RNS Number:8563H
Export Finance & Insurance Corp
24 February 2003


FORMAL NOTICE FOR SPECIALIST SECURITIES

PUBLICATION DATE:             24th February 2003

Application has been made to the UK Listing Authority for the following securities to be admitted to the Official List.

DETAILS OF ISSUE:            U.S.$2,500,000,000 Programme for the Issuance of Debt Instruments

ISSUER:                      Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
                             Export House
                             22 Pitt Street
                             Sydney NSW 2000

INCORPORATED IN:              Commonwealth of Australia

GUARANTOR:                   Commonwealth of Australia (in the case money payable by EFIC to a person other than the
                             Commonwealth)

ARRANGER:                    Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited

Particulars relating to the issue may be obtained during usual business hours for fourteen days from the date of this
formal notice from:

Citibank, N.A
5 Carmelite Street
London
EC4Y 0PA

In addition, a copy of the Particulars is available for inspection at the Document Viewing Facility at the Financial
Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, London E14 5HS.


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