The company DIAGNOSTIC & THERAPEUTIC CENTER OF ATHENS HYGEIA S.A. (hereafter the Company) announces to the investment community that from November 11, 2007 until December 14, 2007, Period of Pre-emption Right Exercise for the issuance of the Convertible Bond Loan (hereafter Convertible Bond) that was decided and approved respectively from the Postponed Ordinary General Meeting of the Company?s shareholders at July 18, 2006 and the first repeat Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company?s shareholders at February 28, 2007, the Convertible Bond was covered at circa 63.1% with the deposit of EUR 189,303,003 that corresponds to 42,067,334 register bonds convertible to register ordinary shares of the Company, while 24,602,666 bonds were indisposed.
According to the decisions of the aforementioned General Meetings of the Company's shareholders, in case the amount of the issue of the Convertible Bond is not fully covered, the Convertible Bond will be issued up to the amount covered, according to the article 3α paragraph 3 and 13α paragraph 1 of the Law2190/1920, which authorized the Board of Directors of the Company in case the bonds are not covered from the existing shareholders, to dispose the indisposed bonds, freely at the discretion of the BoD, according to article 13 paragraph 5γ of the Law 2190/1920, as it was in effect during the decisions of the abovementioned General Meetings.
The Company through a new announcement shall notify the investing public for the distribution of the indisposed bonds of the Convertible Bond.