Any notice or other communication given under this Contract must be in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by letter or electronic mail.
b)
Notices and other communications for which fixed periods are laid down in this Contract or which themselves fix periods binding on the addressee, may be made by hand delivery, registered letter or by electronic mail. Such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been received by the other Party:
(i)
on the date of delivery in relation to a hand-delivered or registered letter;
(ii)
in the case of any electronic mail only when such electronic mail is actually received in readable form and only if it is addressed in such a manner as the other Party shall specify for this purpose;
c)
Any notice provided by the Borrower to the Bank by electronic mail shall:
(i)
mention the Contract Number in the subject line; and
(ii)
be in the form of a non-editable electronic image (pdf, tif or other common non editable file format agreed between the Parties) of the notice signed by an authorised signatory with individual representation right or by two or more authorised signatories with joint representation right of the Borrower as appropriate, attached to the electronic mail.
d)
Notices issued by the Borrower pursuant to any provision of this Contract shall, where required by the Bank, be delivered to the Bank together with satisfactory evidence of the authority of the person or persons authorised to sign such notice on behalf of the Borrower and the authenticated specimen signature of such person or persons.
e)
Without affecting the validity of electronic mail notices or communication made in accordance with this
, the following notices, communications and documents shall also be sent by registered letter to the relevant Party at the latest on the second Business Day following:
(i)
Disbursement Acceptance;
(ii)
any notices and communication in respect of the deferment, cancellation and suspension of a disbursement of any Tranche, interest revision or conversion of any Tranche, Market Disruption Event, Prepayment Request, Prepayment Notice, Event of Default, any demand for prepayment; and
(iii)
any other notice, communication or document required by the Bank.
f)
The Parties agree that any above communication (including via electronic mail) is an accepted form of communication, shall constitute admissible evidence in court and shall have the same evidential value as an agreement under hand (sous seing privé).
The address and electronic mail address (and the department for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication to be made or document to be delivered under or in connection with this Contract is:
For the Bank Attention: EIB Global Directorate, Enlargement & Neighbourhood Department, Western Balkans & Türkiye Division
Any notice or communication given under or in connection with this Contract must be in English.
b)
All other documents provided under or in connection with this Contract must be:
(i)
in English; or
(ii)
if not in English, and if so required by the Bank, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail.
and Articles 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2, which will become legally effective and enter into full force and effect upon the date of signature of this Contract, this Contract shall become effective on the date (the "Date of Effectiveness") specified in a letter from the Bank to the Borrower confirming that the Bank has received evidence that all necessary official and governmental approvals, including the ratification by the national parliament of the Republic of Serbia and such letter shall be conclusive evidence that this Contract has become effective.
If the Date of Effectiveness does not occur on or prior to the date falling 12 (twelve) months after the date of this Contract, this Contract shall not enter into force and no further action shall be necessary or required (unless agreed in writing otherwise between the Bank and the Borrower).
Schedule E Certificates to be Provided by the Borrower The Parties have caused this Contract to be executed in 4 (four) originals in the English language.
At Luxembourg, this 27/12/2024
Signed for and on behalf of
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
________________ _______________ Matteo Rivellini Hazal Hatunoglu Head of Division Legal Counsel At Belgrade, this 27.12.2024
Signed for and on behalf of
THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
____________________________ Mr. Siniša Mali First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance