Prospectus for the Public Offering of Securities in Europe

Dirk Van Gerven is a Brussels partner with the Benelux law firm of NautaDutilh and a member of the Brussels and New York Bars. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate and financial law, including securities regulation. He is in charge of continuing legal education for the Dutch-speaking Bar Association of Brussels and has published widely in the fields of corporate and financial law. Since 2003, he has been a member of the supervisory board of Belgium's Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission.

Part II. Application in the EU Member States: 1. Austria Florian Khol and Viktoria Ebner; 2. Bulgaria Raina Dimitrova and Angel Angelov; 3. Cyprus Alexandros Tsadiras; 4. Finland Mikko Heinonen and Klaus Ilmonen; 5. France Jean-Marc Desache; 6. Germany Andreas Wüsthoff and Boris Kläsener; 7. Ireland Michael A. Greene and Cian McCourt; 8. Italy Francesco Gianni, Andrea Marani and Gaudiana Giusti; 9. Malta Louis De Gabriele; 10. Romania Iuliana Craiciu; 11. Slovenia Jurij Dolžan and Eva Pergarec; 12. Spain Ramiro Rivera and Augusto Piñel; 13. Sweden Jan Andersson; Part III. Application in the EEA Member States: 14. Iceland Ólafur Arinbjörn Sigurðsson; 15. Liechtenstein Andreas Schurti and Alexander Appel; Part IV. Annexes: Annex I. Council Directive (EC) No 2003/71 of 4 November 2003 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading (the Prospectus Directive); Annex II. Commission Regulation (EC) No 809/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing the Prospectus Directive as regards information contained in prospectuses as well as the format, incorporation by reference and publication of such prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements (the Prospectus Regulation); Annex III. List of national laws implementing the Prospectus Directive.