PERÚ Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas
SMV
Superintendency of the Market de Valores

“Decade of Equal Opportunities for Women and Men” "Year of the Bicentennial, of the consolidation of our Independence, and of the commemoration of the heroic battles of Junín and Ayacucho"

Miraflores, 02 August 2024

CIRCULAR No. 269-2024-SMV/11.1

Gentlemen
Issuers of the General Regime
Present.-

Ref.: File No. 2024033328

I address you in relation to the obligations that issuers with securities registered in the Public Registry of the Securities Market – RPMV under the charge of the Superintendency of the Securities Market – SMV have, among which is the obligation to disseminate material facts truthfully, sufficiently and timely, as provided by article 27 of the Securities Market Law, Legislative Decree No. 861 and its amendments and by the Regulation of Material Facts and Reserved Information, approved by SMV Resolution No. 005-2014-SMV/11.1 and its amendments (hereinafter, HI Regulation).

In this regard, within the framework of the provisions of articles 3, 4 and 5 of the HI Regulation and considering that your represented entity, at the time of presentation of its individual or separate interim financial statements as of 30 June 2024 has declared that it is obliged to present information on the monthly position of its derivative financial instruments, it is necessary to remind your represented entity of its obligation to disseminate as a material fact the monthly position in derivative financial instruments, according to numeral 18.1 Annex 1 and Annex 2 «Monthly position in derivative financial instruments» of the HI Regulation, which provides the following:

« Annex 2 Monthly position in derivative financial instruments

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4. The obligated issuer must submit, within ten (10) business days after the close of each month, a material fact with the following detail of its derivative instruments updated as of the report date:

1. Derivative Instrument.

2. Purpose.

3. Notional Amount.

4. Asset / Liability or Variable that the derivative hedges.

5. Currency.

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6. Fair value of the derivative instrument at the close of the reporting month

7. Amount of total accumulated gain / loss in the year from derivative financial instruments.

8. Other relevant or explanatory information at the Issuer's discretion.

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In this sense, you are urged that, within the framework of the duty of diligence, you adopt the necessary measures for compliance with the aforementioned obligation, which has as its deadline 15 August 20241 .

Likewise, you are reminded that the material fact must be sent using the «Monthly position form in Derivative Financial Instruments», for which you must attach the template found in the material facts section of the MVNet System2 .

In the event that, as of the date of receipt of this circular, your represented entity has complied with the aforementioned obligation, we would appreciate it if you disregard the foregoing.

Finally, it should be noted that this circular does not require a response from your represented entity; as well as that said document is preventive and referential in nature, so it does not exempt your represented entity from its responsibility to know and observe the securities market regulations and to fully comply with its obligations to present the information applicable to it.

Without any other particular, I remain yours.

Sincerely,
Alix Godos
General Intendant
General Intendancy of Conduct Supervision

[1] However, said term is subject to the provisions of art. 183 numeral 5 of the Peruvian Civil Code: «The term whose last day is non-business ends on the first following day».

[2] Use the corresponding path in MVNet: Information obligations>> Material Facts>>18.1 Monthly position in derivative financial instruments.