1.When a prospectus complying with Article 11 or 12 is or must be published, the advertisements, notices, posters and documents announcing the public offer distributed or made available to members of the public by the person making the public offer, must be communicated in advance to the bodies designated in accordance with Article 14, if such bodies carry out prior scrutiny of public offer prospectuses. In such a case, the latter shall determine whether the documents concerned should be checked before publication. Such documents must state that a prospectus exists and indicate where it is published.
2.If Member States authorize the dissemination of the documents referred to in paragraph 1 before the prospectus is available, those documents must state that a prospectus will be published and indicate where members of the public will be able to obtain it.