Issuance Conditions of 57. Issue of Treasury Bonds - T-Bond VAR %, 12 - CZ0001002505 - amended version from 17.04.2009

Issuance Conditions of 57th Issue of Treasury Bonds
"Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2009 - 2012, VAR %"

(amended version from 17.04.2009)

The Ministry of Finance, in accordance with § 25 of Act No. 190/2004 Coll., on Bonds as amended (hereinafter only Bonds Act) determines issuance conditions of Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2009-2012, VAR %:

1. Basic characteristics of bonds:
   Issuer: Ministry of Finance on behalf of the Czech Republic
   Name: Czech Republic Treasury Bond, 2009-2012, VAR %
   Name in short: ČR, VAR %, 12
   Serial number of issue: 57
   Face value: CZK 10 000
   Form of bond: bearer
   Type of bond: book-entered
   Date of issue: 20 April 2009
   Date of maturity: 11 April 2012
   Interest yield: floating interest rate
   Taxation of interest yields: under legal regulations of the Czech Republic
   ISIN: CZ0001002505
   Bonds are issued in terms of § 25, paragraph 2 of Bonds Act, based on particular acts that allow treasury bonds issuance.

2. Bonds are on bearer and are issued in book-entered form. The holder register is kept by the Prague Securities Centre.

3. Bonds may be acquired by legal or natural entities with their seat or residence in the territory of the Czech Republic as well as in abroad. Repatriation of yields and of paid-up face value to abroad shall be carried out under legal regulations of the Czech Republic.

4. Issuer submits a proposal for receipt of a bond on Prague Stock Exchange trading.

5. Bonds have floating interest rate. Reference rate is 6M PRIBOR with fixing rate for 6 months, validation is enhanced in the amount of 100 basis points for one yield period. Interest yields shall be paid twice a year, each time by 11 April and 11 October of the respective year. In case the day of the payment of yield falls on a non-working day, the payment shall be carried out on the first consecutive working day with no claim to yield for the payment deferred as above.

6. For the first semi-annual period interest yield shall be determined at the day of an auction. For the following semi-annual period interest yield shall be determined 2 working days before an auction when a new yield period starts and then it shal be published.

7. The decesive day for payment of bond yield precedes by one month the day of maturity of bond yield. The ex-coupon date is the day following the decisive day, and it is fixed to be 12 March and 12 September. The bond holder shall receive the interest yield when possesses the bond on 11 March and 11 September of each year. The investor who is bond holder on 11 September 2009 shall receive the interest yield for the first period from date of Issuance to 11 October 2009.

8. Transferability of bonds in the Prague Securities Centre shall commence as of the day of crediting the respective bonds in the accounts of first holders. The last day, when transfers of securities in holder accounts in the Prague Securities Centre shall be carried out, shall be 11 March 2012.

9. The calculation of the proportional part of interest shall be made on the basis of a year with 360 days and of 12 months per 30 days (BCK - standard act/360). The proportional part of interest yield shall be added to the price of the respective bond as of the date of issue.

10. Bonds shall be issued per single tranches. Primary sale of 1. tranche shall be carried out in the form of auction organized by the Czech National Bank for a group of direct participants on 15 April 2009. Other investors may participate in the auction through direct participants. The announcement on the auction and the list of direct participants shall be published in advance. Primary sale of subsequent tranches shall be carried out under the same conditions. The issuance period shall be terminated by the day of 11 March 2012.

11. The particular given-out orders to auction by Primary dealers are settled gradually according to their highest offered price. As long as the bids with a certain price exceeds the offered volume of bonds, that issuer wants to sell, the bids with those higher offered price are cut off and then only partially fulfiled. The bonds are sold at offered prices.

12. The total anticipated volume of the bond issue is CZK 30 000 000 000. The Bonds can be issued for lesser or larger volume in accordance with § 11, on Bonds Act and in a such quantity that correspondens with developement and structure of financing of State Budget Deficit. The issue volume can be raised up to CZK 50 000 000 000.

13. Validation of domestic currency long-term rating was carried out and published by Standard and Poor´s Company at the level of A+, Moody´s at the level of A1.

14. Detachment of the right to bond yield under § 18 on Bonds Act is not applied.

15. The Ministry of Finance declares that it owes to each bond holder the face value of the respective bond. The bonds shall be paid up in the face value by the day of 11 April 2012. The interest terminates as of that day. The face value of the bond along with the last interest yield shall be paid to the bond-holder investor on 11 March 2012. In case the day of the payment of principal falls on a non-working day, the payment shall be carried out on the first consecutive day with no claim to yield for the payment deferred as above.

16. All rights connected with bonds and coupons issued in relation with § 42 of Bonds Act shall become statute-barred with the expiration of ten years since the day when such rights could be applied for the first time.

17. The Ministry of Finance pledges to ensure the payment of bond interest yields and to pay up the face value of bonds to the holders thereof in accordance with the present issuance conditions. The place of payment is the Czech National Bank. The place of payment shall publish the method by which the payment of the coupon and the settlement of the face value shall be carried out.

18. The bonds are direct, unconditional and unsubordinated obligations of the Czech Republic that are of the same standard with all other existing and future direct, unconditional and unsubordinated obligations of the Czech Republic.

19. Announcements for the public relating to these bonds shall be published in Hospodářské noviny or in another daily of similar orientation currently available in the Czech Republic and in the way that allows remote access.

20. These issuance conditions may be translated into foreign languages. In case of variance between various language versions of issuance conditions, the Czech version shall be decisive.

Minister:
Ing. Miroslav Kalousek