ATEbank announces that its Annual Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting was held on May 23, 2007. Present at the Bank's General Meeting were 39 Shareholders (in person or by proxy) representing a total of 704,423,394 shares i.e. 77.80 % of the Bank's paid up share capital, and adopted the following resolutions:
1. Approved the Board of Directors' Report on the annual financial statements for the year 2006.
2. Approved the annual financial statements and the Auditors' Report for the year 2006, as well as a dividend distribution of euro 0.09 per share for the year 2006. As ex-dividend date was determined the 29th of May, 2007. The dividend payment will commence on June 6, 2007.
3. Approved the consolidated annual financial statements of the ATEbank's Group of companies and the Auditors' Report for the financial year 2006.
4. Approved the discharge of the members of the Board of Directors and the Auditors from any liability for the year 2006.
5. Elected the audit firms KPMG Kyriakou Certified Auditors S.A. and BAKER TILLY HELLAS S.A. for the purpose of auditing the Bank's financial statements and the Group of companies' consolidated financial statements for the year 2007.
6. Approved the remuneration received by the Chairman, Vice Chairmen, non executive members and the Secretary of the Bank's Board of Directors for the year 2006 and pre-approved their remuneration for the year 2007.
7. Approved the remuneration received by the members of the Audit Committee for the year 2006 and pre-approved it for the year 2007.
8. Ratified the election of Mr P. Drossos as a new member of the Board of Directors in replacement of the resigned member Mr Ch. Dimitriou.
9. Elected new Board of Directors and determined the independent - non executive members, in accordance with the provisions of the law 3016/2002, as currently in force. The composition of the new Board of Directors is as follows: -Miliakos Dimitrios, -Drougas Vassilios, -Varagis Panagiotis, -Konstantinides Grigorios, -Drossos Panagiotis, -Revithis Sotirios (independent non executive member), -Katsaounis Ioannis, -Balios Nikolaos (independent non executive member), -Beredimas Vassilios
- Alexiades Grigorios, -Tsagarakis Ioannis.
10. Approved the renewal of the insurance contract between ATEbank and ATE Insurance covering the members of the BoD and the administrative executives on liability towards third parties.
11. Approved the permission to the members of the BoD and Bank's executives to participate in the B.o.D. or in the management of ATEbank's Group of companies or in companies pursuing similar or related goals.
12. The A.G.M. has been informed about the B.o.D. decisions related to the acquired stake in MINDBANK Romania and AIK BANKA Serbia.