We inform you that today, Tuesday June 5, 2007 at 12:00 pm the Annual General Meeting of the Company's Shareholders took place in the Conference Center of the headquarters of The Ethniki Insurance Company, at Syngrou 103-105. The meeting was attended by 43 Shareholders or Shareholders' representatives who represented 102.614.822 shares or 79,48% of the total number of 129.106.800 shares of the company. The Annual General Meeting being in quorum approved the following issues that were topics of the Meeting's agenda:
1) Approval of the Board of Director's and Auditor's reports for the 2006 Annual Financial Statements (1.1.2006 - 31.12.2006).
2) Approval of the 2006 Annual Financial Statements (1.1.2006 - 31.12.2006) and the non-distribution of dividends for the year above.
3) Discharge of the members of the Board of Directors and the Auditor from any indemnity liability to the Annual Financial Statements and the financial management of year 2006 (1.1.2006 - 31.12.2006).
4) Ratification of the election of the non - executive member of the Board of Directors, Mr Alexandros Tourkolias of Georgios (29.5.2006), in the position of the non - executive member and Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr Efstratios-Georgios Arapoglou of Athanasios, whose place as Chairman was filled by the executive member and Company's Executive Director Mr Doucas-Pavlos Paleologos.
Ratification of the election of the non-executive members of the Board of Directors Messes Ioannis Petsalakis of Stavros and Nikolaos Kontosoros of Ioannis (29.11.2006) in the positions of the resigned non-executive members Messes Ioannis Kollias of Christos and Ioannis Politis of Nikolaos (29.11.2006).
Ratification of the independent non-executive member of the Board of Directors Mrs Chrysoula Kyriakopoulou, father's name Athanasios (27.4.2007) in the position of the resigned member Mr Vassilios Fourlis, father's name Stylianos (27.4.2007).
5) Appointment of the non-executive member of the Board of Directors Mr Vassilios Panagiotopoulos of Vassilios as independent non-executive member. 6) Approval of the fees of Members of the Board for the financial year 2006 according to the article 24, paragraph 2 of law 2190/1920 and pre-approval of Members' of the Board fees for the year 2007.
7) Approval for current year 2007 of the appointment, as Regular Auditor, Mr Andreas Barlikas and as Deputy Auditor, of Mr Nikolaos Sofianos from the audit firm DELOITTE HADJIPAVLOU SOFIANOS & CAMBANIS S.A.
8) Granting of special authorization according to the article 23 paragraph 1 of law 2190/1920 to the members of the Board of Directors, the General Managers, Deputy General Managers, and the Company's Directors to participate as Board Members or in the management of the subsidiaries and affiliate companies of The Ethniki as well as companies of The Ethniki Group and the NBG Group.
9) No reference of other announcements was made and no approval of other business was made.