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Litigations (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Litigations |
Schedule of changes in provision for litigations |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Environmental |  | Total of
|  | Tax litigation |  | Civil litigation |  | Labor litigation |  | litigation |  | litigation provision
Balance at December 31, 2018 |  | 729 |  | 166 |  | 459 |  | 3 |  | 1,357
Additions and reversals, net |  | 10 |  | 168 |  | 106 |  | 7 |  | 291
Payments |  | (33) |  | (58) |  | (110) |  | — |  | (201)
Indexation and interest |  | 9 |  | 42 |  | 18 |  | 1 |  | 70
Translation adjustment |  | (19) |  | (18) |  | (18) |  | — |  | (55)
Balance at December 31, 2019 |  | 696 |  | 300 |  | 455 |  | 11 |  | 1,462
Additions and reversals, net |  | 29 |  | 26 |  | 16 |  | 2 |  | 73
Payments |  | (23) |  | (30) |  | (59) |  | — |  | (112)
Indexation and interest |  | (85) |  | 30 |  | 26 |  | 1 |  | (28)
Translation adjustment |  | (132) |  | (66) |  | (103) |  | (3) |  | (304)
Balance at December 31, 2020 |  | 485 |  | 260 |  | 335 |  | 11 |  | 1,091
Current liabilities |  | 8 |  | 15 |  | 64 |  | — |  | 87
Non-current liabilities |  | 477 |  | 246 |  | 271 |  | 11 |  | 1,004
|  | 485 |  | 260 |  | 335 |  | 11 |  | 1,091
(i)Includes amounts regarding to social security claims that were classified as labor claims.
Schedule of contingent liabilities |
|  | December 31, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
Tax litigations |  | 6,911 |  | 8,040
Civil litigations |  | 1,348 |  | 1,518
Labor litigations |  | 563 |  | 773
Environmental litigations |  | 907 |  | 1,094
Total |  | 9,729 |  | 11,425
Schedule of judicial deposits |
|  | December 31, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
Tax litigations |  | 988 |  | 1,278
Civil litigations |  | 85 |  | 86
Labor litigations |  | 177 |  | 246
Environmental litigations |  | 18 |  | 41
Brumadinho event (note 23) |  | — |  | 1,482
Total |  | 1,268 |  | 3,133

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