744.144) |
According to the dividend distribution proposal included in the 2018 Annual Report, at the General Meeting of Shareholders, which was held on 23 April 2019, a dividend distribution of 15,000,000 Euros, corresponding to a dividend per share of 0.10 Euros, regarding the financial year ended 31 December 2018 was proposed and approved. The dividend amount assigned to own shares was transferred to Retained earnings, totalling 0.10 Euros.
At the General Meeting of Shareholders, which was held on 29 April 2020, was proposed and approved, the non-distribution of dividends regarding the year ended 31 December 2019. The net income in the amount of 29,196,933 Euros was transferred to retained earnings.
During the periods ended 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020, the earnings per share were calculated as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Net income for the period | 3,698,154 | 3,681,542 |
| Average number of ordinary shares | 149,999,999 | 149.999.999 |
| Earnings per share | ||
| Basic | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Diluted | 0.02 | 0.02 |
The average number of shares is detailed as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Shares issued at begining of the period | 150.000.000 | 150.000.000 |
| Own shares effect | 1 | |
| Average number of shares during the period | 149,999,999 | 149,999,999 |
The basic earnings per share are calculated dividing the net profit attributable to equity holders of the parent company by the average ordinary shares, excluding the average number of own shares held by the Group.
As at 31 March 2020, the number of own shares held is 1 and its average number for the year ended 31 March 2020 is also 1, reflecting the fact that no acquisitions or sales/attribution have occurred in the given period.
There are no dilutive factors of earnings per share.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, Debt of the Group showed the following composition:

| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-current liabilities | ||
| Bank loans | 81,702,538 | 81,933,277 |
| Lease liabilities | 66,895,396 | 64.093.845 |
| 148,597,934 | 146,027,123 | |
| Current liabilities | ||
| Bank loans | 9.749.470 | 9.743.479 |
| Lease liabilities | 17.064.097 | 18.731.809 |
| 26,813,567 | 28,475,288 | |
| 175.411.501 | 174,502,411 |
As at 31 March 2020, the interest rates applied to bans were between 1.25% and 1.875% (31 December 2019: 1.25% and 1.875%).
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the details of the Group bank loans were as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limit | Amount used | Limit | Amount used | |||
| Current | Non-current | Current | Non-current | |||
| Bank loans | ||||||
| Millennium BCP | 11.250.000 | 9.749.470 | 11.250.000 | 9.743.479 | ||
| BBVA / Bankinter | 75.000.000 | 46.891.381 | 75.000.000 | 47,102,485 | ||
| Novo Banco | 35.000.000 | 34,811,157 | 35,000,000 | 34,830,793 | ||
| BIM - (Mozambique) | 44.870 | 40.928 | ||||
| 121,294,870 | 9,749,470 | 81,702,538 | 121,290,928 | 9,743,479 | 81,933,277 |
On 27 September 2017, a financing contract between CTT and BBVA and Bankinter was signed, for an initial period of 5 years and for a total amount of 90 million Euros, with the possibility of using the funds until September 2018. As no amount was used until the mentioned date, the contract was renegotiated on 27 September 2018, having the total amount been altered to 75 million Euros, while maintaining the one-year term for the use of the funds. Regarding 31 December 2018, the amount of 25 million Euros was used, presented in the balance sheet net of commission in the amount of 24,276,250 Euros. As at 31 March 2020 the referred amount corresponded to 47,102,485 Euros. By a company decision, the remaining available amount will not be used.
On April 22, 2019, a simple credit agreement was signed between CTT and Novo Banco for a period of 60 months, with a grace period of two years, and may be extended for a period of 24 months, for a total amount of 35 million Euros. Regarding 31 March 2020, the 35 million Euros were used and are presented in the balance sheet net of commission in the amount of 34,830,793 Euros.
Bank loans obtained are subject to compliance with financial covenants, namely clauses of Cross default, Negative Pledge and Assets Disposal's limits. Additionally, the loans obtained also require compliance with rations of Net Debt over EBITDA and financial autonomy. Compliance with financial covenants is regularly monitored by the Group and is measured by counterparties on an annual basis based on the Financial Statements as at 31 December.
The Group presents lease liabilities which future payments, undiscounted amounts presented in the financial position, are detailed as follows:



| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Due within 1 year | 20.168.630 | 22.222.461 |
| Due between 1 to 5 years | 63.131.546 | 62.111.084 |
| Over 5 years | 14,737,518 | 12,020,511 |
| Total undiscounted lease liabilities | 98.037.694 | 96.354.057 |
| Current | 17.064.097 | 18.731.809 |
| Non-current | 66,895,396 | 64.093.845 |
| Lease liabilities included in the statement of financial position | 83.959.493 | 82.825.655 |
The amounts recognised in the income statement are detailed as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Lease liabilities interests (note 24) | 956.648 | 822.982 |
| Variable payments not included in the measurament of the lease liability | 591.038 | 952.651 |
The amounts recognised in the Cash flow statement are as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total of lease payments | (6,022,454) | (6,356,790) |
The movement in the rights of use underlying these lease liabilities can be analysed in note 4.
