Time schedule of the auction procedure:
Date of invitation to bid: Friday, 28 December 2007 Bidding period: Wednesday, 2 January 2008, from 8.00 a. m. until 11.00 a. m. Frankfurt time
Inclusion in stock exchange trading: Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Value date: Friday, 4 January 2008
Terms of the issue to be reopened:
Maturity: 4 January 2018
Interest payment: 4 January annually, interest has begun to accrue on 16 November 2007
First interest payment: 4 January 2009 for 415 days