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Capital Management and Solvency - Schedule of Total Distributable Items (Detail) - EUR (€) € in Millions | Dec. 31, 2019 | Dec. 15, 2019 | Dec. 31, 2018
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Distributable items |  |  |  |
Equity attributable to shareholders | € 22,457 |  | € 19,518 |
Non-distributable items: |  |  |  |
Share capital | (323) |  | (322) |
Legal reserves |  | € (8,565) | (5,890) | [1]
At December 31 | € 13,569 |  | € 13,307 |
[1] | The legal reserves in respect of the foreign currency translation reserve (FCTR), group companies and the positive revaluations in the revaluation reserves, cannot be freely distributed.

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