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Telefonica SAAnnouncement

29/10/2014 11:16

RNS Number : 0505U
Telefonica SA
10 October 2014
RAMIRO SNCHEZ DE LERN GARCA-OVIES
General Secretary and
Secretary to the Board of Directors
TELEFNICA, S.A.
 
TELEFNICA, S.A. as provided in article 82 of the Spanish Securities Market Act (Ley del Mercado de Valores), hereby reports the following
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
The Executive Commission of Telefnica, S.A. Board of Directors, at its meeting held today, has agreed that on the Executive Commission scheduled for November 14, 2014, the appropriate corporate resolutions to carry out the execution of the free-of-charge capital increase, related to the shareholder compensation by means of a scrip dividend ("Telefnica's Flexible Dividend"), approved by the Annual General Shareholder's Meeting held on May 30, 2014, should be adopted. Thereby, the five trading sessions prior to the abovementioned November 14 will determine the market price that will apply to the free-of-charge allotment rights purchase price setting formula and to the provisional number of shares to issue formula.
Also, it is expected that the free-of-charge allotment rights derived from the capital increase will be allotted to Telefnica, S.A. shareholders who appear as such in the book-entry records of Sociedad de Gestin de los Sistemas de Registro, Compensacin y Liquidacin de Valores, S.A.U. (Iberclear), at 11:59 p.m Madrid time, of the day of publication of the capital increase notice in the Official Commercial Registry Gazette (Boletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil), which is estimated to take place on November 18, 2014.
Madrid, October 10, 2014

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