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To:

Bucharest Stock Exchange

Financial Supervisory Authority

London Stock Exchange

Current report according to Article 79 of the Issuer Law no. 24/2017, Article 145 para. (1) of the Financial Supervisory Authority Regulation no. 5/2018 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, as well as the provisions of Article 99 letter q1) of the Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Title II, Issuers and Financial Instruments.

Important events to be reported:

Payment of dividends approved by the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 30 April 2024

Franklin Templeton International Services S.À R.L., in its capacity as alternative investment fund manager and sole director (the "Fund Manager") of Fondul Proprietatea S.A. (the "Fund"), would like to inform shareholders that the Fund will start the payment of dividends on 7 June 2024 ("Payment Date").

The gross value of the dividend is RON 0.06 per share, as approved on 30 April 2024, during the Fund's Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders.

Holders of fully paid-up shares registered in the Fund's shareholders' registry kept by the Central Depositary, on the Registration Date of 17 May 2024, are entitled to receive this dividend. The Ex - Date is 16 May 2024.

The payment shall be performed as follows:

  1. directly by the custodian bank or broker for shareholders having a custodian/brokerage account;
  2. for all other shareholders:
    1. by the Central Depositary, through BRD Groupe Societe Generale (acting as payment agent and further referred to as the "Payment Agent"), for bank transfers when the supporting documentation required by the Central Depositary, along with a payment request, have been submitted.
    2. by the Payment Agent for cash payments at any of its agencies, or by bank transfer (when the supporting documentation required by the Payment Agent, along with a payment request, have been submitted to the Payment Agent).

More details regarding this dividend payment, including its tax implications, documents to be submitted to benefit of certain tax exemptions or lower tax rates, can be found in the general payment procedure available on the

Report date:

13 May 2024

Name of the issuing entity:

Fondul Proprietatea S.A.

Registered office: 76-80Buzesti Street 7th floor, 1st district, Bucharest, 011017

Phone/fax number:

Tel.: + 40 21 200 96 00

Fax: +40 31 630 00 48

Email:

office@fondulproprietatea.ro

Internet:

www.fondulproprietatea.ro

Sole Registration Code with the Trade Register Office:

18253260

Order number in the Trade Register:

J40/21901/2005

Subscribed and paid-up share capital:

RON 2,947,779,186.56

Number of shares in issue and paid-up:

5,668,806,128

Regulated market on which the issued securities are traded:

Shares on Bucharest Stock Exchange

GDRs on London Stock

Exchange

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Fund's webpage here.

In relation to the said tax exemptions and reduced tax rates, we would like to emphasize that all documents and/or clarifications entitling shareholders to benefit from a reduced withholding tax rate or tax exemption must be provided to the Fund by 24 May 2024 (as further detailed in the said payment procedure). Given that some tax issues may require a more detailed analysis or additional clarifications, it is strongly recommended that the necessary documents to be submitted to the Fund prior to 24 May 2024.

Also, as an important notice to shareholders, this dividend payment is subject to the general statute of limitation. As such, shareholders may request the payments only within a 3-year term starting with the Payment Date, namely by 7 June 2027.

Franklin Templeton International Services S.À R.L, in its capacity of alternative investment fund manager of FONDUL PROPRIETATEA S.A.

Johan MEYER Permanent representative

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