Pursuant to article 278 of the Athens Stock Exchange Regulation, EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A. announces that the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of its Shareholders, held on June 5, 2006, with 264 shareholders present, representing 70,460,314 shares, i.e. 53.2212% of the paid up share capital, adopted the following resolutions:
1. Approved, the Annual Financial Statements for the financial year 2005 and the transfer of own shares reserve amounting to euro 43,999,814.20 to the "Profit and Loss Balance Carried Forward" account.
2. Discharged the Members of the Bank s Board of Directors and the Auditors of Emporiki Bank from any liability for indemnity regarding the annual financial statements for the year 2005.
3. Approved the renumerations of the members of the Bank s Board of Directors for the financial year 2005 amounting to euro 88,360.00 and pre-approved their remunerations for the year 2006 of an amount close to euro 90,000,000. These amounts also include the remunerations of non-executive members of the Board of Directors.
4. Approved the remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors who are also members of the Audit Committee of the amount of euro 21,600.00, and pre-approved their remunerations for the year 2006 of the amount of euro 27,600.00, which include the remunerations of a member of the Board of Directors who participates in the recently established Risk Management Committee.
5. Elected auditors for the audit of the annual financial statements of the Bank and its Group of Companies for the year 2006 from certified auditors PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS. The Regular and Substitute Auditors appointed are as
follows: Regular Auditor: Antonios Papageorgiou, son of Pantelis.
Substitute Auditor: Konstantinos Mihalatos, son of Ioannis.
6. Approved the granting of permission, pursuant to article 23 par. 1 of C.L. 2190/1920, to the members of the Board of Directors and to the Managers of the Bank to participate to Boards of Directors or in the Management of the Group s companies pursuing similar or related business goals.
7. Ratified the election of new members to the Board of Directors in replacement of those members who have resigned. In particular: The election of Mr. Dimitrios Prokopiou, son of Ioannis, to replace the resigned Mrs. Angeliki Frangou, daughter of Nikolaos.The election of Mr. Spyridon Lorentziadis, son of Loudovikos-Louis, to replace the resigned Mr. Nikolaos Beis, son of Theodoros.
8. Other issues - Announcements. There were no other issues discussed and nor any announcements made.