Payment of capital
Article 2
1. With effect from 1 January 2008, the Central Bank of Cyprus and the Central Bank of Malta shall pay up the remaining parts of their shares in the ECB's subscribed capital, which correspond to EUR 6 691 401,01 for the Central Bank of Cyprus and EUR 3 332 306,98 for the Central Bank of Malta. 2. Each of the above mentioned NCBs shall pay the amount specified for it in paragraph 1 to the ECB on 2 January 2008, by means of a separate transfer through the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system (TARGET/TARGET2). 3. Each of the above mentioned NCBs shall, by means of a separate TARGET/TARGET2 transfer, pay to the ECB on 2 January 2008 the interest accruing during the period from 1 January 2008 until 2 January 2008 on the amount due to the ECB under paragraph 2. 4. Any interest accruing under paragraph 3 shall be calculated on a daily basis, using the actual over-360-day method of calculation, at a rate equal to the marginal interest rate used by the Eurosystem in its most recent main refinancing operation.