According to article 279 of the Athens Exchange Regulation, OPAP S.A. announces to its shareholders that, during the Annual Ordinary General Assembly of its shareholders on June 6th, 2007, it resolved the distribution to shareholders of the total dividend for the fiscal year 2006 of 1.58 Euro per share. It is reminded that the Board of Directors, in its session of November 29th 2006, had decided the distribution of 0.55 Euro per share as an interim dividend, which was paid to the entitled shareholders on December 19, 2006. Entitled to the remained dividend of fiscal year 2006 amounted 1.03 Euro per share are the shareholders of the Company, after the end of the ATHEX session of Friday June 8th, 2007, according to the settlement procedure of the Hellenic Exchanges S.A. (former Central Securities Depository S.A.). As of Monday, June 11th, 2007 the shares will be traded without the remained dividend right for the financial year 2006.
The remained dividend payment will take place on June 19th, 2007, via the paying bank, the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE, as follows:
1. Via the Operators of the Dematerialized Security System, according to Articles 329 of the ATHEX regulation and article 39 of the Regulation of the Central Securities Depository.
2. Via the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE branch network for those shareholders requested to be exempted from their Account Operator of the Dematerialized Security System for the collection of their dividends or whose shares are kept in the Special Account of Hellenic Exchanges.
3. For any of the shareholders who, for whatever reason, crediting through their Operators is not possible, it will be possible to collect their dividend from June 27th, 2007 via the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE branch network.
Dividend collection for the abovementioned cases 2 and 3 is possible until June 18th, 2008 with the notification of their Code Account Number of the Dematerialized Security System and upon presentation of the Shareholder's Identity Card, either in person or by a legally authorized third party. Following the expiration of the abovementioned date (18/06/2008), dividend payment will take place only at the Company's offices (62, Kifissou Avenue, 12104, Peristeri-Athens, tel.: +30 210 5798800, Shareholders Services Department). For further information shareholders are asked to contact the Custodian Department of the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE, tel.: +30 210 3340633. Dividends which have not been collected within five (5) years are prescribed to the Greek State.