Fondul Proprietatea

M&A Activity • Nov 6, 2020

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To: Bucharest Stock Exchange Financial Supervisory Authority London Stock Exchange

Current report according to Article 234 para. (1) letter k) 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 f) of the Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Title II, Issuers and Financial Instruments.

Important events to be reported:

Publication of the tender offer documentation in relation to the acceleration of the buy-back programme

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch ("the Investment Manager"), in its capacity of investment manager of Fondul Proprietatea SA ("the Fund"), would like to inform investors that following the publication, on 4 November 2020, of the current report announcing the approval by the Financial Supervisory Authority of the tender offer in relation to the ongoing buy-back programme (the "Offer"), the Offer documentation is now available free of charge to the public:

• a) in electronic format, on the websites of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (www.bvb.ro), London Stock Exchange (www.londonstockexchange.com), Swiss Capital S.A. (www.swisscapital.ro), as well as on the Fund's website (www.fondulproprietatea.ro), and
• b) in hard copy, upon request addressed to the Bidder or Swiss Capital, starting with the date of publication of the Tender Offer announcement. We would want to remind that the Investment Manager has decided that it is safer to restrict the access of any visitors to the Fund headquarters during pandemic period (at least when a state of emergency or a state of alert is in place), with the possibility of extending these measures even after it, according to of the evolution of events regarding COVID-19 in Romania.

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch acting as Investment Manager of FONDUL PROPRIETATEA S.A.

Johan MEYER Legal Representative

Report date: 6 November 2020

Name of the issuing entity: Fondul Proprietatea S.A.

Registered office: 78-80 Buzesti Street 7 th floor, district 1, Bucharest, 011017

Phone/fax number: Tel.: + 40 21 200 9600 Fax: + 40 21 200 9631

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 share capital: RON 3,749,282,292.08

Paid-up share capital: RON 3,560,099,870.08

Number of shares in issue: 7,210,158,254

Number of paid shares: 6,846,345,904

Regulated market on which the issued securities are traded: Shares on Bucharest Stock Exchange

GDRs on London Stock Exchange