Article 1 Subject matter, scope and exemptions
1. This Regulation lays down requirements for the drawing up, approval and distribution of the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market situated or operating within a Member State.
2. This Regulation shall not apply to the following types of securities:
(a) units issued by collective investment undertakings other than the closed-end type;
(b) non-equity securities issued by a Member State or by one of a Member State's regional or local authorities, by public international bodies of which one or more Member States are members, by the European Central Bank or by the central banks of the Member States;
(c) shares in the capital of central banks of the Member States;
(d) securities unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by a Member State or by one of a Member State's regional or local authorities;
(e) securities issued by associations with legal status or non-profit-making bodies, recognised by a Member State, for the purposes of obtaining the funding necessary to achieve their non-profit-making objectives;