Fondul Proprietatea

Major Shareholding Notification • Jan 8, 2019

To: Bucharest Stock Exchange Financial Supervisory Authority London Stock Exchange

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

Important events to be reported:

Shareholding structure and total number of voting rights as at 31 December 2018

The shareholding structure at the level of Fondul Proprietatea S.A. as at 31 December 2018, as received from Depozitarul Central S.A., was as follows:

Shareholder Type	% of subscribed share capital	% of paid– up share capital	% of total voting rights
The Bank of New York Mellon (depository bank for Global Depository Receipts) – out of which Fondul Proprietatea held 15,000 Global Depository Receipts (750,000 shares equivalent)	28.82	30.01	36.46
Romanian institutional shareholders	16.77	17.47	21.23
Romanian private individuals	15.60	16.24	19.74
Foreign institutional shareholders	15.35	15.98	19.42
Foreign private individuals	2.42	2.52	3.06
Ministry of Public Finance	4.04	0.08	0.09
Treasury Shares1	17.00	17.70	0.00
Total	100	100	100

Also, please note that the total number of shareholders was 6,203 and the total number of voting rights was 7,251,822,439.

The said structure does not reflect yet the share capital decrease which was effective starting with 28 December 2018, as its implementation with Depozitarul Central S.A. is ongoing and it is expected to be implemented before end of January 2019.

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

Johan MEYER Legal Representative

Report date:

8 January 2019

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

Registered office: 78-80 Buzesti Street 7th 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 4,733,020,898.32 Paid-up share capital: RON 4,543,838,476.32 Number of shares in issue: 9,101,963,266 Number of paid shares: 8,738,150,916 Regulated market on which the issued securities are traded: Shares on Bucharest Stock Exchange GDRs on London Stock

Exchange

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 1,559,788,665 treasury shares out of which 74,210,188 treasury shares acquired by the Fund within the eighth buyback program and 1,485,578,477 treasury shares acquired by the Fund within the ninth buyback program

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 • Subscribed share capital RON 4,733,020,898.32, Paid-up Share Capital: RON 4,543,838,476.32 • Tel.: + 40 21 200 9600; Fax: +40 21 200 9631; Email: office@fondulproprietatea.ro; Internet: www.fondulproprietatea.ro