Form Tr-1 - Standard Form For Notification Of Major Holdings (Page 5 of 6) in pdf

Notes

. Persons completing this form should have regard to the requirements of the Transparency (Directive 2004/109/EC) Regulations

2007 as amended (the “Regulations”), the Central Bank of Ireland’s Transparency Rules (the “Transparency Rules”) and Commission

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/761 of 17 December 2014.

Full name of the legal entity and other identifying specification of the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate

(e.g. address, LEI, domestic number identity).

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Other reason for the notification could be voluntary notifications, changes of attribution of the nature of the holding (e.g. expiring of

financial instruments) or acting in concert.

This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the natural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting

rights in the cases provided for in Regulation 15(b) to (h) of the Regulations (Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC); or (c) the

holder of financial instruments referred to in Regulation 17(1) of the Regulations (Article 13(1) of Directive 2004/109/EC).

As the disclosure of cases of acting in concert may vary due to the specific circumstances (e.g. same or different total positions of the

parties, entering or exiting of acting in concert by a single party) the standard form does not provide for a specific method how to

notify cases of acting in concert.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC),

the following list is provided as an indication of the persons who should be mentioned:

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the natural

person or legal entity that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person

or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of the Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the

natural person or legal entity holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares its

intention of exercising them, and natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these conditions;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the natural

person or legal entity who has a life interest in shares if that person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the

shares and the natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is created;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the

controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under Regulation 14 of the

Regulations (Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC), under letters (a) to (d) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive

2004/109/EC) or under a combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the deposit

taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the

depositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the natural

person or legal entity that controls the voting rights;

in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Regulation 15 of the Regulations (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC), the proxy

holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder

allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion (e.g. management companies).

Applicable in the cases provided for in Regulation 15(b) to (h) of the Regulations (Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC).

This should be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Regulation

15 of the Regulations (Article 10 Directive 2004/109/EC) unless the percentage of voting rights held by the shareholder is lower than

the lowest notifiable threshold for the disclosure of voting rights holdings in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations and

the Transparency Rules.

The date on which threshold is crossed or reached should be the date on which the acquisition or disposal took place or the other

reason triggered the notification obligation. For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.

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