EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
These Post-Effective Amendments relate to the following Registration Statements on Form
S-8
(the
“Registration Statements”) of RELX PLC (formerly known as Reed Elsevier PLC) and RELX N.V. (formerly known as Reed Elsevier N.V.) and are being filed to deregister all securities of RELX N.V. that had been registered for issuance on the
Registration Statements that remain unsold under such Registration Statements:
File
No. 333-143605
as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 8, 2007, pertaining to the registration of 44,000,000 ordinary shares of RELX PLC (“PLC
Ordinary Shares”), which shall remain registered, and 29,000,000 shares of RELX N.V. (“NV Ordinary Shares”) issuable under the RELX Group plc Share Option Scheme, the RELX Group plc Retention Share Plan, the Reed Elsevier Group plc
Bonus Investment Plan and the Reed Elsevier Group plc Long Term Incentive Share Option Scheme.
File
No. 333-167058
as filed with the Commission on May 25, 2010, pertaining to the registration of 18,000,000 PLC Ordinary Shares, which shall remain registered, and 12,000,000 NV Ordinary Shares,
issuable under the Reed Elsevier Group plc Lexis-Nexis Risk & Information Analytics Group Long Term Incentive Plan, the RELX Group plc Bonus Investment Plan 2010, the Reed Elsevier Group plc Growth Plan and the Reed Elsevier Group plc
Long-Term Incentive Plan 2010.
File
No. 333-191419
as filed with the Commission on
September 27, 2013, pertaining to the registration of (a) 5,500,000 PLC Ordinary Shares, which shall remain registered, issuable under the RELX Group plc Executive Share Option Scheme 2013 (the “2013 Option Scheme”), (b) 4,000,000 PLC
Ordinary Shares, which shall remain registered, issuable under the RELX Group plc Long-Term Incentive Plan 2013 (the “2013 LTIP”), (c) 4,000,000 NV Ordinary Shares issuable under the 2013 Option Scheme and (d) 2,500,000 NV Ordinary Shares
issuable under the 2013 LTIP.
File
No. 333-197580
as filed with the Commission on
July 23, 2014, pertaining to the registration of 500,000 PLC Ordinary Shares, which shall remain registered, and 350,000 NV Ordinary Shares issuable under the RELX Group plc Restricted Share Plan 2014.
On September 8, 2018, pursuant to the common draft terms of merger between RELX PLC and RELX N.V., dated May 4, 2018, RELX N.V.
merged with and into RELX PLC, with RELX PLC continuing as the surviving entity (the “Merger”). In connection with the Merger, the offerings by RELX N.V. pursuant to the Registration Statements have been terminated. In accordance with the
undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, RELX PLC, as
successor by merger, hereby removes from registration all securities of RELX N.V. registered but unsold under the Registration Statements as of the effective time of the Merger.