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Besedilo pogodbe se v angleškem jeziku in prevodu v slovenskem jeziku glasi *: *Besedilo pogodbe v francoskem in nemškem jeziku ter priloge 1 – Seznam naslovov za namene 10. člena, 4 – Poroštvena pogodba med državo članico in EIB z dne DD/MM/LL o posojilih, ki jih EIB da iz svojih lastnih sredstev skladno s finančnim protokolom – Polletna informacija med obdobjem 31/12/LL in 30/6/LL v skladu s členom 4.03 poroštvene pogodbe in 5 – Polletna informacija med obdobjem 31/12/LL in 30/6/LL o previdnostnih omejitvah, so na vpogled v Sektorju za mednarodno pravo Ministrstva za zunanje zadeve in Sektorju za mednarodne finančne odnose Ministrstva za finance. concerning loans to be made by the European Investment Bank in favour of investment projects in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and in the Overseas Countries and Territories This Agreement is made between: KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, KINGDOM OF DENMARK, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA, IRELAND, HELLENIC REPUBLIC, KINGDOM OF SPAIN, FRENCH REPUBLIC, REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, ITALIAN REPUBLIC, REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS, REPUBLIC OF LATVIA, REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA, GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG, HUNGARY, REPUBLIC OF MALTA, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, REPUBLIC OF POLAND, PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC, ROMANIA, REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC, REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, KINGDOM OF SWEDEN, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, acting through the services and ministries indicated in Annex 1 to the present Agreement (the “Guarantee Agreement” or “Guarantee”) and represented by the signatories listed on the signature pages (each a “Guarantor” and collectively the “Guarantors” or “Member States”) and EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK having its seat at 100, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2950 Luxembourg Kirchberg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by Mr. Werner Hoyer, President (the “Bank”) WHEREAS: 1. The Guarantors undertook certain obligations to act as guarantor in Article 4 of the Internal Agreement signed at Luxembourg and Brussels on 24 and 26 June 2013 respectively (the “Cotonou Internal Agreement III”) relating to the financing of Community aid under the multi-annual financial framework for the period 2014 to 2020 (equivalent to the third Financial Protocol) in accordance with the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 between the European Union and its Member States and the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, as first revised in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 and as amended for the second time in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010 (the “Cotonou Agreement”) and on the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which part four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union applies under Council Decision 2001/822/EC of 27 November 2001 on the association of the Overseas Countries and Territories with the European Union (as amended or replaced from time to time, the “Association Decision”) (together the “Cotonou Framework”). 2. Having regard to the foregoing recital, the Board of Governors of the Bank decided on 31 May 2013 to authorise the Bank to grant finance from its own resources for investment projects over the period 2014 to 2020 covered by the third Financial Protocol to the Cotonou Agreement for a total amount of up to EUR 2 500 million, and up to EUR 100 million in the Overseas Countries and Territories. 3. In a continuation of the policy decided by the Board of Governors of the Bank on 1 March 2012 that the Bank may assume the full commercial risk on each individual private sector operation on own resources with a systematic carve-out of the political risk, which would continue to be guaranteed by the Member States, the aforementioned authorisation of the Board of Governors of the Bank was issued on condition that the finance granted by the Bank would be subject to the continued availability of a satisfactory guarantee (which is this Guarantee) from the Guarantors for their aggregate amount plus all related sums in accordance with the decision of the Board of Governors of 1 March 2012 and that the finance would be granted to finance investment projects satisfying the Bank’s normal criteria for lending from its own resources. 