Threshold notification <5%

Societatea Energetica Electrica SA

19 January 2024

 

To:                              Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)

                                    Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)

                                    London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Current report in compliance with the Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 19 January 2024

Company name: Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. (Electrica)

Headquarters: 9 Grigore Alexandrescu Street, 1^st District, Bucharest, Romania

Phone/fax no.: 004-021-2085999/ 004-021-2085998

Fiscal Code: RO 13267221

Trade Register registration number: J40/7425/2000

Subscribed and paid in share capital: RON 3,464,435,970

Regulated market where the issued securities are traded: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Significant events to be reported: Notification of major holdings (below 5% of the voting rights of Electrica) from EBRD

Electrica informs its investors and shareholders that, on 19 January 2024, the Company received the Notification of major holdings from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), attached to the present report.

According to the notification, on 15 January 2024, EBRD sold 205,505 Electrica shares, dropping below the 5% threshold provided by article 71 of Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, thus reaching a holding of 4.9502% of the voting rights of Electrica calculated on the basis of all the shares to which voting rights are attached, even if for the treasury shares (6,890,593 treasury shares) the exercise thereof is suspended, according to the provisions of art. 71 (1) of Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations.

The present current report is issued in accordance with the provisions of art. 74 para (6) of Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations.

Chief Executive Officer                                             

Alexandru-Aurelian Chirita                       

 http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/3435A_1-2024-1-19.pdf

 

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