Company: SQM
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0000909037-25-000010
Chunk: 47

Company: CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: 6-K
Chunk 47
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4 and 2023. 3.27 Other provisions Provisions are recognized when: • The Company has a present, legal or constructive obligation as the result of a past event. • It is more likely than not that certain resources must be used, to settle the obligation. • A reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation. In the event that the provision or a portion of it is reimbursed, the reimbursement is recognized as a separate asset solely if there is certainty of income. The expense for any provision is presented net of any reimbursements in the consolidated statement of income. Should the effect of the value of money over time be significant, provisions are discounted using a discount rate before tax that reflects the liability’s specific risks. When a discount rate is used, the increase in the provision over time is recognized as a finance cost.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statement December 31, 2024 36 The Company’s policy is to maintain provisions to cover risks and expenses based on a better estimate to deal with possible or certain and quantifiable responsibilities from current litigation, compensations or obligations, pending expenses for which the amount has not yet been determined, collaterals and other similar guarantees for which the Company is responsible. These are recorded at the time the responsibility or the obligation that determines the compensation or payment is generated. 3.28 Obligations related to employee termination benefits and pension commitments Obligations towards the Company’s employees comply with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreements in force, which are formalized through collective employment agreements and individual employment. These obligations are measured using actuarial calculations, according to the projected unit credit method which considers such assumptions as the mortality rate, employee turnover, interest rates, retirement dates, effects related to increases in employees’ salaries, as well as the effects on variations in services derived from variations in the inflation rate. Actuarial losses and gains that may be generated by variations in defined, pre-established obligations are directly recorded in “Other Comprehensive Income”. Actuarial losses and gains have their origin in deviations between the estimate and the actual behavior of actuarial assumptions or in the reformulation of established actuarial assumptions. The above is applicable except in the United States, where our subsidiary, SQM North America has established pension plans for its retired employees that are calculated by measuring the projected obligation using a net salary progressive rate net of adjustments for inflation, mortality and turnover assumptions, deducting the resulting amounts at present value. The net balance of this obligation is presented under the “Non