Transitional provisions

(1) This Act, in the version in force before 14 July 2006, applies to offers published before 14 July 2006.
(2) For target companies within the meaning of section 2(3), no. 2, whose voting securities were admitted to trading on an organised market on 20 May 2006, section 1(3) applies with the proviso that, in no. 2, letter (b), double letter (bb), the decision of the supervisory bodies concerned takes the place of the decision of the target company.
(3) Where control of the target company is obtained because conduct coordinated before 19 August 2008 leads, on the basis of the new version of section 30(2), to an attribution of voting rights from 19 August 2008, no obligation exists under section 35(1), first sentence and (2), first sentence.
(4) This Act, in the version in force before 19 August 2008, applies to offers published under section 14(2), first sentence before 19 August 2008.
(5) Section 16(4), in the version of the Act Implementing the Shareholders' Rights Directive of 30 July 2009 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2479), does not apply to general meetings convened before 1 September 2009.
(6) This Act and the WpÜG Objection Committee Ordinance, in the version in force before 11 June 2021, apply to objections lodged before 11 June 2021.