Aggregate number of other equity instruments cancelled in sharebased payment arrangement.

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Number Of Instruments Authorised In Share-Based Payment Arrangement

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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The exercise price of outstanding share options.

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The number of share options exercised in a share-based payment arrangement.

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The number of share options expired in a share-based payment arrangement.

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The number of share options forfeited in a share-based payment arrangement.

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The number of share options granted in a share-based payment arrangement.

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The nominal value per share.

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Warrants and Share-based Payment - Warrant Activity - Additional Information (Detail)		3 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2018 EUR (€) shares	Jun. 30, 2018 EUR (€) shares	Jun. 30, 2018 kr / shares
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Share nominal value \| kr / shares			kr 1
Warrants [member]
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Aggregate number of other equity instruments granted	6,630,437
Aggregate number of other equity instruments cancelled \| shares	19,580	19,580
Aggregate number of other equity instruments exercised	1,918,670	317,825
Aggregate number of other equity instruments expired	2,168
Aggregate number of other equity instruments forfeited	210,328
Number of other equity instruments authorized	3,985,875	3,985,875
Share nominal value \| kr / shares			kr 1
Warrants [member] \| Bottom of range [member]
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Exercise price \| €	€ 6.48	€ 6.48
Warrants [member] \| Top of range [member]
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Exercise price \| €	€ 60.23	€ 60.23