4. Article 4 of the Cotonou Internal Agreement III provides that this Guarantee shall be restricted to 75% of the total amount of the credits opened by the Bank under all Loan Agreements made pursuant to the Cotonou Partnership Agreement III and the Association Decision and that it shall cover all risks for public sector projects. It provides further that for private sector projects, this Guarantee shall cover all political risks and the EIB will assume the full commercial risk. 5. The said Article 4 further provides that Member States shall be liable under this Guarantee in proportion to their contributions to the capital of the Bank. Annex 2 of this Guarantee specifies, for information, the respective share of each Member State in the capital of the Bank as of the date of signature of this Guarantee. 6. The Guarantors and the Bank intend that, where the Guarantors are subrogated to the rights and remedies of the Bank in relation to any Loan, the Bank shall, if so requested by the Guarantors, administer and manage the Loan Agreement which has gone into default in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Cotonou III Arrears Administration Agreement concluded between the Bank and the Guarantors governing the procedures for payment and reimbursements under the Member States guarantee in favour of the Bank (the “Cotonou III Arrears Administration Agreement”). IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS: A. In this Guarantee: “Borrower” means any beneficiary of a Loan from the Bank within the scope of the third Financial Protocol to the Cotonou Agreement or the Association Decision. “Credit Risk Policy Guidelines” means the Bank’s credit risk policy guidelines for own resource operations outside the European Union as well as, where applicable, the Bank's EU credit risk policy guidelines, as approved, amended, supplemented or modified by the Bank from time to time. “EIB Financing Operation” means a Loan extended by the Bank to eligible investment projects carried out in a Host Country from the Bank's own resources and in accordance with its own rules and procedures, granted under the Cotonou Framework and governed by a Loan Agreement entered into by the Bank with a Borrower. “Guaranteed Debtor” means a Borrower or its Third-Party Guarantor. “Guaranteed Sum(s)” means any obligation covered by this Guarantee consisting of principal, interest, commissions, indemnities, charges, expenses and other accessories and any other sum which is at any time owed by a Guaranteed Debtor to the Bank on account of a Loan or a Third-Party Guarantee. “Host Government” means the authorities currently in place, or any successor authorities, that effectively control part or all of the territory of a Host Country or any political or territorial subdivision, or any other public authority of such country, and includes any entity located inside or outside the Host Country and vested with regulatory powers conferred by the laws of the Host Country. “Host Country” means each ACP State and each Overseas Country and Territory within the meaning of the Cotonou Framework. “Loan” means the provision of money from the Bank to a Borrower as a loan or as a bond or any equivalent instrument, which is acceptable to the Bank as a substitute for a loan in accordance with the Credit Risk Policy Guidelines, according to the terms laid down in a Loan Agreement. “Loan Agreement” means a signed agreement concluded between the Bank and a Borrower, setting forth the terms applicable to an EIB Financing Operation in the form of Loan. “Loan Loss Cover Account” means the account denominated in euro maintained by the Bank in the name of the Guarantors, which shall be funded from the income resulting from the application of risk-pricing on EIB Financing Operations and which shall be managed in accordance with the provisions of the Cotonou III Arrears Administration Agreement. “Proportional Participation” means, in respect of each Guarantor, the proportion of that Guarantor’s contribution to the capital of the Bank; such proportion to be measured for the purposes of each call pursuant to Article 2 at the time of that call; the contributions of each Guarantor to the capital of the Bank as of the date of this Guarantee being set out at Annex 2 for information. “Third-Party Guarantee” means a guarantee issued by a third party in favour of the Bank, including but not limited to a letter of credit or a comfort letter issued in connection with the grant of a Loan to a Borrower, and