The Management Board of Globe Trade Centre S.A. (the “Company”) hereby announces that pursuant to Articles 7.1.1, 7.1.2 and 7.1.3 of the Company’s Articles of Association, Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne PZU SA, with its registered seat in Warsaw, acting on behalf of Otwarty Fundusz Emerytalny PZU “Złota Jesień” (the “Shareholder”), has appointed Ryszard Koper to the Company’s Supervisory Board for a three-year term of office commencing on 27 May 2016.

Pursuant to the attached deposit certificate, the Entitled Shareholder holds 47,847,000 shares in the Company, which constitute 10.40% of the Company’s share capital and entitle the holder thereof to 10.40% of the votes at the general meeting of the Company.

Ryszard Koper graduated from Łódź University’s Faculty of Law and Administration in 1996. He also completed postgraduate studies in tax law at the Faculty of Law, University of Osnabrück in Germany in 1997. He has the certificate of tax advisor. Since 2004 he works at the law firm of KMR KOPER in Warsaw. Between 2001 and 2004 he worked at KPMG POLAND and KPMG POLAND AUDIT. Earlier in 2001-1999 he worked in a law firm of Beiten Burkhardt BBLP Mittl & Wegener (an office in Warsaw). In 1999-1997 Mr Koper worked in a law firm of Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner (an office in Warsaw).

 According to his statement, Mr Koper is not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained in compliance with the Act on the National Court Register dated 20 August 1997, does not perform any activities outside of the Company’s business which could be considered competitive with respect thereto, does not participate in any competitive business either as a partner in a civil partnership or any other type of partnership, and is not a member of the authorities of any competitive company or any other competitive entity.

According to his statement, Ryszard Koper fulfils the independence criteria as specified in Annex No. II to Commission Recommendation 2005/162/EC of 15 February 2005 on the role of non-executive or supervisory directors of listed companies and on the committees of the (supervisory) board and certain additional requirements set forth in the Best Practice of GPW Listed Companies attached to Resolution No. 27/1414/2015 adopted by the Warsaw Stock Exchange Management Board on 13 October 2015.

Legal grounds: Paragraph 5 sec. 1 point 22 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance dated 19 February 2009 on the submission of current and periodical information by issuers of securities and on the conditions for treating as equivalent information required by the laws of a country which is not a member of the European Union.

28.05.2016  13:23