7 Inventories
Inventories
| Euro 000s | 30.9.2009 | 30.9.2008 | |||
| Raw materials and supplies | 30 323 | 30 533 | |||
| Unfinished and finished products and services and merchandise | 20 465 | 26 243 | |||
| Advance payments | — | 312 | |||
| 50 788 | 57 088 | ||||
There were no restrictions on disposal or other encumbrances (apart from retentions of title). Write-downs of Euro 730 thousand were recognised on inventories (previous year: Euro 499 thousand; including write-backs of Euro 609 thousand). Write-downs were based on the inventory turnover rates of the assets in question.

