On June 15, 2007, at 12.00 noon, took place the Annual General Meeting of VIOHALCO, HELLENIC COPPER AND ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY, S.Α. at the ATHENS IMPERIAL hotel, Karaiskaki Square - Athens, following the pertinent notice of the Company?s Board of Directors dated May 23, 2007. 126.905.063 shares were represented, namely 63,62% of the total number of the 199.474.091 shares, into which the Company?s paid up share capital is divided. On the Items of the Agenda the General Meeting passed its resolutions as follows:
1. Approved the Annual Financial Statements for the fiscal year 2006, together with the reports of the Directors and the Auditors on them.
2. Discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the Auditors from any responsibility for damages, concerning the year .2006.
3. Approved the net profits? appropriation, for the fiscal year 2006, as well as the distribution of dividend, amounting to Euro 0,080 per share. It was decided that the beneficiaries of the dividend would be the shareholders of the Company at the end of the session of the Athens Exchange, on June 28, 2007. From June 29, 2007, the Company?s shares will be negotiated, without the right to the 2006 dividend. The payment of the dividend will start on July 9, 2007, through the network of the ALPHA BANK branches, until the end of the year.
4. Appointed as certified auditor, for the current financial year 2007, the audit firm KPMG Kyriakou Certified Auditors, S.A., their remuneration to be fixed according to their pertinent offer.
Regarding the remaining two items of the Agenda, concerning the election of the members of a new Board of Directors and the amendment of the article 2 of the Company?s Articles of Association, the General Meeting did not pass any resolution, due to the fact that the required quorum of 2/3 of the total paid up share capital, was not achieved.