Intra-group positions arise from services provided by N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie to group companies and vice versa, from dividend payments within the group and from cash pool transactions carried out by the head of the group on behalf of the group companies as part of normal continuing operations.

No repayment schedule has been agreed for the liabilities to group companies; the liabilities have the characteristics of a current account facility.

In certain cases, we pay arm’s length interest on the balance of the intra-group liabilities, based on a floating interest rate plus a margin appropriate to both N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie’s risk profile and that of the group company in question.