Announcement
The Mandatory Tender Offer of J&P-AVAX SA to Athena SA shareholders will be active during the 31.07.2007 - 10.09.2007 period.
The Information Memorandum for the Mandatory Tender Offer will be available to the investment public for free in printed form during the afore-mentioned period at National Bank's branch network in Greece, as well as in electronic form for download at J&P-AVAX's coporate website (www.jp-avax.gr) as well as the website of advisors NBGI (www.nbgi.co.uk).
Important Notice
1. The Tender Offer is only being addressed to the persons to whom it may lawfully be addressed. Accordingly, the Tender Offer is not addressed and no copy of the current announcement, including any kind of relevant documents or materials, is allowed to be posted, forwarded, distributed or sent from anyone (including nominees, custodians or trustees) within, from or towards any country, excluding Greece, where the submission or the acceptance of the Tender Offer or the distribution of information about the Tender Offer is prohibited or is subject to restrictions (each such country an "Excluded Territory") nor towards citizens of the Excluded Territories, nor towards any person which is subject to the laws or jurisdiction of a Restricted Territory.
2. The Tender Offer does not take place nor will take place, directly or indirectly, within or towards, by post or by any other mean or way (including facsimile, email, phone and the internet) of the interstate or foreign trade or through national, state or other exchanges of all Excluded Territories, and the Tender Offer may not be validly accepted through the aforementioned means or ways or through any other way or mean from or within all Excluded Territories. Accordingly, copies of the current announcement and/or any other relevant document or material will not and must not be posted, forwarded, distributed or sent by any mean or way, directly or indirectly, towards, within or from any Excluded Territory and any person that might receive that kind of documents or materials (including nominees, custodians or trustees) is obliged not to forward, distribute, send or post towards, within or from any Excluded Territory and not to use any of the aforementioned means or ways in connection to the Tender Offer.
3. The Tender Offer is not addressed to and may not be accepted by any Shareholder who is subject to the laws or jurisdiction of any Excluded Territory. Through the acceptance of the Tended Offer any Accepting Shareholder declares and warrants that he is not subject to, for any reason, to the laws or jurisdiction of any Excluded Territory.