Fondul Proprietatea

Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 20, 2017

To: Bucharest Stock Exchange Financial Supervisory Authority London Stock Exchange

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

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, RELEASE OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH IT WOULD BE UNLAWFUL TO DO SO.

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS DEEMED TO CONSTITUTE INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) NO. 596/2014. UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Events to be reported:

Sale of 1.454 billion existing shares in OMV Petrom S.A. through an accelerated bookbuild offering

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch, in its capacity as Investment Manager of Fondul Proprietatea S.A. (the "Fund"), further to the launch announcement on 19 September 2017, hereby announces the agreement to sell 1.454 billion existing shares in OMV Petrom S.A. ("Petrom") to qualified investors and/or certain other investors not exceeding 150 natural or legal persons per Member State other than qualified investors (all within the meaning of paragraphs (2)(a) and (2)(b) of Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive) (the "Transaction").

With the shares' selling price agreed at RON 0.2750/share, the gross proceeds of the Transaction amount to RON 399,850,000. Petrom will not receive any proceeds from the Transaction.

Subject to successful settlement completion, the Fund's remaining participation in Petrom is of 9.9985% of its share capital.

Goldman Sachs International, WOOD & Company Financial Services, A.S. and Banca Comercială Romana acted as Joint Bookrunners for the Transaction.

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

Adrian Cighi Legal Representative Report date: 20 September 2017

Name of the issuing entity:

Fondul Proprietatea S.A.

Registered office:

78-80 Buzesti St., 7 th 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 5,238,521,987.92

Paid-up share capital: RON 5,049,339,565.92

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

FONDUL PROPRIETATEA S.A., an alternative investment fund • Headquarters at: 78-80 Buzesti Street, 7th floor, Bucharest 1st district, postal code 011017, Romania. • Fiscal Identification Code (CIF): 18253260, registered with the Trade Registry under no: J40/21901/2005 • Register on Data Protection Notification Register under number 18668 • Subscribed share capital RON 5,238,521,987.92, Paid-up Share Capital: RON 5,049,339,565.92 • Tel.: + 40 21 200 9600; Fax: +40 21 200 9631; Email: office@fondulproprietatea.ro; Internet: www.fondulproprietatea.ro

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