includes any undertaking by any party jointly liable for all or part of the Guaranteed Debtor’s obligations towards the Bank in respect of a Loan granted by the Bank. “Third-Party Guarantor” means an issuer of a Third-Party Guarantee on behalf of a Borrower. B. The following terms have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Recitals, Articles and Annexes specified hereafter: In this Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Guarantee; (b) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa; (c) a reference to an Article, a party or an Annex is a reference to that Article of, or that party or Annex to, this Guarantee. Any change to the addresses as listed above shall have effect only after such change has been notified in writing to the other parties. The Recitals and the five Annexes form an integral part of this Guarantee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF each of the parties hereto has caused this Guarantee to be signed by its authorised signatory. o posojilih, ki jih Evropska investicijska banka da za investicijske projekte v afriških, karibskih in pacifiških državah ter v čezmorskih državah in ozemljih Ta pogodba je sklenjena med: KRALJEVINO BELGIJO, REPUBLIKO BOLGARIJO, ČEŠKO REPUBLIKO, KRALJEVINO DANSKO, ZVEZNO REPUBLIKO NEMČIJO, REPUBLIKO ESTONIJO, IRSKO, HELENSKO REPUBLIKO, KRALJEVINO ŠPANIJO, FRANCOSKO REPUBLIKO, REPUBLIKO HRVAŠKO, ITALIJANSKO REPUBLIKO, REPUBLIKO CIPER, REPUBLIKO LATVIJO, REPUBLIKO LITVO, VELIKIM VOJVODSTVOM LUKSEMBURG, MADŽARSKO, REPUBLIKO MALTO, KRALJEVINO NIZOZEMSKO, REPUBLIKO AVSTRIJO, REPUBLIKO POLJSKO, PORTUGALSKO REPUBLIKO, ROMUNIJO, REPUBLIKO SLOVENIJO, SLOVAŠKO REPUBLIKO, REPUBLIKO FINSKO, KRALJEVINO ŠVEDSKO, ZDRUŽENIM KRALJESTVOM VELIKA BRITANIJA IN SEVERNA IRSKA, ki nastopajo prek služb in ministrstev, naštetih v prilogi 1 k pogodbi (“poroštvena pogodba” ali “poroštvo”), in jih zastopajo podpisniki, navedeni na podpisnih straneh (posamezno “porok” in skupaj “poroki” ali “države članice”), in EVROPSKO INVESTICIJSKO BANKO s sedežem na 100, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2950 Luxembourg Kirchberg, Veliko vojvodstvo Luksemburg, ki jo zastopa predsednik g. Werner Hoyer (“banka”), KI SE GLEDE NA TO, 1. da so poroki prevzeli določene obveznosti delovati kot porok v 4. členu Notranjega sporazuma, podpisanega v Luxembourgu in Bruslju 24. in 26. junija 2013 (“cotonoujski notranji sporazum III”), ki se nanaša na financiranje pomoči Skupnosti na podlagi večletnega finančnega okvira za obdobje od 2014 do 2020 (enakovredno tretjemu Finančnemu protokolu) in skladno s Sporazumom o partnerstvu, podpisanim 23. junija 2000 v Cotonouju (Benin) med Evropsko unijo in njenimi državami članicami ter afriškimi, karibskimi in pacifiškimi državami, kakor je bil prvič spremenjen v Luxembourgu 25. junija 2005 in drugič v Ouagadougou 22. junija 2010 (v nadaljnjem besedilu “cotonoujski sporazum”), ter o dodelitvi finančne pomoči čezmorskim državam in ozemljem, za katere velja četrti del Pogodbe o delovanju Evropske unije na podlagi Sklepa Sveta 2001/822/ES z dne 27. novembra 2001 o pridružitvi čezmorskih držav in ozemelj Evropski uniji (občasno spremenjenim ali nadomeščenim, “sklep o pridružitvi”) (skupno “cotonoujski okvir”); 2. da je ob upoštevanju zgoraj navedenega Svet guvernerjev banke 31. maja 2013 odločil, da pooblasti banko za odobritev finančnih sredstev iz njenih lastnih sredstev za investicijske projekte za obdobje od 2014 do 2020 na podlagi tretjega finančnega protokola Cotonoujskega sporazuma v skupni višini največ 2,5 milijarde EUR in največ 100 milijonov EUR za čezmorske države in ozemlja; 3. da je bilo v nadaljevanju politike, ki jo je določil Svet guvernerjev banke 1. marca 2012 o tem, da lahko banka prevzame celotno poslovno tveganje za posamezne posle zasebnega sektorja z lastnimi sredstvi, s sistematično izključitvijo političnega tveganja, za katerega bodo še vnaprej dajale poroštvo države članice, zgoraj navedeno dovoljenje Sveta guvernerjev banke izdano pod pogojem, da bodo finančna sredstva, ki jih odobri banka, pogojena s stalnim zadovoljivim poroštvom (kar je ta poroštvena pogodba), ki ga dajo poroki za njihov skupen znesek in vseh z njim povezanih vsot, skladno z odločitvijo Sveta guvernerjev z dne 1. marca 2012, ter da bodo finančna sredstva odobrena za tiste finančne investicije, ki bodo zadovoljile običajne kriterije banke za posojila iz lastnih sredstev; 4. da 4. člen cotonoujskega notranjega sporazuma III določa, da je to poroštvo omejeno na 75% celotnega zneska danih posojil banke po vseh posojilnih pogodbah, sklenjenih