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Dividends on Ordinary Capital (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
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Summary of Dividends on Ordinary Capital |
|  | € million |  |  | € million |  |  | € million |
Dividends on ordinary capital during the year |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
PLC dividends |  |  | (1,911 | ) |  |  | (1,871 | ) |  |  | (1,819 | )
NV dividends (a) |  |  | (2,389 | ) |  |  | (2,352 | ) |  |  | (2,262 | )
|  |  | (4,300 | ) |  |  | (4,223 | ) |  |  | (4,081 | )
(a) | Amount relates to NV dividends paid prior to Unification.

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