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Societatea Energetica Electrica SAAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 6980P  Societatea Energetica Electrica SA  11 December 2024

To:                                 Bucharest Stock Exchange
(BSE)

                                       London Stock
Exchange (LSE)

Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)

 

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: 11 December 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 3,395,530,040

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

Significant events to be reported: The resolution of the Extraordinary General
Meeting of Shareholders of Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. ("Electrica"
or the "Company") of 11 December 2024

Electrica hereby informs that, on 11 December 2024, the Extraordinary General
Meeting of Shareholders (EGMS) of Electrica took place at the Company's
headquarters in Bucharest, 9 Grigore Alexandrescu St., District 1, postal code
010621, "Radu Zane" conference room, starting at 10:00 o'clock (Romanian
time), respectively, being duly held in accordance with the legal and
statutory provisions upon the first calling.

The EGMS of Electrica was attended by the shareholders registered in the
shareholder's register kept by Depozitarul Central S.A. as of 13 November
2024, set as reference date, in person, by representative or through vote by
correspondence, the quorum met being 88.2396% of the total voting rights and
of the share capital of the Company.

The meeting was chaired by Mr. Dumitru Chirita, the Chairman of Electrica's
Board of Directors.

Within the EGMS, Electrica's shareholders approved all the items of the agenda
with the majority of the votes held by the present or validly represented
shareholders, respectively:

1.   Approval of the guarantee to be issued by ELSA for a term loan in the
amount of up to EUR 200,000,000 or the equivalent in RON that the company
Distributie Energie Electrica Romania S.A. (DEER) will contract from the
European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance the investment plan for the period
2025-2027, the value of the guarantee provided by ELSA being of maximum EUR
240,000,000 or the equivalent in RON, subject to the conditions provided for
in the Substantiation Note. The loan from EIB (which can be signed in one or
several agreements) to be contracted by DEER will be guaranteed by ELSA
through an independent first call guarantee (or another form), valid until the
full fulfillment of the obligations arising from the agreement/ guarantee.

2.   Approval to empower the Board of Directors of ELSA to take, in the name
and on behalf of ELSA, within the limit of the approved value limits, all the
required measures in order to initiate, carry out and finalize the guarantee
operation referred to in item 1, including by, but not limited to, the
following:

a)   To represent it with full powers before banks, financial institutions,
affiliates and any third parties;

b)   To negotiate and accept the contractual clauses of the guarantees,
which will include, but are not limited to, the level of costs and fees, types
of costs/amounts covered by the guarantees, terms of the guarantees, duration
of the guarantees, obligations, prohibitions, and liabilities of the
guarantor, as well as the reimbursement of legal consultancy costs for the
benefit of the EIB (legal opinion on the contract), cases of fault, early
repayment, the right to distribute/receive dividends;

c)   To negotiate and accept the type, form and conditions of the
guarantees;

d)   To sign the related guarantees contracts/the related guarantee, any
additional agreements thereto, as well as any other necessary documents in
connection with these contracts/documents;

e)   To fulfill any other legal activity, it deems necessary for the
above-mentioned purpose.

The Board of Directors will be able to subdelegate to the executive management
of ELSA the fulfilment of all/certain operational activities in order to
implement the operations referred to in item 1.

The above mandate, including with regard to sub-delegation, is granted
including for any other amendments to guarantee contracts/related guarantees,
within the limit of the approved value limits, including but not limited to
the purpose, type, use, change of duration of the established guarantees.

3.   The ratification of the signing of the Addendum to the Facility
Agreement dated November 03, 2021, with subsequent amendments and completions,
in the amount of RON 450,000,000, signed between ELSA, as Borrower, and Erste
Group Bank S.A. and Raiffeisen Bank S.A., as Lenders, by which the parties
agreed:

i.   Extension of the Termination Date by four years;

ii.  Extension of the Availability Period by one year;

4.   Approval of:

4.1. Empowering the Board of Directors of ELSA to take, on behalf of and for
ELSA, within the approved value limits, all necessary measures regarding the
Facility Agreement dated 03 November 2021, with subsequent amendments and
completions, including but not limited to the following:

a)   to represent it with full powers before banks, financial institutions,
affiliates, and any third parties;

b)   to negotiate and accept contractual clauses, which will include, but
not be limited to, the level of costs and fees as well as the reimbursement of
legal consultancy costs in favor of the banks, if applicable (legal opinion on
the contract), cases of fault, early repayment, the right to
distribute/receive dividends;

c)   to sign any additional acts to the Facility Agreement, as well as any
other documents necessary in connection with these facility/documents;

d)   to carry out any other legal activity that it will consider necessary
for the above-mentioned purpose.

 

4.2. Empowering the Board of Directors of ELSA to negotiate, accept, and sign,
on behalf of and for ELSA, the amount, type, form, and conditions of the
guarantees related to the Facility Agreement dated 03 November 2021, with
subsequent amendments and completions.

 

5.   The Board of Directors may delegate to the executive management of ELSA
the performance of all/ part of the operational activities for the
implementation of the operations mentioned in items 4.1, and 4.2 above.

6.   Granting the mandates from 4.1 and 4.2, including the possibility of
sub-delegation from item 5, including for any other modifications (i) of the
facility agreement - within the approved value limits for loan, and (ii) of
the related guarantee/guarantees, including but not limited to the purpose,
type, use, modification of the contract duration and/or the constituted
guarantees.

7.   Empowering the Chairperson of the Meeting, the meeting secretary and
the technical secretary to sign together the EGMS resolution and to perform
individually, and not together, any act or formality required by law for the
registration of the EGMS resolution with the Trade Register Office attached to
the Bucharest Tribunal, as well as for the publication of the EGMS resolution
according to the law.

 

Chairman of the BoD

Mihai Diaconu

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