Regulation or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation, in each case in relation to such offer. Neither the Republic nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities to any legal entity which is not a “qualified investor” as defined in the Prospectus Regulation. Neither the Republic nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by the underwriters, which constitute the final placement of the securities contemplated in this Pricing Supplement and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. The expression “Prospectus Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended or superseded).
The securities are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in any Member State of the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, “IDD”), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of the Prospectus Regulation. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the securities or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the securities or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
Each person in the EEA who receives any communication in respect of, or who acquires any securities under, the offers to the public contemplated in this Pricing Supplement and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, or to whom the securities are otherwise made available, will be deemed to have represented, warranted, acknowledged and agreed to and with each underwriter and the Republic that it and any person on whose behalf it acquires securities is: (1) a “qualified investor” within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Prospectus Regulation; and (2) not a “retail investor” (as defined above).
Any distributor subject to the FCA Handbook Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook (the “UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules”) (for the purposes of this paragraph, a “distributor”), subsequently offering, selling or recommending the securities is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the securities and determining the appropriate distribution channels for the purposes of the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules. Neither the Republic nor any of the underwriters make any representations or warranties as to a distributor’s compliance with the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules.
This Pricing Supplement and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement have been prepared on the basis that the requirement under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”) and the Prospectus Regulation, as it forms part of United Kingdom (“UK”) domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA”) (the “UK Prospectus Regulation”) to publish or produce a prospectus for offers of securities does not apply. Neither the Republic nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities to any legal entity which is not a “qualified investor” as defined in the UK Prospectus Regulation. Neither the Republic nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by the underwriters, which constitute the final placement of the securities contemplated in this Pricing Supplement and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.
The securities are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the UK. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the IDD, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of the Prospectus Regulation as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA. No key information document required by the PRIIPs Regulation, as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK PRIIPs Regulation”), for offering or selling the securities or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and the securities will not be offered or sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the UK.
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