1.In Article 6, the following paragraphs shall be added: '4. where (a) the securities or the shares of the issuer or certificates representing such shares have been officially listed in another Member State for not less than three years before the application for admission to official listing; (b) to the satisfaction of the competent authorities of the Member State in which admission to official listing is sought, the competent authorities of the Member State or Member States in which the issuer's securities are officially listed have confirmed that during the preceding three years or during the entire time the issuer's securities have been listed, if that is less than three years, the issuer has complied with all the requirements concerning information and admission to listing imposed by Community Directives on companies the securities of which are officially listed; (c) all the following are published in the manner stipulated in Articles 20 and 21 (1): (i) a document containing the following information: - a statement that application has been made for admission of the securities to official listing. In the case of shares, the statement shall also specify the number and class of the shares in question and give a concise description of the rights attaching thereto. In the case of certificates representing shares the statement shall also specify the rights attaching to the original securities and give information concerning the possibility of converting the certificates into original securities and the procedure for that conversion. In the case of debt securities the statement shall also specify the nominal amount of the loan (if that amount is not fixed, a statement to that effect shall be made) and the conditions and terms of the loan; except in the case of continuous issues, the issue and redemption prices and the nominal interest rate (if several interest rates are provided for, an indication of the conditions governing changes in the rate); in the case of convertible debt securities, exchangeable debt securities, debt securities with warrants or warrants the statement shall also specify the nature of the shares offered by way of conversion, exchange or subscription, the rights attaching thereto, the conditions of and procedures for conversion, exchange or subscription and details of the circumstances in which they may be amended, - details of any significant change or development which has occurred since the date to which the documents referred to in (ii) and (iii) relate, - information specific to the market in the country in which admission is sought concerning in particular the income tax system, the paying agent for the issuer and the ways in which notices to investors are published, and - a declaration by the persons responsible for the information given in accordance with the first three indents that such information is in accordance with the facts and includes no omissions likely to affect the import of the document; (ii) the latest annual report, the latest audited annual accounts (where the issuer prepares both own and consolidated annual accounts both sets of accounts shall be supplied. The competent authorities may, however, allow the issuer to supply either his own or the consolidated accounts, on condition that the accounts which are not supplied do not provide any significant additional information) and the issuer's latest half-yearly statement for the year in question where it has already been published; (iii) any listing particulars, prospectus or equivalent document published by the issuer in the 12 months preceding the application for admission to official listing; and (iv) the following information where it is not already given in the documents provided for in (i), (ii) and (iii): - the composition of the company's administrative, management and supervisory bodies and the functions performed by individual members, - general information about the capital, - the current situation on the basis of the latest information communicated to the issuer under Council Directive 88/627/EEC of 12 December 1988 on the information to be published when a major holding in a listed company is acquired or disposed of (1), and - any reports concerning the last published annual accounts by the official auditors required by the national law of the Member State within the territory of which the issuer's registered office is situated; (d) the notices, bills, posters and documents announcing the admission of the securities to official listing and indicating the essential characteristics of those securities and all other documents relating to their admission and intended for publication by the issuer or on his behalf state that the information referred to in (c) exists and indicate where it is being or will be published in the manner prescribed in Article 20; and (e) the information referred to in (c) and the notices, bills, posters and documents referred to in (d) have been sent to the competent authorities before being made available to the public; OJ No L 348, 17. 12. 1988, p. 62.'5. where companies the shares in which have already been dealt in for at least the preceding two years on a second-tier market, regulated and supervised by authorities recognized by public bodies, seek to have their securities admitted to official listing in the same Member State and, in the opinion of the competent authorities, information equivalent in substance to that required by this Directive is available to investors before the date on which admission to official listing becomes effective.';
2.The following Article 6a shall be inserted: 'Article 6a The information referred to in Article 6 (4) (c) and (d) shall be published in the official language or one of the official languages of the Member State in which admission to official listing is sought or in another language, provided that in the Member State in question that other language is customary in the sphere of finance, accepted by the competent authorities and, where appropriate, such further conditions as they may impose are complied with'.