For the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March face legal proceedings and other liabilities arising from past events, the Group recognised provisions, which showed the following movement:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | Utilisations | Transfers | Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
PPA adjustments | Closing balance | |
| Non-current provisions | ||||||||
| Litigations | 3,149,620 | 1,975,191 | (1.652.175) | (691,483) | 67,824 | 2,848,977 | ||
| Restructuring | 1,842,159 | 100,826 | (863,627) | (39,610) | 1.039.748 | |||
| Other provisions | 9.021,484 | 210,045 | (675,510) | (2,942) | (67,824) | 1,499,282 | 397,421 | 10,381,956 |
| Sub-total - caption "Provisions (increases) / reversals' | 14,013,263 | 2,286,062 | (3,191,312) | (734,035) | - | 1,499,282 | 397,421 | 14,270,681 |
| Restructuring | 1,026,902 | 7,504,481 | (7,852,242) | 679,141 | ||||
| Other provisions | 979.174 | 1,826,549 | (120,167) | 2,685,556 | ||||
| 16,019,339 | 11,617,093 | (3,191,312) | (8,706,444) | 1 | 1,499,282 | 397,421 | 17,635,379 | |
| Opening balance | Increases | Reversals | 31.03.2020 Utilisations |
Transfers | Changes in the consolidation perimeter |
Closing balance | ||
| Non-current provisions | ||||||||
| Litiqations | 2.848.976 | 194.536 | (98.468) | (119.051) | 13,941 | 2,839,934 | ||
| Restructuring | 1,039,749 | 1,039,749 | ||||||
| Other provisions | 10,381,956 | 946,252 | (38,619) | (1,264) | (568,895) | - | 10,719,430 | |
| Sub-total - caption "Provisions (increases)/reversals" | 14,270,681 | 1,140,788 | (137,087) | (120,315) | (554,954) | - | 14,599,113 | |
| Restructuring | 679,141 | 24.728 | (663.075) | 40,794 | ||||
| Other provisions | 2.685.556 | (3.542) | 2.682.014 | |||||
| 17,635,378 | 1.165.516 | (137.087) | (786.932) | (554.954) | - | 17,321,921 |
The net amount between increases and reversals of provisions was recorded tedin come statement under the caption Provisions, net and amounted to 146,799 Euros as at 31 March 2019 and (1,003,701) Euros as at 31 March 2020.


The provisions for litigations were set up to face the liabilities resulting from lawsuits brought against the Group and are estimated based on information from their lawyers as well as on the mentioned lawsuits. The final amount and the timing of the outflows regarding the provision for litigations depend on the respective proceedings.
The reversal of the provision for litigations, in the amount of 1,652,175 Euros as at 31 December 2019 and 368,282 Euros as at 31 March 2020, essentially results from lawsuits whose decision, which was made known in the course of 2019 or 2020, respectively, proved to be favourable to the Group, or, not being favourable, resulted in the condemnation to pay amounts that proved to be lower than the estimated amounts (and reflected in this provision item).
On 19 December 2017, CTT approved an Operational Transformation Plan, which emphasises the purposes of optimising the retail network and reinforcing the HR optimisation programme. Following the maintenance, in 2018 and 2019, on the HR optimisation programme, the provision created for this purpose amounted to 40,794 Euros as at 31 March 2020, in the Group and has been recorded against the caption Staff costs in the income statement. It is expected that this provision will be substantially used in 2020.
The utilisations recorded in the same period regard mainly the payment of indemnities foreseen when the provision was booked as well as the costs incurred with the closing of post offices.
Also, within the scope of the Operation Plan, in the area of optimisation of the delivery network and mail processing operations, the Group, in the period ended 31 December 2018, created a provision for restructuring in the amount of 1,397,647 Euros which was recognised under "Provisions (increases) / reversals" in the income statement by nature. As at 31 December 2019 following an update/revision of the underlying criteria, the provision, in the Group, amounted to 1,039,748 Euros. As at 31 March 2020 the value has not been changed.
As at 31 March 2020 the provision, in the Group to cover any contingencies relating to labour litigation proceedings not includedin the current court proceedings related to remuneration differences and attendance bonuses that can be claimed by workers, amounts to 6,840,664 Euros (6,891,248 Euros as at 31 December de 2019). The amount of the provision corresponds to the Group's best estimate for the outflow, and it is not possible to estimate the expected moment for the outflow as it depends on the moment when proceedings are initiated by the Group's employees.
