Contingencies and commitments

Notes

Contractual obligations and commitments

We entered into lease agreements for office and laboratories which qualify as operating leases. We also have certain purchase commitments principally with CRO subcontractors and certain collaboration partners.

On 31 March 2018 we had outstanding obligations for future minimum rent payments and purchase commitments, which become due as follows:

(thousands of €)

Total

Less than 1 year

1–3 years

3–5 years

More than 5 years

Operating lease obligations

25,831

4,349

7,897

5,887

7,698

Purchase commitments

68,930

54,983

13,259

688

Total contractual obligations & commitments

94,761

59,332

21,156

6,575

7,698

On 31 December 2017, we had outstanding obligations for future minimum rent payments and purchase commitments, which become due as follows:

(thousands of €)

Total

Less than 1 year

1–3 years

3–5 years

More than 5 years

Operating lease obligations

26,346

4,150

7,820

6,010

8,366

Purchase commitments

65,246

53,010

11,233

1,002

Total contractual obligations & commitments

91,592

57,160

19,053

7,012

8,366

In addition to the tables above, we have a contractual cost sharing obligation related to our collaboration agreement with Gilead for filgotinib. The contractual cost sharing commitment amounted to €111.6 million at 31 March 2018 (€129.0 million at 31 December 2017), for which we have direct purchase commitments of €6.4 million at 31 March 2018 (€10.1 million at 31 December 2017) reflected in the tables above.

Contingent liabilities and assets

We refer to our annual report 2017 for contingent liabilities and assets.