22 February 2024
RELX PLC
Publication of 2023 Annual Report
including Financial Statements and Corporate Responsibility Report
and Annual Report on Form 20-F
RELX PLC (the "Company") has today published
the following documents on its website at www.relx.com:
- Annual Report
including Financial Statements and Corporate Responsibility Report
for the year ended 31 December 2023 (the "2023 Annual
Report");
- Annual Report on Form
20-F for the year ended 31 December 2023 ("2023 Form
20-F")
- 2023 Annual Report
with Netherlands specific audit opinion (the "2023 NL Annual
Report"); and
The 2023 Annual Report will be submitted to the
National Storage Mechanism today and will shortly be available for
inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
The 2023 Form 20-F will be filed with the US
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") today and will be
available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
The 2023 NL Annual Report has been published in
accordance with the European Single Electronic Format requirements
as in force in the European Union and applicable to RELX by virtue
of its listing on Euronext Amsterdam and will be
submitted to the Dutch Authority for the Financial
Markets (AFM). The AFM publishes the report in its public register.
The total number of voting rights in RELX PLC's
issued share capital (exclusive of shares held in treasury) is
currently 1,883,186,240.
Directors'
Responsibility Statement
Additional information
required to be made available by the Company under Rule 6.3.5 of
the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the UK Financial Conduct
Authority, to the extent not already included in the RELX 2023
Results Announcement issued on 15 February 2024, is set out
below.
The following
responsibility statement is extracted from page 155 of the 2023
Annual Report and is repeated here solely for the purposes of
complying with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5.
Responsibility is for the full 2023 Annual Report, not the
information presented in this announcement or the RELX 2023 Results
Announcement.
Each of the Directors, whose
names and roles can be found on pages 108
and 109 of the 2023 Annual Report, confirms
that, to the best of their knowledge:
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the consolidated financial statements, prepared in
accordance with UK-adopted IAS in
conformity with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS), give a true and
fair view of the assets, liabilities,
financial position and profit or loss of the Group;
-
the individual Company financial statements,
prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 101
'Reduced Disclosure
Framework' (FRS
101), gives a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities,
financial position and profit or loss of the Company;
- the
Strategic report includes a fair review of the development and
performance of the business and the position of the Group, together
with a description of the principal and emerging risks and
uncertainties that it faces; and
- the
Annual Report and Financial Statements, taken as a whole, is fair,
balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary
for shareholders to assess the Company's position and performance, business
model and strategy.
Forward-looking
statements
The 2023 Annual Report and the 2023
Form 20-F contain forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the US Securities exchange Act of 1934,
as amended. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results or outcomes of RELX PLC (together
with its subsidiaries, "RELX", "we" or "our") to differ materially
from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. We consider
any statements that are not historical facts to be "forward-looking
statements". The terms "outlook", "estimate", "forecast",
"project", "plan", "intend", "expect", "should", "could", "will",
"believe", "trends" and similar expressions may indicate a
forward-looking statement. Important factors that could cause
actual results or outcomes to differ materially from estimates or
forecasts contained in the forward-looking statements include,
among others: regulatory and other changes regarding the collection
or use of personal data; changes in law and legal interpretations
affecting RELX intellectual property rights and internet
communications; current and future geopolitical, economic and
market conditions; changes in the payment model for RELX
scientific, technical and medical research products; competitive
factors in the
industries in which RELX operates and demand
for RELX products and services; inability to realise the future
anticipated benefits of acquisitions; compromises of RELX cyber
security systems or other unauthorised access to our databases;
changes in economic cycles, communicable disease epidemics or
pandemics, severe weather events, natural disasters and terrorism;
failure of third parties to whom RELX has outsourced business
activities; significant failure or interruption of RELX systems;
inability to retain high-quality employees and management; changes
in tax laws and uncertainty in their application; exchange rate
fluctuations; adverse market conditions or downgrades to the credit
ratings of our debt; changes in the market values of defined
benefit pension scheme assets and in the market-related assumptions
used to value scheme liabilities; breaches of generally accepted
ethical business standards or applicable laws; and other risks
referenced from time to time in the filings of RELX PLC with the US
Securities and Exchange Commission. You
should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date of the 2023 Annual
Report and the 2023 Form 20-F. Except as may be required by law, we
undertake no obligation to publicly update or release any revisions
to these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date of the 2023 Annual Report and the 2023 Form 20-F, or to
reflect events or circumstances after the date of the 2023 Annual
Report and the 2023 Form 20-F, or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
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Enquiries
Paul Abrahams (Media)
Tel: +44 20 7166 5724
paul.abrahams@relx.com
Colin Tennant (Investors)
Tel: +44 20 7166 5751
colin.tennant@relx.com
Notes for Editors
About
RELX
RELX is a global provider of information-based
analytics and decision tools for professional and business
customers. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has
offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 36,000 people,
of whom over 40% are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the
parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York
Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL;
Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalisation is
approximately £65bn, €76bn, $82bn.
*Note: Current market capitalisation can be
found at http://www.relx.com/investorcentre
RELX
PLC
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London WC2N 5JR
United Kingdom
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