Fondul Proprietatea

M&A Activity • Mar 31, 2022

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To: Bucharest Stock Exchange Financial Supervisory Authority London Stock Exchange

Current report according Article 99 letter s) of the Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Title II, Issuers and Financial Instruments1

Important events to be reported:

Initiation of the listing of S.P.E.E.H. HIDROELECTRICA S.A. (the "Company") was approved in the general shareholders meeting of the Company

Franklin Templeton International Services S.À R.L., in its capacity as Alternative Investment Fund Manager and sole director of Fondul Proprietatea SA (the "Fund"), would like to inform shareholders that today, 31 March 2022, the general shareholders meeting of S.P.E.E.H. Hidroelectrica S.A. approved the initiation of the listing of the Company's shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange following a public offering of the Company's shares held by the Fund.

The approval is a positive development as it allows the Fund to explore, together with the advisors to be appointed in this process, a wider array of options with regards to a potential realization of all or part of its holding in the Company.

The Fund currently holds 19.94% of the issued share capital of the Company (representing 66.15 % of the Fund's NAV as at 28 February 2022).

Further current reports with additional information will be made as and when there will be relevant information.

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 Report date: 31 March 2022

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

Registered office: 76-80 Buzesti Street 7th floor, district 1, 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 3,334,342,422.84

Number of shares in issue and paid-up: 6,412,196,967

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

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