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24px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"> </p> <p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><strong>Previous fee policy for certification agreements <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">signed before the 1st of July 2024:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">A Minimum Fee of USD$2.000 (two-thousand US dollars) for Issuers in developed countries and USD$1.000 (one-thousand US dollars) for Issuers in developing countries will be charged by the Climate Bonds Initiative upon awarding the Certification label. Following the issuance of any certified bond (or a series of bonds in a Programmatic Certification process) a Variable fee of 1/10th of a basis point (i.e. x 0.00001) of the bond issuance amount will be calculated. If the Variable fee exceeds the Minimum Fee, an additional amount will be payable at the time of issuance of the bond(s) equal to the difference between the Variable Fee and the Minimum Fee.</font></p> <p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">For Programmatic Issuers, the Minimum Fee will only apply to the first bond issued under the program; the Variable fee for each subsequent programmatic issuance will be calculated based on the aggregate issuance amounts under the program and any fees previously billed (including the Minimum fee) will be deducted from the cumulative Variable Fee. 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