The Company hereby announces that, pursuant to the relevant resolution of its Shareholders' Ordinary General Meeting dated 30.06.2006, the dividend for the financial year 2005 amounts to 0.95 Euro per share.
Beneficiaries of the dividend are all shareholders of the Company by the expiry of the session of Athens Stock Exchange on Monday, July 3rd, 2006. The shares will be traded ex-dividend at the Athens Exchange as of Tuesday, July 4, 2006.
The payment of the dividend for the year 2005 will begin on Wednesday, July 12th, 2006.
In accordance with article 329 of the Athens Exchange Regulations and article 39 of the Central Securities Depository, dividend shall be paid by EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A.
Shareholders shall collect their dividend as follows:
1. Through their Administrators (custodians/ banks or Stock Exchange member firms), as long as such administrators are entitled to collect the dividend.
2. Through EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. network of branches, upon producing documentation of their Investor Account in the Dematerialised Securities System (DSS), as well as their identity card, in case they have not granted their Administrator with the relevant authorisation to collect the payable dividend or their shares are kept with the Central Securities Depository in the Special Account or their shares have not been dematerialized yet.
A duly authorised third party other than the shareholder him or herself may collect the dividend only by presenting the relevant authorisation document attested by a Police or other competent authority. Payment certificates for tax use shall be issued by each shareholder's Administrator or by the payer bank.