Le Portugal confirme qu’il a donné son accord au versement des dividendes suivant l’hypothèse selon laquelle, sans le versement de ceux-ci, il serait impossible pour CGD de racheter les instruments convertibles au cours des 12 mois suivants et selon laquelle, sans le versement de dividendes au cours des cinq années qui composent la période d’investissement public, CGD ne serait simplement pas en mesure de racheter les instruments convertibles sans manquer à ses obligations contractuelles.
Portugal confirms that it gave its agreement to the payment of dividends in light of its assumptions that failure to pay them would have made it impossible for CGD to repurchase the CoCos during the following 12 months, and that if no dividends were paid during the five-year public investment period, CGD would not be able at all to repurchase CoCos without breaching its contractual obligations.