• 2025 Issued Standard – IFRS 19
  The 2025 Issued Standards include all amendments issued up to and including 31 December 2024.

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Note that the Issued Standards contain amendments that have a mandatory effective date that is later than 1 January 2025. Find details of the effective dates of amendments to this Standard in the Recent Amendments section below.

IFRS 19 is a voluntary standard which permits reduced disclosures for eligible subsidiaries applying IFRS Accounting Standards in their financial statements. The standard is effective from 1 January 2027, subject to local endorsement requirements, with early application permitted.

Any new Standards or amendments to Standards issued since the publication of IFRS 19 in May 2024 will, where appropriate, include consequential amendments to IFRS 19. While the effective date of such new Standards or amendments may be earlier than 1 January 2027, the effective date of the consequential amendments to IFRS 19 will be 1 January 2027.

IFRS 19 is a disclosure-only standard that works alongside other IFRS Accounting Standards. Eligible subsidiaries apply the reduced disclosure requirements of IFRS 19, while applying the full recognition, measurement and presentation requirements of other relevant IFRS Accounting Standards.

A subsidiary is eligible to apply IFRS 19 if:

• it does not have public accountability; and
• its (ultimate or intermediate) parent produces consolidated financial statements available for public use that comply with IFRS Accounting Standards.

A subsidiary is considered to have public accountability if:

• its debt or equity instruments are traded in a public market or it is in the process of issuing such instruments for trading in a public market (a domestic or foreign stock exchange or an over-the-counter market, including local and regional markets); or
• it holds assets in a fiduciary capacity for a broad group of outsiders as one of its primary businesses (for example, banks, credit unions, insurance companies, securities brokers/dealers, mutual funds and investment banks often meet this second criterion).

A subsidiary applying IFRS 19 must consider whether additional disclosures are necessary if compliance with IFRS 19 would not be sufficient for users to understand its financial statements. A subsidiary must disclose the fact that it is applying IFRS 19 as part of its general compliance statement.

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