Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the “Financial Promotion Order”), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.”) of the Financial Promotion Order, (iii) are outside the United Kingdom, or (iv) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the “FSMA”)) in connection with the issue or sale of any bonds may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This document is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons. This document, the prospectus supplement and the base prospectus have been prepared on the basis that all offers of the bonds in any Member State of the European Economic Area will be made pursuant to an exemption under Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the ““Prospectus Regulation””) from the requirement to produce or publish a prospectus. Accordingly, any person making or intending to make any offer within a Member State of the bonds may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for EDC or any underwriter to produce or publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation in relation to such offer. Neither this document nor the prospectus supplement nor the base prospectus has been approved as a prospectus by a competent authority in any Member State and accordingly none is a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation. If and to the extent that this announcement is communicated in, or the offer of the bonds to which it relates is made in, any Member State, this announcement and the offer are only addressed to and directed at persons in that Member State who are qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Regulation and must not be acted upon by other persons in that relevant state. |