1.The issuer who initiates the corporate event shall provide intermediaries the information about the corporate event in a timely manner, no later than on the same business day on which it announces the corporate event under applicable law.
2.When the intermediary processes and transmits information on corporate events, the intermediary shall ensure, where necessary, that the shareholders have sufficient time to react to the information received in order to comply with the issuer deadline or record date.
The first intermediary and any other intermediary receiving the information regarding a corporate event shall transmit such information to the next intermediary in the chain without delay and no later than by the close of the same business day as it received the information. Where the intermediary receives the information after 16.00 during its business day, it shall transmit the information without delay and no later than by 10.00 of the next business day.
Where the position in the relevant share changes after the first transmission, the first intermediary and any other intermediary in the chain shall additionally transmit the information to the new shareholders in its books, according to end of day positions on each business day, until the record date.
3.The last intermediary shall transmit to the shareholder the information about the corporate event without delay and no later than by the close of the same business day as it received the information. Where the intermediary receives the information after 16.00 during its business day, it shall transmit the information without delay and no later than by 10.00 of the next business day. In addition, it shall confirm the shareholder's entitlement to participate in the corporate event without undue delay and on such time as to comply with the issuer deadline or record date, as applicable.
4.Each intermediary shall transmit to the issuer any information regarding shareholder action without delay after it received the information, following a process allowing for compliance with the issuer deadline or record date.
Any additional requirements pertaining to shareholder action, which the issuer requires the shareholder to provide under applicable law, and which cannot be processed as machine-readable or straight-through processing as provided for in Article 2(3), shall be transmitted by the intermediary without delay and in time as to comply with the issuer deadline or record date.
The last intermediary shall not set a deadline requiring any shareholder action earlier than three business days prior to the issuer deadline or record date. The last intermediary may caution the shareholder as regards the risks attached to changes in the share position close to the record date.
5.The confirmation of the receipt of votes cast electronically as provided for in Article 7(1) shall be provided to the person that cast the vote immediately after the cast of the votes.
The confirmation of recording and counting of votes as provided for in Article 7(2) shall be provided by the issuer in a timely manner and no later than 15 days after the request or general meeting, whichever occurs later, unless the information is already available.
6.The request to disclose shareholder identity made by an issuer or third party nominated by the issuer shall be transmitted by intermediaries, in accordance with the scope of the request, to the next intermediary in the chain without delay and no later than by the close of the same business day as the receipt of the request. Where the intermediary receives the request after 16.00 during its business day, it shall transmit the information without delay and no later than by 10.00 of the next business day.
The response to the request to disclose shareholder identity shall be provided and transmitted by each intermediary to the addressee defined in the request without delay and no later than during the business day immediately following the record date or the date of receipt of the request by the responding intermediary, whichever occurs later.
The deadline referred to in the second subparagraph shall not apply to responses to requests or those parts of requests, as applicable, which cannot be processed as machine-readable and straight-through processing, as provided for in Article 2(3). It shall also not apply to responses to requests that are received by the intermediary more than seven business days after the record date. In such cases, the response shall be provided and transmitted by the intermediary without delay and in any event by the issuer deadline.
7.The deadlines referred to in paragraphs 1 to 6 shall apply, to the extent necessary, to any cancellations or updates of the relevant information.
8.The intermediary shall time stamp all transmissions referred to in this Article.