“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per year equal to: (1) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that if no maturity is within three months before or after the Remaining Life of the Notes to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.
“Trustee” has the meaning provided in the Preamble.
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person as of any date, capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.
Section 1.04 Luxembourg Terms.
In this Indenture, where it relates to the Luxembourg Co-Issuer, a reference to:
a “winding-up”, “administration”, “liquidation”, “insolvency” or “dissolution” includes, without limitation, bankruptcy (faillite), insolvency, voluntary or judicial liquidation (liquidation volontaire ou judiciaire), composition with creditors (concordat préventif de la faillite), reprieve from payment (sursis de paiement), controlled management (gestion contrôlée), general settlement with creditors, reorganisation or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally;
a “receiver”, “administrative receiver”, “administrator, liquidator”, “compulsory manager” or the like includes, without limitation, a juge délégué, commissaire, juge-commissaire, liquidateur or curateur; and
a “person being unable or admitting inability to pay its debts” includes that person being in a state of cessation of payments (cessation de paiements).
Article Two
General Terms and Conditions of the Notes
Section 2.01 Designation and Principal Amount.
(a) The Notes are hereby authorized and designated the 1.750% Notes due 2026. The Notes may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture in an unlimited aggregate principal amount. The Notes issued on the date hereof pursuant to the terms of the Indenture shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, which amount shall be set forth in the written order of the Issuers for the authentication and delivery of the Notes pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture. The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of the Issuers and will rank on the same basis with all of the Issuers’ other senior unsecured indebtedness from time to time outstanding.
(b) In addition, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, the Issuers may issue, from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, Additional Notes having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Notes (except for the issue date, issue price, and, in some cases, the first payment of interest or interest accruing prior to the issue date of such Additional Notes). Any Additional Notes having such similar terms, together with the Notes issued on the date hereof, shall constitute a single series of Notes under the Indenture. No Additional Notes may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred with respect to the Notes.
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