Pursuant to the Regulation of the Athens Stock Exchange, "EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A." announces that the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of its Shareholders, held on May 5th, 2010, with 36 shareholders present, in person or through representation, representing 492.550.347 shares, of a total of 512.228.885 shares, i.e. 96,158% of the paid up share capital, adopted the following resolutions:
1. Approved, the Annual Financial Accounts for the financial year 2009 and decided not to distribute a dividend during the above-mentioned financial year.
2. Discharged the Members of the Bank s Board of Directors and the Auditors of Emporiki Bank from any compensation liability regarding the annual financial accounts for the year 2009.
3. Approved the remunerations of the members of the Bank s Board of Directors for the financial year 2009 and pre-approved their remunerations for the year 2010.
4. Approved the remunerations of the members of the Board of Directors who are also members of the Audit Committee for the financial year 2009 and pre-approved their remunerations for the year 2010.
5. Elected auditors for the audit of the annual financial statements of the Bank and its Group of Companies for the year 2010 from certified auditors PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS. The Regular and Substitute Auditors appointed are as follows: Ordinary Auditor: Dimitrios Sourbis, son of Andreas. Substitute Auditor: Kyriakos Riris, son of Georgios.
6. Approved the granting of permission, pursuant to article 23, par.1, of Codified Law 2190/1920, to the members of the Board of Directors and to the Managers of the Bank, to participate to Boards of Directors or in the Management of the Group s companies pursuing similar or related business goals.
7. Issue No 7, referring to the validation of the election of new Members of the Board of Directors, replacing those who resigned, was not discussed as there is still no replacement of the resigned BoD Member.
8. Validated the election of the Members of the Audit Committee, according to the provisions of Law 3693/2008. The Audit Committee of the Bank is consisted as follows:
Chairman: Mr. Nikolaos Ebeoglou, Non Executive BoD Member.
Members: Mr. Yves Nanquette, Non Executive BoD Member.
Mrs. Emmanuelle Yannakis, Non Executive BoD Member.
Mr. Konstantinos Papadiamantis, Independent Non Executive BoD Member.
9. Approved, pursuant to article 23a of Codified Law 2190/1920, the Contracts made between CASA Group and the Bank s Group and specifically:
a) The Capital Advance Agreement signed on 18 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Credit Agricole S.A.
b) The Undated Deeply Subordinated Hybrid Capital Loan Agreement signed on 19 June 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Credit Agricole S.A.
c) The Assets and Liabilities Management Agreement signed on 29 May 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Credit Agricole S.A.
d) The Subordinated Floating Rate Loan Agreement signed on 23 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Albania S.A.
e) The Subordinated Floating Rate Loan Agreement signed on 15 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Cyprus LTD.
f) The Subordinated Loan Agreement signed on 18 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Romania S.A.
g) The Back-up Liquidity Line Agreement signed on 16 November 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Romania S.A.
h) The Subordinated Floating Rate Loan Agreement signed on 29 May 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Bulgaria EAD.
i) The Loan Consolidation Agreement signed on 22 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Cyprus LTD.
j) The Loan Consolidation Agreement signed on 22 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Bulgaria EAD.
k) The Loan Consolidation Agreement signed on 21 December 2009 between Emporiki Bank and Emporiki Bank - Albania S.A.
l) Τhe Notes Purchase and Cancellation Agreement signed on 29 June 2009 between Emporiki Group Finance PLC (EGF) and Emporiki Bank.
10. Other issues - Announcements
There were no other issues discussed and nor any announcements made.