Due to the conditions that prevail in the international markets and directly affect the Greek Capital Market, as they have been analyzed both in the announcement of the Capital Market Commission and the announcements of the Athens Exchange in the previous week, the Athens Exchange and the Athens Derivatives Clearing House decided to take the following measures, which express the will of all the supervisory authorities of the Greek Capital Market regarding the increase of the cost of investment behaviors that include a high degree of risk:

1. Increase of the securities borrowing interest rate by 1% for the investors that are interested in proceeding to a Reverse Stock Repo.

2. Increase by 10% of the percentage of securities retained by the Athens Derivatives Clearing House as reserve.

Consequently, the said percentage will amount to 20% of the borrowing open position of the Athens Derivatives Clearing House from investors.

The above measures came into effect, as of the trading session on 07.10.2002.

3. The margins of the Reverse Stock Repos agreements increase by 5% and will amount to 130%.

4. The margins of the Futures and Options in the FTSE/ASE - 20 and FTSE/ASE - Mid 40 Indices increase by 3% and amount to 15% respectively.

5. Particularly regarding the derivative products with the following shares as underlying value the 3% increase of margins percentage applies as follows:

The above margins percentages will come into effect for the open positions that will arise at the trading session on 08.10.2002.