Commodity price risk is the risk of incurring a loss due to changes in commodity prices, generated by maintaining open positions in particular types of goods.
The objective of commodity price risk management is to reduce potential losses resulting from changes in commodity prices to the acceptable level through manipulating the structure of statement of financial position and off-balance sheet commodity items.
Commodity price risk is managed by imposing limits on instruments generating the commodity price risk, monitoring their use and reporting the risk level.
The effect of commodity price risk on the Group's financial position is immaterial. As at 31 December 2013 the capital requirement in this respect did not exceed PLN one thousand.