Related-party disclosures

With the exception of the matters described in the following, there were no significant changes as of September 30, 2018 to the related-party disclosures reported in the consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2017.

Joint ventures. In March 2018, the shareholders of the equity-accounted joint venture Toll Collect GmbH resolved to distribute a dividend, Deutsche Telekom’s share of which is EUR 0.1 billion. On May 16, 2018, Daimler Financial Services AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, and the Federal Republic of Germany reached an agreement to end the Toll Collect arbitration proceedings. As it had announced in advance, the Federal Republic of Germany exercised its option to purchase 100 percent of the shares in the operating company, Toll Collect GmbH, when the operating agreement expired on August 31, 2018. Even after the acquisition of Toll Collect GmbH by the Federal Republic of Germany, the consortium Toll Collect GbR – comprising Deutsche Telekom AG, Daimler Financial Services AG and Compagnie Financière et Industrielle des Autoroutes S.A. (Cofiroute) – continues to exist with an unchanged ownership structure. For more information, please refer to the section “Changes in the composition of the Group, transactions with owners, and other transactions.”

Deutsche Telekom Trust e.V. On March 23, 2018, the 12 percent stake in BT, which was worth EUR 3.1 billion at the time, was transferred to the Group’s own trust, Deutsche Telekom Trust e.V., where it will serve as plan assets to cover pension entitlements.