REG - Soc EnergElectricaSA - Final Settlement of File against Court of Accounts

Societatea Energetica Electrica SAAnnouncement

10/04/2024 14:30

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RNS Number : 0770K  Societatea Energetica Electrica SA  10 April 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, the Romanian Capital Market Law no.
297/2004, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018, and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 10 April 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: The final settlement of file no.
2229/2/2017* (Court of Accounts)

 

Electrica informs shareholders about the fact that file no. 2229/2/2017* was
definitively resolved by the High Court of Cassation and Justice.

 

Following the decision of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the only
deviation (respectively correlative measure) from the decision of the Court of
Accounts no. 12/27.12.2016, partially preserved by the courts, as being
fundamental and legal, is the one from point 5, measure II.7 (regarding the
making of payments, between July 2013 and June 2014, in the estimated amount
of 36,385 lei, for expenses without a legal basis, respectively for expenses
with the rent of a building classified as official residences, from which the
general manager benefited, in the conditions that the housing was not granted
in accordance with the law), but for the rent related to the period 17 July
2013 - 1 September 2013.

 

The rest of the points and correlative measures from Decision no.
12/27.12.2016, contested by Electrica, were definitively annulled by the
courts, namely:

 

-     point 1 (measure II.3) - The hiring of funds in the estimated amount
of 224,622,940 lei (without VAT), for the execution of works related to the
objective "AMR system necessary for the measurement activity and consumption
dispatcher at level Electrica SA", for which the purchased goods, although
they were highlighted in the accounting, are not physically found in the
patrimony nor were they used for the activities carried out according to the
object of activity, being necessary for the performance of the activity of
other legal entities (the company's subsidiaries);

-     point 2 (measure II.4) - The unjustified increase in the expenses of
technical assistance services in the estimated amount of 2,337,657.50 lei
(without VAT), intended for carrying out the activities of other legal
entities (distribution subsidiaries);

-     point 3 (measure II.5) - Unjustified increase in operating expenses
with the amount of 74,667.60 lei (without VAT), representing maintenance
services for the equipment located in the communications infrastructure of the
subsidiaries, separate legal entities;

-     point 4 (measure II.6) - Unjustified increase in operating expenses
with services in the estimated amount of 273,500 lei (without VAT), for which
proof of their provision for the exclusive needs of the company was not
provided, respectively with the value of 4 technical studies purchased for
activities that are not found in the object of activity of the verified
entity, being related to activities belonging to other legal entities
(Electricity Distribution Subsidiaries), without being re-invoiced to them and
their consideration recovered, being technically approved for the activity of
electricity distribution carried out by the Electric Energy Distribution
Subsidiaries (South Transilvania, North Muntenia and North Transilvania),
organized as separate legal entities, a field in which the entity is not
licensed by ANRE to carry out activities, nor does it own such electrical
distribution networks;

-     partially point 5 (measure II.7), for the rent exceeding the period
17Jul2013-01Sep2013 - Making payments, during July 2013 - June 2014, in the
estimated amount of 36,385 lei, for expenses without a legal basis,
respectively for expenses with the rent of a building classified as official
residences, from which the general director benefited, in the conditions that
the housing was not granted in accordance with the law;

-     point 6 (measure II.8) - Unjustified increase in expenses amounting
to 2,400 lei, representing land valuation services, engaged in the same year,
several times, with the same valuer, for the same patrimonial elements;

-     point 7 (measure II.9) - Non-compliance with the legal provisions
regarding good management in the use of funds, respectively the employment of
services at overvalued prices by awarding a service contract to an economic
operator who presented a price offer higher than other competitors.

 

File no. 2229/2/2017* has as its object, mainly, the partial annulment of
decision no. 12/27.12.2016, issued by the director of Directorate 2 within
Department IV of the Court of Accounts, respectively regarding the
irregularities found in points 1 to 8, with the consequence of removing the
measures ordered in points 1, 3 to 9 inclusive, in the Electrica's charge, by
the contested decision, the partial cancellation of the Conclusion no.
12/27.02.2017 of the Court of Accounts by which the appeal promoted by
Electrica against the Decision 12/27.12.2016 was rejected, respectively
regarding the irregularities and the measures ordered above indicated, and
additionally the extension of the deadlines for the fulfillment of all the
measures ordered in the Electrica task by Decision no. 12/27.12.2016 with at
least 12 months.

 

Head of Legal

Stefania Andruhovici

 

 

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