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1. Adoption Updates in XBRL: Conor O’Kelly XBRL International, Vice Chairperson October 2009

5. XBRL Adoption Drivers- Europe: Reducing Administrative Burden January 2007: Commission presents Action Programme (AP) for reducing administrative burdens on businesses in the EU by 25% in 2012. It is part of its Better Regulation strategy. AP is endorsed by the European Council which agreed to a 25% reduction target for burdens originating in EU law and invited Member States to “set national targets of comparable ambition.” The EU reduction target covers Community legislation and related national transposition measures. A 25% reduction of AB in the EU could yield € 150 bn in the medium term (an increase of EU GDP of 1.4%). The project will take 18 months . The project started in Sept 2007. The results reviewed by the European Council March 2009. EU Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burden http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/regulation/better_regulation/docs/gjk_actionprog_170108.pdf

7. XBRL Adoption Drivers- Europe, Market Regulation Oct2008- EU President Barroso appointed High Level Group on Financial Supervision in EU aiming to promote e-gov and identify best practices in IT use in order to enable the EU to contribute to international and multi-national initiatives. The group are encouraging the Commission (and Member States) to consider a ‘pull model – once only’; European Parliament (EP) resolution of 21 May 2008 – a call for the EC to encourage Member States to harmonise the classification of financial information and promote the use of new technology, such as XBRL; Council meeting of 7 November 2008 – aiming to promote common standards between financial centres, more transparency and comprehensive information systems, and reformed multilateral surveillance. 26 January 2009 - EC announced plans to revise the operational framework and decision-making processes of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and Insurance & Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS ). Seeking to safeguard financial stability by improving supervisory co-operation, the decision also proposes provide direct funding to those committees and to key international financial reporting and auditing standard-setting bodies, namely the IASC Foundation, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the Public Interest Oversight Body (PIOB). The proposal is now in the co-decision procedure for approval by the EP and the Council. High Level Group on Financial Supervision in EU – De Larosiere Report (Feb 2009) http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/finances/docs/de_larosiere_report_en.pdf

10. XBRL Adoption Drivers- US Securities and Exchange Commission Requires submission of XBRL-formatted financial statements and financial statement schedules via an ‘XBRL Exhibit’ for annual, quarterly filings and registration statements (and via posting XBRL Exhibit on corporate website) ‘ Disclosure neutral’ Phase-in, however early adoption is permitted: Domestic and foreign large accelerated fliers using US GAAP with a worldwide public float of greater than $5 billion (at Q2 of most recent completed fiscal year) - beginning with a periodic report on Form 10-Q, Form 20-F or Form 40-F containing financial statements for a fiscal periods ending on or after June 15, 2009. Remaining large accelerated filers using US GAAP – beginning with a periodic report on Form 10-Q, Form 20-F or Form 40-F containing financial statements for a fiscal period ending on or after June 15, 2010. All remaining smaller domestic filers as well as foreign private issuers using IFRS – beginning with a periodic report on Form 10-Q, Form 20-F or Form 40-F containing financial statements for a fiscal period ending on or after June 15, 2011. 30 day grace period available for the: initial filing in the each of the first two years Initial filing of detail tagging (if early adoption) http://WhiteHouse.gov http://USA.gov http://Recovery.gov

13. Jurisdiction Updates (Europe)

14. La Belgique Jurisdiction: XBRL-BE Member : Full Member (2004) 300.000 annual accounts in XBRL format with National Bank of Belgium (NBB) filed annually (98%+ of all filings). NBB and the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (BFIC) have developed Belgian extensions to the European FINREP and COREP taxonomies.Basle II,COREP XBRL reporting mandatory from 1 January 2008. The Directorate-general Statistics and Economic information (former National Institute for Statistics) is currently involved in a study to develop an XBRL application allowing companies to fill in surveys about their structure, using data from annual accounts. SBR projects running in National Bank Belgium, Federal Public Service (FPS) Finance (Corporate Tax Returns) , Federal Public Service (FPS) Economie (Business Service Taxonomies), linked to EU Action Program to reduce administrative burden Annual administrative cost savings achieved to date €37m

