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Statkraft As €6,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme OFFERING CIRCULAR STATKRAFT AS (a limited company registered under number 987 059 699 with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises) €6,000,000,000 EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAMME ______________________________________________________________ Under this €6,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme (the Programme), Statkraft AS (the Issuer) may from time to time issue notes (the Notes) denominated in any currency agreed between the Issuer and the relevant Dealer (as defined below). The maximum aggregate nominal amount of all Notes from time to time outstanding will not exceed €6,000,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies calculated as described in the Programme Agreement described herein), subject to increase as described herein. The Notes may be issued on a continuing basis to one or more of the Dealers specified on page 7 and any additional Dealer appointed under the Programme from time to time (each a Dealer and together the Dealers), which appointment may be for a specific issue or on an ongoing basis. References in this Offering Circular to the relevant Dealer shall, in the case of an issue of Notes being (or intended to be) subscribed by more than one Dealer, be to all Dealers agreeing to purchase such Notes. Notes may be issued in bearer form (Bearer Notes), registered form (Registered Notes) or uncertificated book entry form cleared through the Norwegian Central Securities Depositary, the Verdipapirsentralen (VPS Notes and the VPS, respectively). An investment in Notes issued under the Programme involves certain risks. For a discussion of these risks see “Risk Factors”. Application has been made to the Financial Conduct Authority in its capacity as competent authority (the UK Listing Authority) for Notes issued under the Programme during the period of 12 months from the date of this Offering Circular to be admitted to the official list of the UK Listing Authority (the Official List) and to the London Stock Exchange plc (the London Stock Exchange) for such Notes to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s regulated market. References in this Offering Circular to Notes being listed (and all related references) shall mean that such Notes have been admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s regulated market and have been admitted to the Official List. VPS Notes will be listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange’s regulated market and, in this case, listed (and all related references) shall be construed accordingly. Each of the London Stock Exchange’s regulated market and the Oslo Stock Exchange’s regulated market are regulated markets for the purposes of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Directive 2014/65/EU, as amended). Notice of the aggregate nominal amount of Notes, interest (if any) payable in respect of Notes, the issue price of Notes and certain other information which is applicable to each Tranche (as defined under “Terms and Conditions of the Notes”) of Notes will be set out in a final terms document (the Final Terms) which, in relation to Notes to be listed on the London Stock Exchange’s regulated market, will be delivered to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange. Copies of Final Terms in relation to Notes to be listed on the London Stock Exchange will also be published on the website of the London Stock Exchange through a regulatory information service. The Notes of each Tranche will initially be represented by either a Temporary Global Note, a Permanent Global Note, a Regulation S Global Note, a Restricted Global Note and/or Definitive Registered Notes (each as defined below) as indicated in the applicable Final Terms. See “Form of the Notes” below. As at the date of this Offering Circular, the Issuer has been rated A- (stable outlook) by Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services Europe Ltd (S&P) and Baa1 (stable outlook) by Moody’s Investors Service Ltd (Moody’s). As of the date of this Offering Circular, the Programme has been rated A- (stable outlook) by S&P and Baa1 (stable outlook) by Moody's. Each of S&P and Moody’s is established in the European Union and is registered under Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 (as amended) (the CRA Regulation). Notes issued under the Programme may be rated or unrated by either of the rating agencies referred to above. Where a Tranche of Notes is rated, such rating will be disclosed in the Final Terms and will not necessarily be the same as the rating assigned to the Programme by the relevant rating agency. Please also refer to “Credit ratings may not reflect all risks” in the “Risk Factors” section of this Offering Circular. ____________________________________________________ Arranger BNP PARIBAS Dealers Barclays BNP PARIBAS Danske Bank DNB Bank Goldman Sachs International Handelsbanken Capital Markets Nordea Santander Global Corporate Banking SEB Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking UniCredit Bank The date of this Offering Circular is 22 March 2018 IMPORTANT INFORMATION This Offering Circular comprises a base prospectus for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive. When used in this Offering Circular, Prospectus Directive means Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended, including by Directive 2010/73/EU), and includes any relevant implementing measure in a relevant Member State of the European Economic Area. The Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in this Offering Circular and the Final Terms for each Tranche of Notes issued under the Programme. To the best of the knowledge of the Issuer (having taken all reasonable care to ensure that such is the case) the information contained in this Offering Circular is in accordance with the facts as at the date of this Offering Circular and does not omit anything likely to affect the import of such information. This Offering Circular is to be read in conjunction with all documents which are incorporated herein by reference (see “Documents Incorporated by Reference” below). This Offering Circular shall be read and construed on the basis that such documents are incorporated into and form part of this Offering Circular. Neither the Dealers nor the Trustee (as defined below) have separately verified the information contained herein. Accordingly, no representation, warranty or undertaking, express or implied, is made and no responsibility or liability is accepted by the Dealers or the Trustee as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained or incorporated in this Offering Circular or any other information provided by the Issuer in connection with the Programme or the Notes or their distribution. No Dealer or the Trustee accepts any liability in relation to the information contained or incorporated by reference in this Offering Circular or any other information provided by the Issuer in connection with the Programme. The statements made in this paragraph are made without prejudice to the responsibility of the Issuer under the Programme. Subject as provided in the applicable Final Terms, the only persons authorised to use this Offering Circular in connection with an offer of Notes are the persons named in the applicable Final Terms as the relevant Dealer or the Managers, as the case may be. No person is or has been authorised by the Issuer or the Trustee to give any information or to make any representation not contained in or not consistent with this Offering Circular or any other information supplied in connection with the Programme or the Notes and, if given or made, such information or representation must not be relied upon as having been authorised by the Issuer, any of the Dealers or the Trustee. Neither this Offering Circular nor any other information supplied in connection with the Programme or any Notes (i) is intended to provide the basis of any credit or other evaluation or (ii) should be considered as a recommendation or constituting an invitation or offer by the Issuer, any of the Dealers or the Trustee that any recipient of this Offering Circular or any other information supplied in connection with the Programme or any Notes should purchase any Notes. Each investor contemplating purchasing any Notes should make its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs, and its own appraisal of the creditworthiness, of the Issuer. Neither this Offering Circular nor any other information supplied in connection with the Programme or the issue of any Notes constitutes an offer or invitation by or on behalf of the Issuer, any of the Dealers or the Trustee to any person to subscribe for or to purchase any Notes. Neither the delivery of this Offering Circular nor the offering, sale or delivery of any Notes shall in any circumstances imply that the information contained herein concerning the Issuer is correct at any time subsequent to the date hereof or that any other information supplied in connection with the Programme is correct as of any time subsequent to the date indicated in the document containing the same. The Dealers and the Trustee expressly do not undertake to review the financial condition or affairs of the Issuer during the life of the Programme or to advise any investor in the Notes of any information coming to their attention. Investors should review, inter alia, the most recently published documents incorporated by reference into this Offering Circular when deciding whether or not to purchase any Notes. Amounts payable on Floating Rate Notes (as described in “Terms and Conditions of the Notes – Interest on Floating Rate Notes”) may, if so specified in the applicable Final Terms, be calculated by reference to a Reference Rate (as defined in the Terms and Conditions of the Notes). As at the date of this Offering Circular, no Reference Rate’s administrator is included in ESMA’s register of administrators under Article 36 of the Regulation (EU) No.
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