Time schedule of the auction procedure:
Date of invitation to bid: Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Bidding period: Wednesday, 25 July 2007, from 8.00 a. m. until 11.00 a. m. Frankfurt time
Inclusion in stock exchange trading: Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Value date: Friday, 27 July 2007
Terms of the issue to be reopened:
Maturity: 4 July 2039
Interest payment: 4 July annually, interest has begun to accrue on 26 January 2007
First interest payment: 4 July 2008 for 525 days