As at 31 March 2020, a provision is recognised in CTT Expresso branch in Spain to face the notification issued by the Spanish National Commission on Markets and Competition, which has now been the Spanish Audiencia Nacional (National High Court). The amount provisioned, of 1,400,000 Euros, is the evaluation carried out by its legal advisors and the Group is awaiting the outcome of the process.
The amount provisioned in 321 Crédito, S.A. amounting to 2,075,510 Euros as at 31 March 2020 (1,499,282 Euros at the acquisition date) is essentially the result of the risk assessment associated with tax contingencies.
As at 31 March 2020, in addition to the previously mentioned situations, this heading also includes in the Group:


As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Grouphad provided bank guarantees to third parties as follows:
| Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority) 8,211,715 8,211,715 Contencioso Administrativo da Audiência Nacional (National Audience Administrative Litigation) and CNMC - Comission Nacional de los Mercados y la 3,148,845 3,148,845 Competencia - Espanha (National Commission on Markets and Competition - Spain) 2,033,582 PLANINOVA - Soc. Imobiliária, S.A. (Real estate company) 2,033,582 LandSearch, Compra e Venda de Imóveis (Real estate company) 1,792,886 1,792,886 381,553 O Feliz - Imobiliaria (Real estate company) 381,553 288,384 288,384 EUROGOLD (Real estate company) Courts 281,830 281,830 TIP - Transportes Intermodais do Porto, ACE (Oporto intermodal transport) 150,000 150,000 Municipalities 118,658 118,658 INCM - Imprensa Nacional da Casa da Moeda (Portuguese Mint and Official Printing 85,056 85,056 |
|---|
| Solred (Repsol's fuel cards) 80,000 80,000 |
| EPAL - Empresa Portuguesa de Aquas Livres (Multi-municipal System of Water Suj 68,895 68,895 |
| Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa, EM, SA (Portuguese Railway company) 55,000 55,000 |
| ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal (Airports of Portugal) 34,000 34,000 |
| EMEL, S.A. (Municipal company managing parking in Lisbon) 26,984 26,984 |
| Aguas do Norte (Water Supply of the Northern Region) 23,804 23,804 |
| Serviços Intermunicipalizados Loures e Odivelas (Inter-municipal Services of Wate 17,000 17,000 |
| Direção Geral do Tesouro e Finanças (Directorate General of Treasury and Finance) 16,867 16,867 |
| Portugal Telecom, S.A. (Telecommunication Company) 16,658 16,658 |
| Refer (Public service for the management of the national railway network infrastru 16,460 16,460 |
| Instituto de Gestão Financeira Segurança Social (Social Security Financial Manager 21,557 16,406 |
| Other entities 16,144 16,144 |
| SMAS de Sintra (Services of Water Supply and Sanitation of the city of Sintra) 15,889 15,889 |
| Repsol (Oil and Gas Company) 15,000 15,000 |
| Administração Regional de Saúde - Lisboa e Vale do Tejo ( Regional Health Authorit 13,000 13,000 |
| Lagos em Forma - Gestão desportiva, E.M., S.A. (Municipal company managing spor 11,000 11,000 |
| Aquas do Porto, E.M (Services of Water Supply and Sanitation of the city of Porto) 10,720 10,720 |
| ADRA - Aguas da Região de Aveiro (Services of Water Supply and Sanitation of the 10,475 10,475 |
| SMAS Torres Vedras (Services of Water Supply and Sanitation of the city of Torres 9,910 9,910 |
| Promodois (Real estate company) 6,273 6,273 |
| Instituto de Segurança Social (Social Security Institute) 5,151 |
| Consejeria Salud ( Local Health Service / Spain) 4,116 4,116 |
| Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (Employment and Professional Traini 3,718 3,719 |
| EMARP – Empresa de Aguas e Resíduos de Portimão (Services of Water Supply and 3,100 3,100 |
| IFADAP (National Support Institute for Farming and Fishing) 1.746 1.746 466 466 |
| ADAM - Aguas do Alto Minho (Services of Water Supply and Sanitation of theRegion 16,991,292 16.991.290 |
According to the terms of some lease contracts of the buildings occupied by the Company's services, at the moment that the Portuguese State ceased to hold the majority of the share capital of CTT, bank guarantees on first demand had to be provided. These guarantees amount to 3,826,468 Euros as at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, in the Group.
The amounts relating to the Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority ("Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira") arise essentially from tax enforcement proceedings arising from the inspection process regarding VAT of fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
Following the risk assessment carried out by its legal advisors, the Group provided bank guarantees under the opposition presented in the arbitral tribunal, considering these proceedings as contingent liabilities.


