Issuance Conditions of 42. Issue of Treasury Bonds - T-Bond 3.80 %, 09 - CZ0001000855

"Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2004 - 2009, 3.80 %"

The Ministry of Finance, in accordance with § 19 of Act No. 530/1990 Coll., on Bonds as amended, and § 1 of Act No. 120/2003 Coll., on state bond programme of settlement of a part of Czech Republic 2003 State Budget Deficit, determines issuance conditions of Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2004-2009, 3.80 %:

1. Basic characteristics of bonds:

   Issuer: Ministry of Finance on behalf of the Czech Republic
   Name: Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2004 - 2009, 3.80 %
   Name in short: ČR, 3.80 %, 09
   Serial number of issue: 42
   Face value: CZK 10 000
   Form of bond: bearer
   Type of bond: book-entered
   Date of issue: 22 March 2004
   Date of maturity: 22 March 2009
   Interest yield: coupon with fixed interest rate of 3.80 % p.a.
   Taxation of interest yields: under legal regulations of the Czech Republic
   ISIN: CZ 0001000855

2. Bonds are issued under § 1 of Act No. 120/2003 Coll., on state bond programme of settlement of a part of Czech Republic 2003 State Budget Deficit.

    

3. Bonds are on bearer and are issued in book-entered form. The holder register is kept by the Prague Securities Centre.

    

4. Bonds may be acquired by legal or natural entities with their seat or residence in the territory of the Czech Republic as well as in abroad. Repatriation of yields and of paid-up face value to abroad shall be carried out under legal regulations of the Czech Republic.

    

5. Issuer shall submit proposal for registration of bonds in the primary market of the Prague Stock Exchange, a.s. Transferability of bonds in the Prague Securities Centre shall commence as of the day of crediting the respective bonds in the accounts of first holders. The last day, when transfers of securities in holder accounts in the Prague Securities Centre shall be carried out, shall be 22 February 2009.

    

6. Bonds have fixed interest rate of 3.80 % p.a. Interest yields shall be paid once a year, each time by 22 March of the respective year. In case the day of the payment of yield falls on a non-working day, the payment shall be carried out on the first consecutive working day with no claim to yield for the payment deferred as above.

    

7. The decisive day for the payment of bond yield precedes by one month the day of maturity of bond yield. The ex-coupon date is the day following the decisive day, and it is fixed to be 23 February. The investor who is bond holder on 22 February receive the interest yield. The investor who is bond holder 22 February 2005 shall receive the interest yield for the first year.

    

8. The calculation of the proportional part of interest shall be made on the basis of a year with 360 days and of 12 months per 30 days (BCK - standard 30E/360). The proportional part of interest yield shall be added to the price of the respective bond as of the date of issue.

    

9. Bonds shall be issued per single tranches. Primary sale of 1. tranche shall be carried out in the form of auction organized by the Czech National Bank for a group of direct participants on 17 March 2004. Primary sale of subsequent tranches shall be carried out under the same conditions. The issuance period shall be terminated by the day of 22 February 2009. Other investors may participate in the auction through direct participants. The announcement on the auction and the list of direct participants shall be published in advance.

    

10. The total anticipated volume of the bond issue is CZK 45 000 000 000.

     

11. Detachment of the right to bond yield under § 11 of Act No. 530/1990 Coll., on Bonds as amended, cannot be applied.

     

12. The Ministry of Finance declares that it owes to each bond holder the face value of the respective bond. The bonds shall be paid up in the face value by the day of 22 March 2009. Also, the reckoning of interest shall terminate on the same day. The face value of the bond along with the last interest yield shall be paid to the bond-holder investor on 22 February 2009. In case the day of the payment of principal falls on a non-working day, the payment shall be carried out on the first consecutive day with no claim to yield for the payment deferred as above.

     

13. All rights connected with bonds and coupons issued in relation therewith shall become statute-barred with the expiration of ten years since the day when such rights could be applied for the first time (§ 23 of Act No. 530/1990 Coll., on Bonds as amended).

     

14. The Ministry of Finance pledges to ensure the payment of bond interest yields and to pay up the face value of bonds to the holders thereof in accordance with the present issuance conditions. The place of payment is the Czech National Bank. The place of payment shall publish the method by which the payment of the coupon and the settlement of the face value shall be carried out.

     

15. The bonds are direct, unconditional and unsubordinated obligations of the Czech Republic that are of the same standard with all other existing and future direct, unconditional and unsubordinated obligations of the Czech Republic.

     

16. Announcements for the public relating to these bonds shall be published in Hospodářské noviny or in another daily of similar orientation currently available in the Czech Republic.

     

17. These issuance conditions may be translated into foreign languages. In case of variance between various language versions of issuance conditions, the Czech version shall be decisive.

Minister:
Mgr. Bohuslav Sobotka