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S) OTHER EXPENSES, NET<br />

CEMEX, S.A.B. DE C.V. AND SUBSIDIARIES<br />

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements – (Continued)<br />

As of December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008<br />

(Millions of Mexican pesos)<br />

The caption consists primarily of revenues and expenses not directly related to CEMEX’s main activity, or which are of an unusual or nonrecurring<br />

nature. Other expenses, net in 2010, 2009 and 2008, consisted of the following:<br />

2010 2009 2008<br />

Impairment losses (notes 8, 9B, 10 and 11)....................................................... Ps (1,904) (889) (21,125)<br />

Restructuring costs (note 13)............................................................................. (897) (1,100) (3,141)<br />

Charitable contributions .................................................................................... (385) (264) (174)<br />

Current and deferred ESPS (note 2M)............................................................... (5) (8) 2,283<br />

Results from the sale of assets and others, net................................................... (3,481) (3,268) 754<br />

Other expenses, net...................................................................................... Ps (6,672) (5,529) (21,403)<br />

T) EXECUTIVE STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (note 17)<br />

Beginning in 2009, CEMEX applies MFRS D-8, “Share-based payments” (“MFRS D-8”), to recognize its executive stock-based<br />

compensation programs. Until 2008, CEMEX applied International Financial Reporting Standard 2, “Shared-based payments.” There were no<br />

effects from the adoption of MFRS D-8 in 2009.<br />

Stock awards based on CEMEX shares granted to executives are defined as equity instruments, when services received from employees are<br />

settled delivering CEMEX’s shares; or as liability instruments, when CEMEX commits to make cash payments to the executives on the<br />

exercise date of the awards based on changes in the CEMEX’s own stock (intrinsic value). The cost of equity instruments represents their<br />

estimated fair value at the date of grant and is recognized in the income statement during the period in which the exercise rights of the<br />

employees become vested. In respect of liability instruments, these instruments are valued at their estimated fair value at each reporting date,<br />

recognizing the changes in fair value through the income statement. CEMEX determines the estimated fair value of options using the<br />

binomial financial option-pricing model.<br />

U) EMISSION RIGHTS<br />

In some countries where CEMEX operates, such as member countries of the EU, governments have established mechanisms aimed to reduce<br />

carbon-dioxide emissions (“CO2”), by means of which, industries releasing CO2 must submit to the environmental authority at the end of a<br />

compliance period, emission rights for a volume equivalent to the tons of CO2 released. In addition, the United Nations Framework<br />

Convention on Climate Change (“UNFCCC”) grants Certified Emission Reductions (“CERs”) to qualified CO2 emission reduction projects.<br />

CERs may be used in specified proportions to settle emission rights obligations in the EU. CEMEX actively participates in the development<br />

of projects aimed to reduce CO2 emissions. Some of these projects have been awarded with CERs.<br />

In the absence of a MFRS or an IFRS that defines an accounting treatment for these schemes, CEMEX accounts for the effects associated<br />

with CO2 emission reduction mechanisms as follows:<br />

Emission rights granted by governments are not recognized in the balance sheet considering their cost is zero;<br />

Revenues from the sale of any surplus of emission rights are recognized decreasing cost of sales; in the case of forward sale transactions,<br />

revenues are recognized upon physical delivery of the emission certificates;<br />

Emission rights and/or CERs acquired to hedge current CO2 emissions are recognized as intangible assets at cost, and are further<br />

amortized to cost of sales during the compliance period; in the case of forward purchases, assets are recognized upon physical reception<br />

of the emission certificates;<br />

CEMEX accrues a provision against cost of sales when the estimated annual emissions of CO2 are expected to exceed the number of<br />

emission rights, net of any benefit obtained through swap transactions of emission rights for CERs;<br />

CERs received from the UNFCCC are recognized as intangible assets at their development cost, which are attributable mainly to legal<br />

expenses incurred with authorities in the process of obtaining such CERs; and<br />

CEMEX does not maintain emission rights, CERs and/or forward transactions for trading purposes.<br />

The combined effect of the use of alternate fuels that help reduce the emission of CO2 and the downturn in produced cement volumes in the<br />

EU, has generated a surplus of emission rights held over the estimated CO2 emissions. From the consolidated surplus of emission rights,<br />

during 2010, 2009 and 2008, CEMEX sold an aggregate amount of approximately 19.4 million certificates, receiving revenues of<br />

approximately Ps1,417, Ps961 and Ps3,666, respectively. As of December 31, 2010, there were forward sale commitments for approximately<br />

Ps319 with settlement in March 2011.<br />

F-17

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