CTT Expresso branch in Spain provided a bank guaranty to the Sixth Section of the National Audience Administrative Litigation and to the Spanish National Commission on Markets and Competition ("Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia") in the amount of 3,148,845 Euros, while the appeal presented by CTT Expresso branch in Spain in the National Audience in Spain proceeds.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group subscribed promissory notes amounting to approximately 43.7 thousand Euros and 40.9 thousand Euros, respectively, for various credit institutions intended to secure complete and timely compliance with the corresponding financing contracts.
The Groupalso assumed financial commitments (comfort letters) in the amount of 1,170,769 Euros regarding the branch of CTT Expresso in Spain which are still active as at 31 March 2020.
In addition, the Group also assumed commitments relating to real estater ents under lease contracts and rents for other leases.
The Group contractual commitments related to Tangible assets are detailed respectively in Notes 4 and 5.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group's heading Accounts payable showed the following composition:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Current | ||
| Advances from customers | 2.824.160 | 2,851,717 |
| CNP money orders | 87.890.044 | 50.625.602 |
| Suppliers | 76.261.148 | 74.654.046 |
| Invoices pending confirmation | 10,560,107 | 11,699,729 |
| Fixed assets suppliers | 14.189.288 | 7.241.603 |
| Invoices pending confirmation (fixed assets) | 9.543.900 | 6,562,976 |
| Values collected on behalf of third parties | 8.495.311 | 6,041,985 |
| Postal financial services | 153,139,714 | 58,586,532 |
| Advances regarding disposals | 14.108 | 14,542 |
| Other accounts payable | 10,872,886 | 17.169.137 |
| 373,790,665 | 235.447.868 | |
| 373,790,665 | 235.447.868 |
The value of CNP money orders refers to the money orders received from the National Pensions Center (CNP), whose payment date to the corresponding pensioners will occur in the month after the financial year. The decrease observed results from the variation of the issuance dates of the money orders defined by Social Security (CNP) and the respective advance rule agreed between the two entities.
This heading records mainly the amounts collected related to taxes, insurance, savings certificates and other money orders, whose settlement date should occur in the month following the end of the decrease seen is mainly due to the significant reduction observed in the subscription of savings certificates.


As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the composition of the heading Banking clients' deposits and other loans in the Group is as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sight deposits | 961,771,839 | 1,007,382,534 |
| Term deposits | 169,581,292 | 182,678,924 |
| Savings deposits | 152.214.134 | 192.767.447 |
| Banking clients' deposits | 1,283,567,265 1,382,828,905 | |
| Other credit institutions' deposits | 37.850.777 | |
| Other credit institutions' deposits | 37,850,777 | |
| 1,321,418,042 1,382,828,905 |
The above-mentioned amounts relate to Banco CTT clients' deposits are deposits are deposits associated with current accounts and which allow the client to obtain a remuneration above the slight deposits, which can be mobilised at any time, with no subscription limit, and it is possible to schedule transfers from and for this account. These deposits are different from term deposits as they have a definite date of constitution and maturity, and the savings accounts are fully mobilizable without penalty on remuneration.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the residual maturity of banking client deposits and other loans, is detailed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No defined maturity |
Due within 3 months |
Over 3 months and less than 1 vear |
Over 1 year and less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | |
| Sight deposits and saving accounts | 1,113,985,973 | 1,113,985,973 | ||||
| Term deposits | 53.164.869 | 116,416,423 | 169,581,292 | |||
| Banking clients' deposits | 1,113,985,973 | 53.164.869 | 116.416.423 | - 1.283.567.265 | ||
| Other credit institutions' deposits | 37.850.777 | 37.850.77 | ||||
| Other credit institutions' deposits | • | 37,850,777 | 1 | 37,850,777 | ||
| 1,113,985,973 | 53,164,869 | 116,416,423 | - 1,321,418,042 |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No defined maturitv |
Due within 3 months |
Over 3 months | Over 1 vear and and less than 1 less than 3 years |
Over 3 years | Total | |
| Sight deposits and saving accounts | 1.200.149.981 | 1.200.149.981 | ||||
| Term deposits | 96.896.178 | 85.782.746 | 182,678,924 | |||
| Banking clients' deposits | 1.200.149.981 | 96.896.178 | 85,782,746 | 1 | - 1,382,828,905 | |
| Other credit institutions' deposits | ||||||
| Other credit institutions' deposits | 1 | |||||
| 1.200.149.981 | 96.896.178 | 85.782.746 | l | - 1.382.828.905 |
The caption Other credit institutions' deposits refer to sales transactions with a repurchase agreement by credit institutions abroad
As at 31 March 2020 the caption reflects the estimated incometax regarding 2019, which has not yet been paid, as the estimated income tax regarding the three-month period ended 31 March 2020.