15. Deutschland Jurisdiction: XBRL-DE Member : Full Member (2004) 2.5 million German small and midcap companies are able to report in XBRL format (those using the bookkeeping services of DATEV) without any own investment. Jan 2007- XBRL enabled filing with German Public Register Authority (Bundesanzeiger): about 1 million entities;

16. Dansk Jurisdiction: XBRL-DK Member : Full Member (2005) Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (DCCA), is responsible for the Danish XBRL solution have developed XBRL portal, which is called DRP (digital reporting platform). XBRL mandatory for company reports in 2011 March 2008, SME can submit full annual reports in XBRL to the DCCA, the official registrar for Danish companies. Includes tagging for Danish tax authorities and Statistics Denmark. DCCA segregates re-transmits it to other relevant public agencies. DCCA’s objectives: ensuring display and presentation are the same as when they were signed at a company’s AGM. Therefore companies choose style sheet to be uploaded with the XBRL instance document. PDF, Excel XBRL versions of each financial statement are published. Taxonomy (2,900 elements) includes both Danish and English text covers Class B companies, ~ 90% of all Danish companies. The taxonomy is based on the EU’s accounting directives Nos. 4 and 7, which prescribe P&L and balance sheet, as well as generally accepted accounting principles for Danish small companies (mainly for the notes to the statements). The taxonomy encompasses a full annual report, containing the following sections: statement by the board of executives and board of directors, independent auditor’s report, executive report, accounting policies, profit and loss, balance sheet, and notes. Currently filing is voluntary ~ 250 filed reports.

17. Éire Jurisdiction: XBRL-IE Member : Full Member (2004) Irish GAAP taxonomy updated for FRS 20-29. The Irish Government review has endorsed the early adoption of mandatory electronic filing along with XBRL financial statements. The reports calls for Companies Registration Office (CRO) and Revenue Commissioners to work closely together and to engage with accountancy bodies to produce a cross-agency result which can be replicated by other Government agencies through their existing customer service mechanisms. The High-level Group also suggests that companies that maintain the e-profile and file accounts through XBRL should not be required to file duplicate information with any other Government Department, Agency or Office. In summary, the Group believes that by introducing a simultaneous return date to CRO and Revenue, by phasing in mandatory e-filing, including accounting data in XBRL-format, and by ensuring that agencies can cross-access data, the burden on Irish business will be considerably reduced. COREP/FINREP: Optional

18. Éire Companies Office Pilot CRO Meeting with November 2008 Commitment re instance and taxonomy Meeting with senior personnel from Revenue Revenue working group established Rendering tool developed Test instance partially completed Test instance rendered One third party software vendor well advanced Application to receive and validate partially developed ROS signature made available for use by CRO First filing Q4-2009

19. España Jurisdiction: XBRL-ES Member : Full Member (2004) Feb2009 Government of Spain the published Order BOE JUS/206/2009, mandating all companies to submit their financial statements in XBRL. The initiative will be implemented using PGC2007 , the XBRL standard for the GAAP 2007 developed by the Institute of Accounting and Audit (ICAC), INTECO, FUNDETEC, Companies Registry, XBRL Spain, and financial institutions and software developers. Hopes are that 600,000 XBRL reports will be generated in the first year. If this figure is reached then Spain would be the international forerunner in the XBRL community with the largest number of available XBRL instance documents and the largest number of entities using XBRL. 3rd e-learning XBRL Course (7 weeks): 30 Iberoamerican Supervisors 1st Iberoamerican Supervisors XBRL Summit: 20-23 October, Guatemala Instances filed in 2009: Mercantile Registrars Association of Spain -> 500.000 XBRL instances Banking Supervision –> 13.000 XBRL instances Spanish Securities Supervision -> 5.000 XBRL instances Ministry of Economy (Municipalities) -> 2.000 XBRL instances

20. La France Jurisdiction: XBRL-FR Member : Full Member (2005) Taxonomie Comptes annuels (TCA) which is currently being validated by the Conseil national de la Comptabilité (CNC), the French national council for accounting. will be adopted as the taxonomy for French GAAP, for use in social accounts reporting. Feb09 i-greffes.fr, was launched by Infogreffe, the French companies registrar. The new portal provides much more functionality (including the generation of XBRL-format reports) and represents a major step towards compliance with the ministerial directive calling for the electronic filing of financial statements. An estimated 800,000 annual accounts will be posted in XBRL format via the portal, thus improving the quality and accessibility of legal information for French companies. Dec08 the exposure draft of the Taxonomie Système Unifé de Reporting Financers (SURFI) was published, containing 2,000 elements and 23 dimensions. Initially launched in June 2007as a major project by the Banque de France, the SURFI taxonomy is seen as an important step towards improving the system of collecting financial information. The taxonomy is regarded as ‘unified’ because it will be used by both prudential supervisors and statisticians when providing financial data to the European Central Bank, and also because it allows COREP and FINREP reporting. The first reports generated using the taxonomy are expected from June 2010.

