Notice of Meeting
Banco Comercial Portugues S.A.
20 September 2000
BANCO COMERCIAL PORTUGUES, S.A.
General Meeting of Shareholders
CALL NOTICE
I convene the shareholders of Banco Comercial Portugues, S.A. to attend the
General Meeting to be held at 12 a.m. on 16 October 2000, at the 'Palacio da
Bolsa', in the city of Oporto, due to the lack of adequate room at the
registered office, with the following agenda:
1) To resolve upon the project to merge Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, S.A. by
incorporation into BCP IF, SGPS, Sociedade Unipessoal Lda, and,
subsequently, the latter into Banco Comercial Portugues, S.A.;
2) To resolve upon the project to split and merge Banco de Investimento
Imobiliario, S.A. and the project to merge Banco Mello Imobiliario, S.A.
and BMI - Sociedade Gestora de Participacoes Sociais, S.A. by
incorporation into Banco Comercial Portugues, S.A.
The proposals to be submitted to the General Meeting by the Board of Directors,
as well as the reports that are legally required to be attached to the same and
other preparatory information, are available to the shareholders at the
registered office of the Company since the legal and statutory date.
Essential conditions for attending the Meeting and exercising the voting rights:
Each 1,000 Euro of capital corresponds to one vote, representation by
proxy being available to shareholders;
As an essential condition for attending the Meeting, a shareholder must
prove his shareholder quality on the fifteenth day prior to the date
scheduled for the Meeting, and maintain such condition at the time of
the Meeting. Such fact must be confirmed by the financial institution
where the shares are registered with, in accordance with the law;
The holders of fewer than 1,000 shares may aggregate their interests, in
all remaining being applicable the terms and limits of the law and of the
by-laws, namely its article thirteen;
The documents for the voting by mail and for the nomination of shareholder
representatives, if the interested shareholder is a company, must be
addressed to the Chairman of the General Meeting of Shareholders and
delivered to the Company before 5 p.m. of the second working day prior to
the date of the General Meeting.
Under number 4 of article 100 of the Companies Code it is announced that the
aforementioned merger and split projects have been registered at the Oporto and
Lisbon Registers of Commerce, the projects and attached documentation being
available at the registered office of the companies for consultation by their
shareholders and creditors.
Under the Securities Code, the shareholders bearing voting rights can
exercise them by mail. For such purpose, shareholders must apply to Banco
Comercial. Portugues, S.A. - Direccao de Titulos - Praca de D. Joao I, 28
- 4000-295 Porto, by means of registered letter with a notice of receipt,
for the necessary documentation to be sent to them. The shareholders'
request must be received by the Company, or delivered at any branch of
Banco Comercial Portugues, until the thirteenth day prior to the Meeting
date. The documents for the voting by mail, as well as the certification
of shareholder quality, must be delivered to the Company before 5 p.m. of
the second working day prior to the date of the General Meeting.
Oporto, 6 September 2000
The Chairman of the General Meeting of Shareholders (Luis Francisco Valente de
Oliveira)