The MEF announces an auction of BOTs for 27 September 2010, with settlement on 30 September 2010:
| Amount (in million euros) | Maturity | Days | |
| Six-month BOTs | 9,000 | 31.03.2011 | 182 |
Please note that on 30 September 2010, BOTs for 9,000 million euros will reach maturity.
BOTs are offered via a competitive auction and dealers' bids are expressed in terms of yield. Each operator taking part in the auction may submit up to a maximum of five purchase bids.
These treasury bills are subscribable for a minimum amount of one thousand euros. For each issue of BOTs, the fiscal price of reference is the weighted average price of the first tranche, calculated on the basis of the corresponding weighted average yield.
Yields indicated by dealers participating in the BOTs auctions, expressed in percentage terms, may vary, in respect of all types of securities, by 0.001% or multiple thereof. Bids without yield reference will not be admitted to auction. Each bid will not be under one and a half million euros (1,500,000€).
Dealers set forth in the decrees authorising the issuance of the BOTs are eligible for participation in the auction.
In application of the provisions set forth in Sec.II - Title V of Legislative Decree 24 June 1998, no. 213 and related implementation provisions on the dematerialization of Government securities, BOTs are represented by account registrations entered in favour of the entitled. The Banca d'Italia automatically enters the BOT amounts subscribed at auction and settles them through the clearing and settlement facility for financial instruments, entering the date of settlement as value date. On the basis of allocations, the broker allocatees will credit the related amounts to the subscribers' accounts.
Purchase bids must be submitted to the Banca d'Italia strictly by means of the national interbanking network, within and no later than 11am of 27 September 2010, in compliance with the procedures and provisions set forth in the issuance decree. Please note that should there be a malfunctioning of the system, thereby preventing the transmission of messages on the network, requests for participation in the auction must be sent via fax.
Bids received after the deadline set in the issuance decrees will not be considered. Bids in replacement of previously submitted requests will be taken into consideration only if they arrive by the aforementioned deadline. Requests cannot be withdrawn after the aforementioned deadline.
Should any dealer's bids exceed, including as a whole, the amount offered by the Treasury, they will be taken into consideration starting from the one with the lowest yield, up to the amount offered, unless otherwise provided for in the issuance decree.
State bond specialists are eligible for participation in the additional placement of six-month BOTs, which is set to take place automatically on 28 September 2010.
The amount of the additional tranche is fixed at 10% of the nominal amount offered in the issuance auction. This percentage is the minimum amount offered in the additional placement, which the Treasury may increase after the closing of the issuance auction to satisfy the demand expressed by dealers. In that event, a specific press release will be published.
Specialists' who did not participate in the issuance auction shall not be eligible to participate in the additional placement. Allocation will take place at the weighted average yield set in the issuance auction. The additional placement procedure will follow the provisions set forth in the issuance decree. Specifically, purchase bids must be submitted within and no later than 3:30pm of 28 September 2010.
Outstanding BOTs at 15 September 2010 amounted to 143,762 million euros, of which 3,500 million euros at three months, 56,340 million euros at six months and 83,922 million euros at twelve months.