Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-031790
Chunk: 216

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 424B2
Chunk 216
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 without the prior specific written approval of the account holder. Selling Restrictions United Kingdom Prohibition of Sales to U.K. Retail Investors Unless otherwise specified in any agreement between us and the underwriters, dealers and/or agents, any underwriter, dealer or agent in connection with an offering of securities or any investments representing securities of any series will represent, warrant and agree that it has not offered, sold or otherwise made available, and will not offer, sell or otherwise make available any securities to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this provision, the expression “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of the following:

| • |     | a retail client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of 
 domestic law of the U.K. by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA”); or             |

| • |     | a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the                                                                                                                                        
 “FSMA”) and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it 
 forms part of domestic law of the U.K. by virtue of the EUWA; or                                                                                                                                                                           |

| • |     | not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law of 
 the U.K. by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK Prospectus Regulation”); and                                              |

the expression “offer” includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the securities or investments to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the securities or investments. Public Offer Selling Restriction Under The UK Prospectus Regulation If the relevant agreement between us and the underwriters, dealers and/or agents in connection with an offering of securities or any investments representing securities of any series specifies that the restriction set out under “Prohibition of Sales to U.K. Retail Investors” above does not apply, and unless otherwise specified in any -83-

agreement between us and the underwriters, dealers and/or agents in relation to the distribution of the securities