Erste Group Bank AG €30,000,000,000 Debt Issuance
Prospectus Erste Group Bank AG (Incorporated as a joint stock company in the Republic of Austria under registered number FN 33209 m) €30,000,000,000 Debt Issuance Programme On 3 July 1998, Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG entered into a Debt Issuance Programme (the "Programme"). The Programme was subsequently amended and updated on 2 July 1999, 29 June 2000, 29 June 2001, 17 May 2002, 19 May 2003, 17 May 2004, 9 November 2005, 10 August 2006 and 10 August 2007. With effect from 9 August 2008, Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG demerged its Austrian banking business into a wholly owned subsidiary and changed its name to Erste Group Bank AG (the "Issuer" or "Erste Group Bank”). With effect from the date hereof, the Programme has been updated and this Prospectus supersedes and replaces the Prospectus dated 10 August 2007. Any Notes to be issued after the date hereof under the Programme are issued subject to the provisions set out herein, save that Notes which are to be consolidated and form a single series with Notes issued prior to the date hereof will be issued subject to the Conditions of the Notes applicable on the date of issue for the first tranche of Notes of such series. Subject as aforesaid, this Prospectus does not affect any Notes issued prior to the date hereof. Under the Programme, the Issuer, subject to compliance with all relevant laws, regulations and directives, may from time to time issue debt securities specified in the relevant Final Terms (as defined herein) as either domestic notes issued in the German or English language under Austrian law ("Domestic Notes") or international notes issued in the English language under either English or Austrian law ("International Notes", and together with Domestic Notes, the "Notes").
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