During the periods ended 31 March 2020, the composition of the Group heading Staff Costs was as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Remuneration | 67,508,804 | 69,294,726 |
| Employee benefits | 54.245 | 1.044.698 |
| Indemnities | 4.061.211 | 237,497 |
| Social Security charges | 15,137,576 | 15,162,563 |
| Occupational accident and health insurance | 1.081.087 | 1.087.970 |
| Social welfare costs | 2.028.135 | 1.482.983 |
| Other staff costs | 65.697 | 8.483 |
| 89,936,755 | 88.318.919 |
The change in the "Remuneration" caption arises essentially from fact that on 31 March 2020 the contribution of 321. Crédito, SA was already being considered, an acquisition that only took place in May 2019, thus not affecting the values on 31 March 2019.
As at 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020, the fixed and variable remunerations attributed to the statutory bodies of CTT, SA, were as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Directors | Audit Comittee | Board | Remuneration General Meeting of Shareholders |
Total | |
| Short-term remuneration | |||||
| Fixed remuneration | 771,628 | 55,714 | 13,950 | 841,292 | |
| Annual variable remuneration | 128.938 | 128,938 | |||
| 900,566 | 55.714 | 13,950 | 1 | 970,230 | |
| Long-term remuneration | |||||
| Defined contribution plan RSP | 55,750 | 55,750 | |||
| Long-term variable remuneration | 12,720 | 12,720 | |||
| 68.470 | 1 | - | 68,470 | ||
| 969,036 | 55,714 | 13,950 | 1 | 1,038,700 |
| 31.03.2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Directors | Audit Comittee | Board | Remuneration General Meeting of Shareholders |
Total | |
| Short-term remuneration | |||||
| Fixed remuneration | 631.114 | 47,357 | 13,950 | 692,421 | |
| Annual variable remuneration | |||||
| 631,114 | 47,357 | 13,950 | 1 | 692,421 | |
| Long-term remuneration | |||||
| Defined contribution plan RSP | 45.887 | 45,887 | |||
| Long-term variable remuneration | |||||
| 45.887 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 45.887 | |
| 677,001 | 47,357 | 13,950 | 738,308 |
For the year ended 31 December 2019, the amount of 801,968 Euros was recognised as Annual Variable Compensation for the members of the Statutory Bodies which was determined by the Remuneration Committee supported on a study carried out by an independent entity. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and by resolution of the Annual General Meeting, the nonpayment of profit-sharing bonuses was approved, and the annual variable remuneration was suspended.
The changeregisteredinthe caption Employee benefits mainly reflects the liability reduction related to the benefit "Telephone subscription charge'' which occurred on 31 March 2019.


During the period ended 31 March 2020, this caption includes manly indemnities related to the termination of employment contracts.
Social welfare costs relate almost entirely to health costs incurred by the Group with the active workers, as well as expenses related to Health and Safety at work.
As at 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Group heading Staff costs includes the amounts of 197,496 Euros and 102,423 Euros, respectively, related to expenses with workers' representative bodies.
For the year ended 31 March 2020, the average number of staff of the Group was 12,118 employees in the year ended 31 March 2019).
For the periods ended 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020, the heading Interest Expenses of the Group had the following detail:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Interest expenses | ||
| Bank loans | 9.712 | 407,903 |
| Lease liabilities | 956.648 | 822.982 |
| Other interest | 105.108 | 147.095 |
| Interest costs from employee benefits | 1,307.803 | 1.115.146 |
| Other interest costs | 4.813 | 21.227 |
| 2,384,083 | 2,514,353 |
During the periods ended 31 March 2029 and 31 March 2020, the Group heading Interest income was detailed as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Interest income | ||
| Deposits in credit institutions | 16.803 | 3.143 |
| Other supplementary income | 5.366 | |
| 22.169 | 3.143 |
Companies with head office in Portugal are subject to tax on their profit through Corporate Income Tax ("IRC") at the normal tax rate of 21%, whilst the municipal tax is established at a maximum rate of 1.5% of taxable profit, and State surcharge is 3% of taxable profit above 1,500,000 Euros and 5% of taxable profit above 7,500,000 up to 35,000,000 Euros and 9% of the taxable profit above 35,000,000 Euros. CTT – Expresso, S.A., Spain branchis subject to incometaxes in Spain, through income tax (Impuesto sobre Sociedades - "IS") at a rate of 25%, and the subject to corporate income tax in Mozambique ("IRPC") at a rate of 32%.
Corporate income tax is levied on CTT and its subsidiaries CTT – Expresso, S.A., Payshop Portugal, S.A, CTT Contacto, S.A. and Banco CTT, S.A., through the Special Regime for the Taxation of Groups of Companies ("RETGS"). The remaining companies are taxed individually.


