Recital 2

(2)Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements ³ requires that the historical financial information provided by third country issuers in prospectuses for offer of securities to the public or the admission of securities to trading on a regulated market be prepared in accordance with IFRS adopted pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 or with the national accounting standards of a third country equivalent to these standards. If historical financial information was not drawn up in accordance with such standards it must be presented in the prospectus in the form of restated financial statements.