Proxy voting service enhancement: Change from U.S. Eastern Time (EST) to Central European Time (CET)

31.10.2016

Clearstream Banking1 would like to inform customers that, effective

4 November 2016, at 19:00 Central European Time

All notifications of meeting events will indicate Response Deadline Date/Time (RDDT), Early Response Deadline Date/Time (EARD) and Market Deadline Date/Time (MKDT) in Central European Time (CET). Currently, these are indicated in U.S. Eastern Time (EST).

As part of our continued efforts to improve customer services, this will align notifications of meeting events with all other corporate actions related notifications where times are indicated in CET.

Impacted events

All new notifications of meeting events (NEWM) sent after 19:00 CET on 4 November 2016 will indicate deadlines in CET. All existing meeting event notifications will be resent via replacement message (REPL) indicating the new deadline dates and times in CET format.

Further information

For further information, please contact the Clearstream Banking Client Services or your Relationship Officer.

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1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B-9248, and Clearstream Banking AG (for Clearstream Banking Frankfurt (CBF) customers using CreationOnline), registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.