For the periods ended 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020, the reconciliation between the nominal rate and the effective income tax rate of the Group was as follows:
| 31.03.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Earnings before taxes (a) | 6.603.407 | 6.196.447 |
| Nominal tax rate | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| 1,386,715 | 1,301,254 | |
| Tax Benefits | (86,818) | (98,465) |
| Accounting capital gains/ (losses) | (3,724) | (124,035) |
| Tax capital gains / (losses) | 2.435 | 71,071 |
| Equity method | 117.172 | |
| Provisions not considered in the calculation of deferred taxes | (1,139) | 5,115 |
| Impairment losses and reversals | 36.856 | 62,380 |
| Compensation for insurable events | 34,429 | 21,070 |
| Depreciation and car rental charges | 14,886 | 3,887 |
| Credits uncollectible | 1,684 | 5,658 |
| Fines, interest, compensatory interest and other charges | 1,148 | 4,167 |
| Other situations, net | 488,515 | 97,638 |
| Adjustments related with - autonomous taxation | 118,672 | 165,276 |
| Tax losses without deferred tax | 538,322 | |
| Insuficiency / (Excess) estimated income tax | 101,714 | |
| Subtotal (b) | 2,531,981 | 1,733,902 |
| (b)/(a) | 38.34% | 27.98% |
| Adjustments related with - Municipal Surcharge | 109,288 | 197,558 |
| Adjustments related with - State Surcharge | 271,746 | 553.732 |
| Income taxes for the period | 2,913,015 | 2,485,192 |
| Effective tax rate | 44.11% | 40.11% |
| Income taxes for the period | ||
| Current tax | (306.283) | 2.189.533 |
| Deferred tax | 3,219,298 | 397,373 |
| Insuficiency / (Excess) estimated income tax | (101.714) | |
| 2,913,015 | 2,485,192 |
In the three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the heading "Insufficiency / (Excess) estimated income tax" refers essentially to the excess of the IRC estimate for the year 2018.
As at 31 December 2019 and 31 March 2020, the balance of the Group deferred tax assets and liabilities was composed as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Deferred tax assets | ||
| Employee benefits - healthcare | 76,839,990 | 76.730,521 |
| Employee benefits - pension plan | 84.668 | 83.459 |
| Employee benefits - other long-term benefits | 2,868,626 | 2,671,428 |
| Impairment losses and provisions | 5,032,656 | 3,155,016 |
| Tax losses carried forward | 1,289,985 | 1,289,985 |
| Impairment losses in tangible fixed assets | 385,810 | 404.890 |
| Land and buildings | 356,809 | 356.809 |
| Tangible assets' tax revaluation regime | 1,924,292 | 1,844,113 |
| Other | 546.970 | 2,292,520 |
| 89,329,806 | 88,828,741 | |
| Deferred tax liabilities | ||
| Revaluation of tangible fixed assets before IFRS | 2.137.282 | 2.087.130 |
| Suspended capital qains | 718.036 | 711.201 |
| Non-current assets held for sale | 83.010 | 83.010 |
| Other | 19.787 | 19.787 |
| 2,958,115 | 2,901,128 |


The deferredtax assetrelated to Tangible assets tax revaluation regime was recognised following the Companies accession to the regime established in Decree-Law no. 66/2016, of 3 November. In the year ended 31 March 2020 the deferred tax asset amounts to 1,844,113 Euros.
As at 31 March 2020, the expected amount of deferred tax assets and liabilities to be settled within 12 months is 2.6 million Euros and 0.2 million Euros, respectively, regarding the Group.
During the year ended 31 December 2019 and three-month period ended 31 March 2020, the movements which occurred under the deferred tax headings of the Group were as follows:
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Deferred tax assets | ||
| Opening balances | 81,734,114 | 89,329,806 |
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 1.679.394 | |
| Effect on net profit | ||
| Employee benefits - healthcare | (664,362) | (109,469) |
| Employee benefits - pension plan | (10,581) | (1,209) |
| Employee benefits – other long-term benefits | 223.382 | (197.198) |
| Impairment losses and provisions | (287,039) | (201,001) |
| Tax losses carried forward | (2,904) | |
| Impairment losses in tanqible fixed assets | 102,337 | 19,080 |
| Land and buildings | (95,203) | |
| Tangible assets' tax revaluation regime | (320,715) | (80,179) |
| Other | (47,157) | 68,911 |
| Effect on equity | ||
| Employee benefits - healthcare | 7,000,770 | |
| Employee benefits - pension plan | 17,769 | |
| Closing balance | 89,329,806 | 88,828,741 |
| 31.12.2019 | 31.03.2020 | |
| Deferred tax liabilities | ||
| Opening balances | 3,108,662 | 2,958,115 |
| Changes in the consolidation perimeter | 83,010 | |
| Effect on net profit | ||
| Revaluation of tangible fixed assets before IFRS adoption | (200,606) | (50,152) |
| Suspended capital qains | (27,341) | (6.835) |
| Other | (5.610) | |
| Closing balance | 2,958,115 | 2,901,128 |
The tax losses caried forward are related to the subsidiaries Tourline and Transporta which were merged by incorporation into CTT Expresso, S.A. and are detailed as follows:
| Company | Tax losses | Deferred tax assets |
|---|---|---|
| CTT - Expresso, S.A., branch in Spain | 61.016.826 | |
| CTT Expresso/Transporta | 6,142,786 | 1,289,985 |
| Total | 67,159,612 | 1,289,985 |
Regarding CTT – Expresso, S.A., branch in Spain (prior Tourline), the tax losses of the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 may be reported in the next 15 years, the tax losses related to 2012, 2013 and 2014 may be carried forwardin the next 18 years and the tax losses of the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 have no time limit for deduction. Regarding CTT Expresso the tax losses refer to the years 2017 and 2018 of the company Transporta, which was mergedin CTT Expresso during the year 2019 and may be carried forward in the next 5 years.
