2024 Notes, the 0.000% 2025 Notes, the 0.875% 2025 Notes, the 2026 Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 1.375% 2029
Notes and the 2031 Notes so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an event of default under such Notes or the
applicable Indenture.
With respect to the 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 0.000% 2025 Notes, the 0.875% 2025 Notes, the 2026
Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 1.375% 2029 Notes and the 2031 Notes, “Business Day” means any day, other than a
Saturday or Sunday, (1) which is not a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York or London are
authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close and (2) on which the Trans-European Automated
Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the TARGET2 system), or any successor thereto, is open.
All payments of principal of, the redemption price (if any), and interest and additional amounts (if any) on the
3.050% 2029 Notes and the 2042 Notes are payable in pounds sterling, or, if the United Kingdom adopts euro as its
lawful currency, in euro. If pounds sterling or, in the event the Notes are redenominated into euro, euro is unavailable
to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control or,
in the event the notes are redenominated into euro, the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of
the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by
public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the 3.050% 2029
Notes and the 2042 Notes will be made in U.S. dollars until the pound sterling or euro, as the case may be, is again
available to the Company or so used. The amount payable on any date in pounds sterling or, in the event such Notes
are redenominated into euro, euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal
Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the
event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S.
dollar/pounds sterling or, in the event the Notes are redenominated into euro, the most recent U.S. dollar/euro
exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or prior to the second Business Day prior to the relevant
payment date. Any payment in respect of the 3.050% 2029 Notes and the 2042 Notes so made in U.S. dollars will not
constitute an event of default under such Notes or the 2013 Indenture.
With respect to the 3.050% 2029 Notes and the 2042 Notes, “Business Day” means any day which is not a
day on which banking institutions in The City of New York or London or the relevant place of payment are authorized
or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.
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