The Board of Directors of the Athens Stock Exchange on its session, decided due to the extraordinary circumstances, to change the duration of the ASE trading session for the time period from Tuesday, September 18, 2001 until Friday, September 21, 2001. The trading session will start at 12:00 and will close at 18:00 local time. In harmonization with the above, the trading session today Monday, September 17, 2001 will close at 18:00 local time.