The sensitivity analysisperformed allows us to conclude that a 1% reduction in the underlying rate of deferred tax would imply an increase in the income tax for the period of about 2.2 million Euros in the Group.


The Group's policy for recognition of fiscal credits regarding SIFIDE is to recognise the credit at the effective receipt from the commission certification statement, certifying the eligibility of expenses presented in the applications for tax benefits.
For the year ended 31 December 2018 the expenses incurred with R&D, of 737,089 Euros the Group will have the possibility of benefiting from a tax deduction in corporate income tax estimated at 248,131 Euros.
For the year ended 31 December 2019 the expenses incurred with R&D, of 1,063,800 Euros the Group will have the possibility of benefiting from a tax deduction in corporate income tax estimated at 443,571 Euros.
Pursuant to the legislation in force in Portugal, income tax returns are subject to review and correction by the tax authorities for a period of four years (five years for Social Security), except when there have been tax losses, tax benefits have been received, or when inspections, claims or challenges are in progress, in which cases, depending on the circumstances, these years are extended or suspended. Therefore, CTT's income tax returns from 2017 and onwards may still be reviewed and corrected.
The Board of Directors of the Company believes that any corrections arising from reviews /inspections by the tax authorities of these income tax returns will not have a significant effect on the consolidated financial statements as at 31 March 2020.
The Regulation on Assessment and Control of transactions with CTT related party as: qualified shareholder, manager or third party with any of these related through relevant commercial or personal interest (under the terms of IAS 24) and also subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures of CTT. It is considered that there is a "relevant commercial or personal interest" in relation to (i) close family members and qualified shareholder(s) who, at each moment, have significant influence (as defined above) on CTT, as well as (ii) controlled entities (individually or jointly), either by management, qualified shareholders or by the persons referred to in (i). For this purpose, "control" is considered to exist when the party has, directly or indirectly, the power to guide the financial and operational policies of an entity in order to obtain benefits from its activities. Additionally, "close family members" are: (i) the spouse or domestic partner and (ii) the children and dependents of the person and persons referred to in (i).
According to the Regulation, the significant transactions with related parties, as well as transactions that members of the Board of Directors of CTT and /or its subsidiaries conduct with CTT and/or its subsidiaries, must be previously approved by the Audit Committee of CTT.
The other related parties ' transactions are communicated to the purpose of subsequent examination.
During the periods ended 31 March 2020, the following transactions took place and the following balances existed with related parties, regarding the Group:


| 31.03.2019 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounts receivable | Accounts payable | Revenues | Costs | Dividends | |||
| Shareholders | |||||||
| Group companies | |||||||
| Associated companies | 5,603 | 3.130 | 3.053 | 1.707 | |||
| Jointly controlled | 1,010,641 | 75,283 | 1 | ||||
| Members of the | (Note 23) | ||||||
| Board of Directors | 1 | 900,566 | |||||
| Audit Committee | 55.714 | ||||||
| Remuneration Committee | 1 | 1 | 13.950 | 1 | |||
| General Meeting | 1 | ||||||
| 1 016 243 | 2 1 20 | 78 225 | 971 937 | I |
| 31.03.2020 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounts receivable | Accounts payable | Revenues | Costs | Dividends | ||
| Shareholders | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Group companies | ||||||
| Associated companies | 4.970 | 8,196 | 3,112 | 24.841 | ||
| Jointly controlled | 205.061 | 203,363 | 1 | |||
| Members of the | (Note 23) | |||||
| Board of Directors | 631,114 | 1 | ||||
| Audit Committee | 47.357 | 1 | ||||
| Remuneration Committee | 1 | 13.950 | 1 | |||
| General Meeting | 1 | |||||
| 210.030 | 8.196 | 206.475 | 717,262 | - |
In the context of transactions with related parties, no commitments were made, nor were any guarantees given or received in addition to the comfort letters assumed regarding CTT Expresso, branch in Spain, mentioned in Note 19.
