EFRAG published an Invitation to Comment relating to the endorsement for use in the EU of the IAS 19 'Employee Benefits' (as amended in 2011). Comments are requested by 29 September 2011.
In June 2011, the IASB issued an amended version of IAS 19 'Employee Benefits'. The IASB’s Amendments focus on the immediate recognition of all changes in the net liability or asset (elimination of the ‘corridor approach’ and elimination of options in the presentation of actuarial gains and losses), the disaggregation and presentation of defined benefit cost components, redefining the components of defined benefit cost, the treatment of plan amendments, curtailments and settlements, termination benefits and improvements in disclosures, but also makes various other changes to IAS 19.
EFRAG's Invitation to Comment relating to the endorsement of the Amendments for use in the European Union and European Economic Area is consulting both on its assessment of the Amendments against the technical criteria for the endorsement in the EU, and on its initial assessment of the costs and benefits that would arise from the implementation and application of the Amendments in the EU. EFRAG has tentatively decided that IAS 19 (as amended in June 2011) satisfies the technical criteria for EU endorsement and EFRAG should therefore recommend its endorsement.
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