Announcement of replacement of BoD member.

“HELLENIC PETROLEUM S.A.” announces to the investors that, at the meeting of the Board of Directors no. 1144 dated 2.12.2009, the appointment by the shareholder Hellenic State of Mr. Anastasios Giannitsis as BoD member, in replacement of the resigned BoD Chairman, Mr. Efthimios Christodoulou, was communicated.

Moreover, the BoD confirmed the resignation, dated 2.12.2009, of the non-executive BoD member – minority shareholders’ representative, Mr. Dimitrios Miliakos, which was accepted on the same day. 

 

Following the above, at the same meeting above, the BoD constituted into a body for its remaining term, namely until 14.5.2013, and according to the wish of the shareholder Hellenic State elected Mr. Anastasios Giannitsis as Chairman thereof, re-elected Mr. Ioannis Costopoulos as Chief Executive Officer, and it decided upon the appointment of its executive and non-executive members, pursuant to the provisions of the Company’s Articles of Association and Law no. 3016/2002 on Corporate Governance, as follows:

Anastasios Giannitsis: BoD Chairman, Executive Member
Ioannis Costopoulos Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member
Alexios Athanasopoulos:Counselor, Employees’ Representative, Non-Executive Member
Ioulia Armagou: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Theodoros-Achilleas Vardas: Counselor, Executive Member
Georgios Kallimopoulos: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Elisavet Loverdou: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Vassilios Bayiokos: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Panagiotis Ofthalmidis: Counselor, Employees’ Representative, Non-Executive Member
Panagiotis Pavlopoulos: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Nikolaos Pefkianakis: Counselor, Non-Executive Member
Iason Stratos: Counselor, Minority Shareholders’ Representative, Non-Executive Member

 

At its aforementioned meeting, the BoD also decided upon the convocation of a Company’s Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, to be held at the Company’s main premises, at Aspropyrgos, Attica (17th km Athens – Corinth National Road), on Monday, December 28th, 2009, at 12:00, in order to discuss and decide on the following agenda items:

 

1. Announcement of BoD recomposition.
2. Preliminary approval of compensation and fees of BoD members– Approval of contracts between the company and BoD members.
3. Setting up of Audit Committee under Law 3693/2008.

 

In addition, at the same meeting above, the BoD decided upon the convocation of a Special Meeting of the Company’s Minority Shareholders to be held at the Company’s main premises, at Aspropyrgos, Attica (17th km Athens – Corinth National Road), on Monday, December 28th, 2009, at 10:00, in order to discuss and decide on the following sole agenda item:

 

• Election of two (2) minority shareholders’ representatives in the Company’s Board of Directors, pursuant to articles 20, par. 2(d) and 21 of the Articles of Association, in replacement of equivalent number of members.