No provision was recognised for doubtful debts or expenses recognised during the period in respect of bad or doubtful debts owed by related parties.
The transactions and balances between subsidiaries are eliminated in the consolidation process and are not disclosed in this note
Under the Universal Postal Service Concession Contract, on 13.03.2020, CTT invoked force majeure the Regulator, following the public health emergency of international scope, declared by the World Health Organization on 30.01.2020 and the subsequent classification of COVID-19 as a pandemic, on 11 March. In view of the seriousness and magnitude of the facts, which are public and notorious, and in order to comply with the public health instructions issued by the competent authorities, CTT could not fail to take the necessary and appropriate measures to protect workers and customers.
Pursuant to the provisions of the concession contract, CTT continues to ensure the functioning of postal services, taking the necessary and appropriate measures to the situation of force majeure, in terms of planning, operation prevention and human resources, submitting a daily update of the Government, as a counterparty, and to ANACOM, the regulatory authority responsible for overseeing the provision of universal postal service.
The legal proceedings relating to the ANACOM regarding the parameters of quality of service and performance objectives applicable to the provision of the universal postal service, issued in July 2018, are subject to their terms. In the arbitral action brought against the Portuguese State, as grantor, is in the stage of producing evidence. In the administrative proceedings brought against ANACOM, the same decision and the second concerning the December 2018


determination regarding the new measurement procedures to the indicators, there were no relevant developments.
The process related to the proposal of the application of 11 contractual fines, initiated in 2018, within the Universal Postal Service Concession Agreement, based on alleged breaches of obligations resulting from the contract which occurred during 2015, 2016 and 2017, is pending a decision following the additional submission of evidence determined by the grantor.
The administrative proceedings for the alleged violation to have a hard copy of the complaints book in the establishments operating on behalf of CTT and the alleged breach of the obligation to immediately provide at no cost the complaints book to the users who requested it, had no significant developments.
Following ANACOM's decision onthe 2016 cost accounting system results, under which new criteria for the allocation of costs between the postal activity and the banking activity of the Company were identified, and specified that the cost accounting system for the 2016 and 2017 financial years in this regard should be restated, CTT submitted the results regarding those years as well as the results of the 2018 according to the new criteria, as determined. Audits for the three financial years are ongoing.
The precautionary measures filed by several Intermunities or by Municipalities following the process of transformation of Post Offices into Postal Agencies, covering situations where only a single post office exists in a county seat, were all dismissed, or considered that there was no need to adjudicate.
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 disease as a pandemic. This situation has evolved very rapidly and measures have been taken internationally to severely restrict the rights of free movement and economic freedom, thus seeking to prevent the virus. Several governments, authorities and economic agents are implementing a series of initiatives with a very relevant impact on the populations and on the global and national economic activity, while the State of Emergency was declared in Portugal on 18 Marchlast. The COVID-19 pandemic affected consumers and, although the Group has maintained its activity and has been associated from the outset with the "stay at home" movement in the various geographies where it operates and carried out various initiatives aimed at facilitating access for all to the services provided, business has generally been negatively influenced.
Due to the context of uncertainty, in the Annual General Meeting of 29 April CTT decided to suspend the 2019 dividend and allocate the 2019 net profit to Retained Earnings, as well as suspend the payment of the 2019 variable remuneration. The Group also implemented additional measures to strengthen its financial position and ensure its operational response, while seeking to preserve the value of traditional businesses and invest in new ones, more linked to digital platforms and e-commerce.
Regarding the impacts on the financial statements as at 31 March 2020, the effect on the Group's revenues should be noted. The Mail business unit was particularly affected, with greater relevance in the E&P business unit was also impacted, especially in Spain, with several initiatives launched in Portugal to help companies market their products. The Financial Services & Retail business unit suffered the greatest impact, with a significant reduction in Public Debt Certificates subscriptions. In March, the impacts on Banco CTT business unit were not so significant.
The Group also carried out the following additional reviews in the context of the pandemic:


As at 31 March 2020, the Group had not received any State aid or subsidy associated with COVID-19.
As CTT has been ensuring the continuity of its operations, the impact of COVID-19 on business growth and profitability cannot be reliably quantified, because it is extremely difficult to ascertain it with a reasonable degree of cent depends on the duration of the pandemic and the severity of its impacts on the international and the domestic economy.
Afterthe end of the year and up to the present date, no relevant or material facts have occurred in the Group's activity that have not been disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.
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