na podlagi cotonoujskega sporazuma o partnerstvu III in Sklepa o pridružitvi, ter da mora kriti vsa tveganja projektov javnega sektorja. Nadalje zagotavlja, da bo ta poroštvena pogodba krila vsa politična tveganja za projekte zasebnega sektorja ter da EIB prevzema celotno poslovno tveganje; 5. da omenjeni 4. člen določa tudi, da po tej poroštveni pogodbi države članice odgovarjajo sorazmerno z deleži v kapitalu banke. Priloga 2 te poroštvene pogodbe informativno določa delež posamezne države članice v kapitalu banke; 6. da so se poroki in banka sporazumeli, da kadar poroki prevzamejo pravice in pravna sredstva banke v povezavi s katerim koli posojilom, banka na zahtevo porokov vodi in upravlja neizpolnjeno posojilno pogodbo v skladu s pogoji cotonoujskega sporazuma o upravljanju zaostalih plačil III, ki je bil sklenjen med banko in poroki in ureja postopke plačil in povračil v zvezi s poroštvi držav članic v korist banke (cotonoujski sporazum o upravljanju zaostalih plačil III), DOGOVORIJO: A. V tej poroštveni pogodbi: “posojilojemalec” pomeni prejemnika posojila banke v okviru tretjega Finančnega protokola cotonoujskega sporazuma ali Sklepa o pridružitvi; “smernice politike kreditnega tveganja” pomeni smernice politike banke glede kreditnega tveganja za posle zunaj Evropske unije, ki jih financira iz lastnih sredstev, in kadar je ustrezno, smernice politike banke glede kreditnega tveganja znotraj EU, ki jih banka občasno odobri, spremeni, dopolni ali prilagodi; “posel financiranja EIB” pomeni posojilo iz lastnih sredstev banke, ki ga ta podeli za upravičene investicijske projekte v državi gostiteljici v skladu s svojimi pravili in postopki, odobrenimi na podlagi cotonoujskega okvira in urejenimi s posojilno pogodbo, sklenjeno med banko in posojilojemalcem; “dolžnik z jamstvom” pomeni posojilojemalca ali njegovega poroka kot tretje osebe; “znesek ali zneski z jamstvom” pomeni katero koli obveznost, ki jo krije to poroštvo, vključno z glavnico, obrestmi, provizijami, odškodninami, stroški, izdatki ali drugimi dodatki, ter vsak znesek, ki ga kadar koli dolžnik z jamstvom dolguje banki iz posojila ali poroštva tretje osebe; “vlada gostiteljica” pomeni trenutno ali vsako naslednjo oblast, ki dejansko nadzira del ali celotno ozemlje države gostiteljice ali politično ali ozemeljsko enoto, ali drug javni organ take države ter vključuje vsak subjekt znotraj ali zunaj države gostiteljice, ki ima pooblastila za urejanje po zakonodaji države gostiteljice; “država gostiteljica” pomeni vsako afriško, karibsko in pacifiško državo ter čezmorske države in ozemlja skladno s cotonoujskim okvirom; “posojilo” pomeni zagotovitev denarja banke posojilojemalcu v skladu s pogoji posojilne pogodbe, in sicer v obliki posojila ali obveznice ali katerega koli enakovrednega instrumenta, ki je v skladu s smernicami politike kreditnega tveganja za banko sprejemljiv kot nadomestilo za posojilo; “posojilna pogodba” pomeni podpisano pogodbo, sklenjeno med banko in posojilojemalcem, ki določa pogoje, veljavne za posle, ki jih EIB financira v obliki posojila; “račun za kritje izgub” pomeni račun, denominiran v evrih, ki ga vodi banka v imenu porokov v skladu z določbami cotonoujskega sporazuma o upravljanju zaostalih plačil III, na katerega se stekajo sredstva, ki izhajajo iz pribitka na podlagi ocene kreditnega tveganja pri poslih financiranja EIB, razen za projekte zasebnega sektorja; “sorazmerna udeležba” pomeni za vsakega poroka delež njegovega prispevka v kapital banke; tak delež se meri za vsak poziv v skladu z 2. členom v času tega poziva; prispevki vsakega poroka v kapital banke na dan te poroštvene pogodbe so kot informacija določeni v prilogi 2; “poroštvo tretje osebe” pomeni poroštvo, ki ga je v korist banke izdala tretja stran, kar vključuje, vendar pa ne samo, akreditiv ali patronatsko izjavo, izdano v povezavi z odobritvijo posojila posojilojemalcu, ter zajema vse zaveze katere koli strani, ki solidarno odgovarja za vse ali del obveznosti dolžnika z jamstvom do banke iz odobrenega posojila; “porok kot tretja oseba” pomeni izdajatelja poroštva tretje osebe v imenu posojilojemalca. B. Naslednji izrazi imajo pomen, kakor je določen v uvodnih navedbah, členih in prilogah, navedenih v nadaljnjem besedilu: Razen če sobesedilo ne zahteva drugače, v tej poroštveni pogodbi: (a) so naslovi namenjeni zgolj boljši preglednosti in ne vplivajo na razlago poroštvene pogodbe; (b) besede v ednini vključujejo množino in nasprotno; (c) sklicevanje na neki člen, stranko ali prilogo pomeni sklicevanje na člen, stranko ali prilogo te poroštvene pogodbe.