Article 3
Publication on issuers’ websites
1. Issuers of bonds marketed as environmentally sustainable or of sustainability-linked bonds shall disclose the information referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 using the templates referred to in Article 1 on their website.
The disclosures, including any amendments or corrections thereto, shall be available, free of charge, until at least 12 months after the maturity of the bonds concerned.
2. The information referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 shall be published, at the choice of the issuer of the bonds concerned, either in a language customary in the sphere of international finance, or:
(a) |
where the bonds are offered to the public or are admitted to trading in only one Member State, in a language accepted by the competent authority of that Member State; |
(b) |
where the bonds are offered to the public or are admitted to trading in two or more Member States, in a language accepted by the competent authority of each of those Member States. |
3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, where a prospectus for the bonds concerned has been published pursuant to Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and the Council (2), the information referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 shall be published in the language or languages of that prospectus.
(2) Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market, and repealing Directive 2003/71/EC (OJ L 168, 30.6.2017, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/1129/oj).