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Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Payables and Accruals [Abstract] |
Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities |
12. | OTHER PAYABLES AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES
Other payables and accrued liabilities consisted of the following:
|  | December 31, 2014 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Employee related liabilities |  |  | 273 |  |  |  | 383 |
Employee compensated absences |  |  | 114 |  |  |  | 128 |
Taxes other than income taxes |  |  | 68 |  |  |  | 85 |
Advances |  |  | 33 |  |  |  | 32 |
Payables to equity-method investments |  |  | 50 |  |  |  | 81 |
Obligations for capacity rights |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 3 |
Derivative instruments |  |  | 73 |  |  |  | 4 |
Provision for restructuring |  |  | 32 |  |  |  | 65 |
Current portion of pension |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 12 |
Royalties |  |  | 26 |  |  |  | 37 |
Others |  |  | 161 |  |  |  | 107 |
Total |  |  | 841 |  |  |  | 937 |
The terms of the agreement for the inception of Numonyx, a company created in 2007 from the Company’s and Intel’s flash memory business key assets and sold in 2010 to Micron Technology Inc., included rights granted to Numonyx to use certain assets retained by the Company. As at December 31, 2014 and 2013 the value of such rights totaled $3 million and $6 million respectively, of which $2 million and $3 million respectively were reported as current liabilities. Derivative instruments are further described in Note 23. Other payables and accrued liabilities also include individually insignificant amounts as of December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

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