Fondul Proprietatea

Transaction in Own Shares • Mar 21, 2017

To: Bucharest Stock Exchange Financial Supervisory Authority London Stock Exchange

Current report according to Article 99 (s) of the Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange Market Operator, Title II, Issuers and Financial Instruments

Important events to be reported:

Exchange rate applicable to the acquisition price for the GDRs repurchased in the public tender offer

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch, in its capacity as Investment Manager of Fondul Proprietatea SA ("the Fund"), would like to inform shareholders that the exchange rate applicable to the acquisition price for the GDRs repurchased in the public tender offer launched in relation to the acceleration of the seventh buy-back programme was set at RON 4.2304 per 1 USD, in accordance with the tender documentation.

As such, the USD equivalent of the purchase price of RON 45.50 per GDR, to be paid by the Fund for the GDRs, is USD 10.7555 per GDR.

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch, in its capacity of Investment Manager of FONDUL PROPRIETATEA S.A.

Johan Meyer Legal Representative

Report date: 21 March 2017

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

Registered office: 78-80 Buzesti St., 7th floor, district 1, Bucharest, postal code 011017

Phone/fax number:

Tel.: + 40 21 200 9600 Fax: + 40 21 200 9631

Sole Registration Code with the Trade Register Office: 18253260

Order number in the Trade Register: J40/21901/2005

Subscribed share capital:

RON 8,562,968,634.10

Paid-up share capital: RON 8,253,728,136.60

Number of shares in issue: 10,074,080,746

Number of paid shares: 9,710,268,396

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

GDRs on London Stock Exchange

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