21. Italia Jurisdiction: XBRL-IT Member : Full Member (2007) The deposit of annual and consolidated accounts has been successfully experimented in May 2007 - filing of about 900 annual accounts with Chambers of Commerce in Italy. Dec08 the Italian XBRL Association released the taxonomy for Italian GAAP, developed by a working group co-ordinated by InfoCamere and including XBRL Italy, the Consiglio Nazionale Dottori Commercialisti ed Esperti Contabili (the national professional and accounting association) and the University of Trento. February 2009 the Italian Official Gazette published the decree signed by the President of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri Italiano) for the transmission of annual accounts in editable electronic format (XBRL criteria) to Business Register (1,200,000 annual accounts 2008) mandatory.

22. Grand-Duché de Luxembourg Jurisdiction: XBRL-LU Member : Full Member (2007) CSSF (Banking Supervisor) has developed the Luxembourg COREP and FINREP taxonomies. The COREP/FINREP reportings are mandatory as from 1st January 2008. The BCL (Luxembourg Central Bank) is currently defining a taxonomy which will be mandatory for non-monetary investment funds reporting 2010 onwards. A first step of this project has been taken by switching to an XML based reporting in January 2009. STATEC, the national statistical institute of Luxembourg, is finalizing the taxonomy for annual accounts filing which should go live in 2012 (collection of 2011 accounts). The required legal framework is currently put into force. The Information campaign as well as the training processes will strart in 2010 and intensified in 2011. This taxonomy is to cover the needs of the Central Office for Balance Sheets and the Companies’ Register as well. The Insurance sector is considering implementing XBRL taxonomies in their oncoming reporting projects.

23. Netherlands Jurisdiction: XBRL-NL Member : Full Member (2002) Dutch Government: eGovernment program scheduled to reduce compliance costs by €350 million/annum. The program is focussed on financial, tax and statistical reporting. Dutch Government also started to develop an extension on the Dutch Taxonomy to be used by the financial services for credit risk filings (based on Basel II) The infrastructure for electronic filing of financial statements, tax and statistical filings based on XBRL is available. Dutch Government is supporting the XBRL project initiated by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. COREP/FINREP: Optional

25. Polska Jurisdiction: XBRL-PL Member : Prov. Member (2005) National Bank of Poland (NBP): obligatory implementation of FINREP and COREP taxonomies (first instances have been collected Q4 2007), Monitor Polski B (institution similar to Company House): project related to collection and publishing of financial statements based on Polish GAAP and IFRS. XBRL POLSKA project: development of Polish GAAP taxonomy, translation of IFRS taxonomy labels, Oct2009: Workshop attended by representatives of Ministry of Finance (Customs reports to the taxing authorities), Polish National Bank (FINREP reports, COREP), Financial Supervisory Commission, Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Justice (KRS), Prime Minister's Chancellery (Polish Monitor reports B) discussed the possibility of the current regulatory reporting. Working Group on Harmonization and standardization of reporting in Poland under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance to be established.

27. Sverige Jurisdiction: XBRL-SE Member : Full Member (2005) XBRL filing program initiated by Bolagsverket ( The Swedish Companies Registration Office) . 5 June 2007 Bolagsverket and XBRL Sweden released two final and approved versions of taxonomies: one for small to mid-size companies (se-smp) and one for the Swedish audit report (se-ar). Voluntary filing for private limited companies.

