Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements (Text with EEA relevance)
Modified by
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 1787/2006of 4 December 2006amending Commission Regulation (EC) 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements, 32006R1787, December 5, 2006
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 211/2007of 27 February 2007amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards financial information in prospectuses where the issuer has a complex financial history or has made a significant financial commitment(Text with EEA relevance), 32007R0211, February 28, 2007
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 1289/2008of 12 December 2008amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards elements related to prospectuses and advertisements(Text with EEA relevance), 32008R1289, December 19, 2008
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 311/2012of 21 December 2011amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards elements related to prospectuses and advertisements(Text with EEA relevance), 32012R0311, April 13, 2012
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 486/2012of 30 March 2012amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 as regards the format and the content of the prospectus, the base prospectus, the summary and the final terms and as regards the disclosure requirements(Text with EEA relevance), 32012R0486, June 9, 2012
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 862/2012of 4 June 2012amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 as regards information on the consent to use of the prospectus, information on underlying indexes and the requirement for a report prepared by independent accountants or auditors(Text with EEA relevance), 32012R0862, September 22, 2012
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 621/2013of 21 March 2013correcting the Polish version of Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements(Text with EEA relevance), 32013R0621, June 28, 2013
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 759/2013of 30 April 2013amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 as regards the disclosure requirements for convertible and exchangeable debt securities(Text with EEA relevance), 32013R0759, August 8, 2013
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1604of 12 June 2015amending Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards elements related to prospectuses and advertisements(Text with EEA relevance), 32015R1604, September 25, 2015
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/301of 30 November 2015supplementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for approval and publication of the prospectus and dissemination of advertisements and amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004(Text with EEA relevance), 32016R0301, March 4, 2016
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/980of 14 March 2019supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the format, content, scrutiny and approval of the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004(Text with EEA relevance), 32019R0980, June 21, 2019
Corrected by
  • Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements, 32004R0809R(01), June 16, 2004
Commission regulation (EC) No 809/2004of 29 April 2004implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements(Text with EEA relevance) CHAPTER ISUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS
Article 1Subject matterThis Regulation lays down:1.the format of prospectus referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2003/71/EC;2.the minimum information requirements to be included in a prospectus provided for in Article 7 of Directive 2003/71/EC;3.the method of publication referred to in Article 10 of Directive 2003/71/EC;4.the modalities according to which information can be incorporated by reference in a prospectus provided for in Article 11 of Directive 2003/71/EC;5.the publication methods of a prospectus in order to ensure that a prospectus is publicly available according to Article 14 of Directive 2003/71/EC;6.the methods of dissemination of advertisements referred to in Article 15 of Directive 2003/71/EC.
Article 2DefinitionsFor the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply in addition to those laid down in Directive 2003/71/EC:1."schedule" means a list of minimum information requirements adapted to the particular nature of the different types of issuers and/or the different securities involved;2."building block" means a list of additional information requirements, not included in one of the schedules, to be added to one or more schedules, as the case may be, depending on the type of instrument and/or transaction for which a prospectus or base prospectus is drawn up;3."risk factors" means a list of risks which are specific to the situation of the issuer and/or the securities and which are material for taking investment decisions;4."special purpose vehicle" means an issuer whose objects and purposes are primarily the issue of securities;5."asset backed securities" means securities which:(a)represent an interest in assets, including any rights intended to assure servicing, or the receipt or timeliness of receipts by holders of assets of amounts payable there under;or(b)are secured by assets and the terms of which provide for payments which relate to payments or reasonable projections of payments calculated by reference to identified or identifiable assets;6."umbrella collective investment undertaking" means a collective investment undertaking invested in one or more collective investment undertakings, the asset of which is composed of separate class(es) or designation(s) of securities;7."property collective investment undertaking" means a collective investment undertaking whose investment objective is the participation in the holding of property in the long term;8."public international body" means a legal entity of public nature established by an international treaty between sovereign States and of which one or more Member States are members;9."advertisement" means announcements:(a)relating to an specific offer to the public of securities or to an admission to trading on a regulated market;and(b)aiming to specifically promote the potential subscription or acquisition of securities;10."profit forecast" means a form of words which expressly states or by implication indicates a figure or a minimum or maximum figure for the likely level of profits or losses for the current financial period and/or financial periods subsequent to that period, or contains data from which a calculation of such a figure for future profits or losses may be made, even if no particular figure is mentioned and the word "profit" is not used;11."profit estimate" means a profit forecast for a financial period which has expired and for which results have not yet been published;12."regulated information" means all information which the issuer, or any person who has applied for the admission of securities to trading on a regulated market without the issuer’s consent, is required to disclose under Directive 2001/34/EC or under Article 6 of Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the CouncilOJ L 96, 12.4.2003, p. 16;13."Rights issue", means any issue of statutory pre-emption rights which allow for the subscription of new shares and is addressed only to existing shareholders. Rights issue also includes an issue where such statutory pre-emption rights are disabled and replaced by an instrument or a provision conferring near identical rights to existing shareholders when those rights meet the following conditions:(a)shareholders are offered the rights free of charge;(b)shareholders are entitled to take up new shares in proportion to their existing holdings, or, in the case of other securities giving a right to participate in the share issue, in proportion to their entitlements to the underlying shares;(c)the rights to subscribe are negotiable and transferable or, if not, the shares arising from the rights are sold at the end of the offer period for the benefit of those shareholders who did not take up those entitlements;(d)the issuer is able, as regards the entitlements referred to in point (b), to impose limits or restrictions or exclusions and make arrangements it considers appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements and requirements laid down by law or by a regulatory authority in any country or territory;(e)the minimum period during which shares may be taken up is the same as the period for the exercise of statutory pre-emption rights laid down in Article 29(3) of Council Directive 77/91/EECOJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 1.;(f)the rights lapse at the expiration of the exercise period.
Article 2aCategories of information in the base prospectus and the final terms1.The categories set out in Annex XX shall determine the degree of flexibility by which the information can be given in the base prospectus or the final terms. The categories shall be defined as follows:(a)"Category A" means the relevant information which shall be included in the base prospectus. This information cannot be left in blank for later insertion in the final terms;(b)"Category B" means that the base prospectus shall include all the general principles related to the information required, and only the details which are unknown at the time of the approval of the base prospectus can be left in blank for later insertion in the final terms;(c)"Category C" means that the base prospectus may contain a reserved space for later insertion for the information which was not known at the time of the approval of the base prospectus. Such information shall be inserted in the final terms.2.Where the conditions of Article 16(1) of Directive 2003/71/EC apply, a supplement shall be required.Where those conditions do not apply, the issuer, the offeror or the person asking for admission to trading on a regulated market shall publish a notice of the change.

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