Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-031790
Chunk: 131

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 424B2
Chunk 131
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 of notice is in the interest of the holders. We are required to furnish to the trustee annually a statement as to our compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Dated Subordinated Debt Securities Indenture. Limitation on Suits Before a holder of debt securities may bypass the trustee and bring its own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce its rights or protect its interests relating to the debt securities, the following must occur:

| • |     | The holder must give the trustee written notice that a Senior Enforcement Event or a Dated Subordinated                                                                                                                                       
 Enforcement Event, as applicable, has occurred and remains uncured, specifying such default and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” under the Senior Debt Securities Indenture or Dated Subordinated Debt Securities Indenture, 
 as applicable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | The holders of 25% in principal amount of all outstanding debt securities of the relevant series must make a                                                                                                                                         
 written request that the trustee take action because of the default, and the holder must offer to the trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the trustee in its sole discretion against the cost and other liabilities of taking that action. |

| • |     | The trustee must not have taken action for sixty (60) days after receipt of the above notice and offer of                                                                                                   
 security or indemnity, and the trustee must not have received an inconsistent direction from the majority in principal amount of all outstanding debt securities of the relevant series during that period. |

Notwithstanding any contrary provisions, nothing shall impair the right of a holder, absent the holder’s consent, to sue for any payments due but unpaid with respect to the debt securities. -24-

Street name and other indirect holders should consult their banks or brokers for information on how to give notice or direction to or make a request of the trustee and how to waive any past Senior Enforcement Event or Dated Subordinated Enforcement Event, as applicable, as described below in “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Contingent Capital Securities—Legal Ownership; Form of Securities.” Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets; Assumption We may, without the consent of the holders of any of the debt securities, consolidate or amalgamate with, merge into or transfer or lease our assets substantially as an entirety to, any person of the persons specified in the applicable indenture. However, any successor person formed by any consolidation, amalgamation or merger, or any transferee or lessee of our assets