Petrobras (PBR)

19.3. Healthcare benefits

a) Assistência Multidisciplinar de Saúde (AMS)

Petrobras and its subsidiaries Petrobras Distribuidora S.A., Petroquisa, and Alberto Pasqualini - Refap S.A., maintain a healthcare benefit plan (AMS), which offers defined benefits and covers all employees of the companies in Brazil (active and inactive) and their dependents. The plan is managed by the Company, with the employees contributing a fixed amount to cover the principal risks and a portion of the costs relating to other types of coverage in accordance with participation tables defined by certain parameters including salary levels, in addition to the pharmacy benefit that provides special terms for AMS plan holders to purchase certain medications in registered pharmacies, distributed throughout the country.

The commitment of the Company relating to future benefits due to the employees participating in the plan is calculated annually by an independent actuary, based on the method of Projected Credit Unit, in a manner similar to the calculations made for the commitments with pensions and retirements, described earlier.

The medical assistance plan is not covered by guaranteeing assets. The payment of the benefits is made by the Company based on the costs incurred by the participants.