28. United Kingdom Jurisdiction: XBRL-UK Member : Full Member (2002) Mandatory filing from 2011. To date in 2007, over 200,000 companies voluntarily report using XBRL to UK regulators. Filing of company tax returns and accounts in XBRL will be mandatory from March 2011. One of the recommendations from Lord Carter’s 2006 review of HM Revenue and Custom’s (HMRC) Online Services, was that HMRC and Companies House should work together to provide a joint return filing facility. Lord Carter also recommended that companies and organisations that need to file a Company Tax Return, must file their returns using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Both HMRC and Companies House have been working closely since then to align their filing service, to ensure their customers benefit from the reduced administration a joint filing facility would bring. A joint statement was issued by HMRC and Companies House on 1 September 2009, to reinforce their shared commitment to a joint filing facility.

29. United Kingdom HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is implementing Lord Carter's recommendations to increase online filing which were accepted by Government at Budget 2006. The recommendations include compulsory requirements for businesses to file their Company Tax Returns online and to make Corporation Tax payments electronically. These regulations amend the Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/282, amended by S.I. 2005/3338). These amendments will provide new compulsory rules for Corporation Tax as follows: • online filing of Company Tax Returns using XBRL standard for all returns delivered after 31 March 2011 for accounting periods ending after 31 March 2010 • electronic payment of all Corporation Tax liabilities after 31 March 2011 http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/drafts/ct-online.htm

30. United Kingdom From April 2011 under Government proposals, all companies, clubs, societies, associations and other unincorporated bodies who are required to make a Company Tax Return will have to: - file their company tax returns online for all returns delivered after 31 March 2011 for accounting periods ending after 31 March 2010, using a specified XBRL data standard for accounts and computations and - pay their Corporation Tax electronically. Under these proposals HMRC will not accept: - a company tax return and required attachments filed on paper when it should have been filed online - any returns filed online with accounts and computations sent as Portable Document Format (PDF) attachments – all returns delivered after 31 March 2011 for accounting periods ending after 31 March 2010, must be filed using a specified XBRL (iXBRL) data standard for accounts and computations. The filing and electronic payment requirements are defined in the draft regulations and directions, which provide further detail on a number of areas within the regulations, on the HMRC website. https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/information/faqs/corporationTax?faqid=eng.faq.largecompanies.faq.faqct068&affinitygroup=

31. United Kingdom What is XBRL (iXBRL), and how do I fulfil my obligation to file online in XBRL? iXBRL (Inline XBRL) is a way of displaying XBRL. It allows data to be presented in a human readable form, either on screen or in printed output. It also enables the submitter to preserve branding, formatting and their preferred descriptors. Returns due after 31 March 2011 must be filed online using the XRBL (iXBRL) format for accounts and computations (including the CT600 form). For most customers, XBRL (iXBRL) will be a 'behind the scenes' change that you don't need to worry about - your software will do it for you. From the launch of the updated Corporation Tax Online service in autumn 2009 until the end of March 2011 you can choose to file your Company Tax returns online attaching accounts and computations either as PDFs or iXBRL format. You can also still file on paper during this period. While mandatory online filing is some way away, it's a good idea to consider whether your software will be able to handle the new XBRL (iXBRL) data formats - particularly if you are thinking of investing in new software in the near future. HMRC's new Corporation Tax online filing product from autumn 2009, will meet the required XBRL data standard for mandatory online filing.

32. What is iXBRL? Inline XBRL is a standard for embedding XBRL fragments into an HTML document. The objective is to provide documents which can be viewed in a browser while making use of XBRL tags which can be processed automatically by consuming applications. This specification defines the syntax for such documents and how the syntax maps into an XBRL instance.

33. XBRL : iXBRL Rendering Specification CR5 Inline XBRL (Rendering) Specification - CR5 - CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATIONS September 28, 2009 Approved for publication by the XBRL International Standards Board on 2009-10-01 The Working Group has issued "Call for Implementations" Send feedback to rendering-feedback@xbrl.org The Candidate Recommendation consists of a specification and supporting documents as follows: Part 1 - Specification Part 2 - Schemas Part 3 - Transformation Rules Registry A Candidate Recommendation is a document that XII believes has been widely reviewed and satisfies the Working Group’s technical requirements. XII publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather implementation experience. Released on www.xbrl.org A Candidate Recommendation is a document that XII believes has been widely reviewed and satisfies the Working Group’s technical requirements. XII publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather implementation experience.

34. XBRL Ireland http://www.xbrl-ie.org