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4.3 Business Days<br />
If the date for any payment in respect of any Note is not a Business Day, such payment shall not<br />
be made until the next succeeding day which is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into<br />
the next calendar month, in which case the payment shall be made on the immediately preceding<br />
Business Day.<br />
"Business Day" means any TARGET Day or, if such TARGET Day is not a day on which banks<br />
are open for general business and foreign exchange markets settle payments in Frankfurt am<br />
Main, Munich, Dublin, Luxembourg and London, the following TARGET Day on which banks<br />
are open for general business and foreign exchange markets settle payments in Frankfurt am<br />
Main, Munich, Dublin, Luxembourg and London unless that day falls in the next month, in<br />
which case the date will be the preceding TARGET Day on which banks are open for general<br />
business and foreign exchange markets settle payments in Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Dublin,<br />
Luxembourg and London.<br />
"TARGET Day" means a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross<br />
settlement Express Transfer system is open for settlement of payments in euro.<br />
5. INTEREST<br />
5.1 Accrual of Interest<br />
Interest will accrue on the Note Outstanding Principal Amount (as defined herein), in respect of<br />
the first Interest Payment Date, the period from, and including, the Issue Date and ending on, but<br />
excluding, the first Interest Payment Date and, in respect of any subsequent Interest Payment<br />
Date, the period from, and including, the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and<br />
ending on, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date (each an "Interest Period") at the<br />
Applicable Rate of Interest (as defined in Condition 5.4).<br />
5.2 Outstanding Principal Amount<br />
As of any Payment Date between the Issue Date and the Final Maturity Date (a) the "Note<br />
Outstanding Principal Amount" of any Note will be an amount equal to the Initial Principal<br />
Amount of such Note as reduced by (i) the aggregate amount of payments or repayments, if any,<br />
of principal made in respect of such Note on or before such date and (ii) the allocation of Issuer<br />
Payments to such Note on or before such date and (b) the "Outstanding Principal Amount"<br />
will be, with respect to each Class of Notes, the aggregate Note Outstanding Principal Amounts<br />
of such Class of Notes.<br />
5.3 Interest Payment Dates and Interest Periods<br />
Interest on the Notes will be payable on 28 May 2001 and, thereafter, quarterly in arrear on the<br />
28 th day of February, May, August and November in each year, subject to adjustment of non-<br />
Business Days as further described herein (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date" or<br />
"Payment Date").<br />
5.4 Rate of Interest<br />
The rate of interest applicable to the Outstanding Principal Amount of a Note (the "Applicable<br />
Rate of Interest") for each Interest Period shall be the aggregate of the Applicable Margin plus<br />
the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (" EURIBOR") for three month euro deposits (with respect to<br />
the first Interest Period, interpolated between five and six months) which appears on the Bridge<br />
Telerate Page designated 248 on the Associated Press-Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other<br />
page as may replace that page on that service, or such other service as may be nominated by the<br />
Interest Determination Agent as the information vendor, for the purpose of displaying<br />
comparable rates) as of 11.00 a.m. (Brussels time) determined by the Interest Determination<br />
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