25.Contingent Liabilities and Other Financial Commitments

Contingent Liabilities

The following table presents warranty contracts as well as other contingent liabilities existing as of the reporting date:

Contingent liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dec. 31, 2020

 

Dec. 31, 2021

 

 

€ million

 

€ million

Warranty contracts

 

3

 

4

Other contingent liabilities

 

3

 

5

Total

 

6

 

9

Other Financial Commitments

The other financial commitments were as follows:

Other financial commitments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dec. 31, 2020

 

Dec. 31, 2021

 

 

€ million

 

€ million

Orders already placed for started or planned investment projects

 

236

 

335

Loan commitments to pension funds

 

219

 

219

Purchase agreement in regard to the acquisition of RFM from Koninklijke DSM N.V.1

 

1,629

 

Total

 

2,084

 

554

1

For additional information, see note 5.2 “Acquisitions and divestitures.”

Some of the pension obligations allocable to the Covestro Group are funded through pension institutions used jointly with other companies (especially Bayer AG). In such cases, it can generally be contractually ensured that Covestro participates accordingly in funding measures that serve to guarantee adequate funding status and/or adequate solvency capital of these pension institutions for the long term. To this end, Covestro AG agreed to grant interest-bearing loans of up to €208 million for Bayer-Pensionskasse VVaG, Leverkusen (Germany), and up to €11 million for Rheinische Pensionskasse VVaG, Leverkusen (Germany), for the effective initial fund to be drawn down as required.