{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-454/annex/chapter-III/section-C/division-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-454/annex/chapter-III/section-C/division-27.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2015/454",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2015/454 of 9 July 2014 on the State aid SA.34823 (2012/C), SA.36004 (2013/NN), SA.37965 (2013/N), SA.37966 (2013/N), SA.37967 (2013/N) implemented by Greece for Alpha Bank Group relating to: Recapitalisation and restructuring of Alpha Bank S.A., Resolution of Cooperative Bank of Western Macedonia through a transfer order to Alpha Bank S.A., Resolution of Evia Cooperative Bank through a transfer order to Alpha Bank S.A., Resolution of the Cooperative Bank of Dodecanese through a transfer order to Alpha Bank S.A. (notified under document C(2014) 4662) (Only the English text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-454",
  "path": "annex/chapter/III/section/C/division/27",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(27)",
  "heading": "Dividend, Coupon, Repurchase, Call and Buy Back ban: Unless the Commission otherwise agrees to an exemption, the Hellenic Republic commits that:",
  "text": "(a) The Bank shall not pay any coupons on hybrid capital instruments (or any other instruments for which the coupon payment is discretionary) or dividends on own funds instruments and subordinated debt instruments other than where there is a legal obligation to do so. The Bank shall not release reserves to put itself in such a position. In case of doubt as to whether, for the purpose of the present Commitment, a legal obligation exists, the Bank shall submit the proposed coupon or dividend payment to the Commission for approval;\n(b) The Bank shall not repurchase any of its own shares or exercise a call option in respect of those own funds instruments and subordinated debt instruments;\n(c) The Bank shall not buy back hybrid capital instruments.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/454/annex/chapter/III/section/C/division/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:25.798006+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}