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Provisions have been made for pending legal risks in line with the estimated probability of costs arising from litigation. No provisions have been made, inter alia, for the following pending legal proceedings due to the low probability of claims being lodged. An outflow of funds cannot, however, be excluded in these cases, either:
- actions brought by individual employees (current and former) for additional payments into the pension funds,
- action brought by the German Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben (BVS) in Switzerland for repayment of credit balances held, and disposed of, by the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) at the former banking subsidiary in Zurich.