2025 Universal Registration Document

General and financial elements

19.2 Current operating assets and liabilities

Current operating assets and liabilities break down as follows:

Maturity
(in € millions)   31/12/2025 Maturity
Within 1 year
1 to 3 months 3 to 6 months 6 to 12 months Between 1 and 5 years After 5 years
Inventories and work in progress   1,700 708 461 365 143 23
Trade and other receivables   19,504 16,066 1,442 1,136 812 48
Other current operating assets   8,208 6,496 658 709 328 17
Inventories and operating receivables I

29,412

23,269

2,561

2,209

1,284

89

Trade payables   (14,868) (11,793) (1,461) (1,219) (318) (77)
Other current operating liabilities   (23,772) (18,663) (1,523) (1,852) (1,552) (182)
Trade and other operating payables II

(38,639)

(30,456)

(2,984)

(3,071)

(1,870)

(259)

Working capital requirement connected with operations

I + II

(9,227)

(7,187)

(423)

(862)

(586)

(170)

Maturity
(in € millions)   31/12/2024 Maturity
Within 1 year
1 to 3 months 3 to 6 months 6 to 12 months Between 1 and 5 years After 5 years
Inventories and work in progress   1,772 818 106 732 112 4
Trade and other receivables   19,365 15,580 1,210 2,002 518 55
Other current operating assets   8,312 6,669 372 980 241 51
Inventories and operating receivables

I

29,449

23,067

1,687

3,714

871

110

Trade payables   (14,464) (11,672) (1,024) (1,313) (380) (74)
Other current operating liabilities   (22,259) (17,451) (1,258) (2,202) (1,144) (204)
Trade and other operating payables

II

(36,723)

(29,124)

(2,282)

(3,515)

(1,524)

(278)

Working capital requirement connected with operations

I + II

(7,274)

(6,057)

(595)

199

(653)

(168)

Breakdown of trade receivables
Breakdown of trade receivables
(in € millions) 31/12/2025 31/12/2024
Trade receivables

Trade receivables

31/12/2025

9,395

Trade receivables

31/12/2024

9,496

Allowances against trade receivables

Allowances against trade receivables

31/12/2025

(724)

Allowances against trade receivables

31/12/2024

(743)

Trade receivables, net Trade receivables, net

31/12/2025

8,671

Trade receivables, net

31/12/2024

8,753

At 31 December 2025, trade receivables between six and 12 months past due amounted to €338 million (compared with €349 million at 31 December 2024). Impairment in the amount of €34 million has been recognised in consequence (€26 million at 31 December 2024). Receivables more than one year past due amounted to €404 million (€451 million at 31 December 2024) and impairment of €257 million has been recognised in consequence (€311 million at 31 December 2024).

19.3 Breakdown of current provisions
Accounting policies

Current provisions are directly related to the operating cycle. They are recognised in accordance with IAS 37 and include the part at less than one year of non-current provisions not directly linked to the operating cycle.

These provisions are recognised at their present value. The effect of discounting provisions is recognised under “Other financial income and expense”.

Provisions are taken for contractual obligations to maintain the condition of concession assets. They concern the motorway concession companies and cover the expense of major repairs to roads, bridges, tunnels and hydraulic infrastructure. They also include expenses to be incurred by airport concession companies or those managing the facilities (repairs to runways, traffic lanes and other paved surfaces) and are calculated on the basis of maintenance plans spanning several years, which are updated annually. These expenses are reassessed on the basis of appropriate indices (mainly the TP01, TP02 and TP09 indices in France). Provisions are also taken whenever signs of defects are encountered on certain infrastructure.

Provisions for after-sales service cover Group entities’ commitments under statutory warranties relating to completed projects, such as the 10-year warranty on building projects in France. They are estimated statistically on the basis of expenses incurred in previous years or individually on the basis of specifically identified events.

Provisions for losses on completion of contracts and for construction project liabilities are set aside mainly when end-of-contract projections, based on the most likely estimated outcome, indicate a loss, or to cover work yet to be carried out in respect of completed projects under completion warranties.

Provisions for disputes connected with operations relate mainly to disputes with customers, subcontractors, joint contractors or suppliers.

Restructuring provisions include the cost of plans and measures for which there is a commitment whenever these have been announced before the period end.