Announcement on a crossing of the 5% threshold in the total number of votes

Report number
29/2016

The Management Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. ("Company") announces that the Company received information from Nationale – Nederlanden Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A. dated 18 August 2016, sent in compliance with  art. 69 together with art. 87 sec. 1 point 3 letter b of the Act dated 29 July 2005 on public offerings and conditions governing the introduction of financial instruments to organised trading, and on public companies.                                        

According to the information received, as a result of the purchase of the Company’s shares in transactions on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, which were settled on 11 August 2016, the fund Nationale – Nederlanden Otwarty Fundusz Emerytalny (hereafter “OFE”), which is managed by Nationale – Nederlanden Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A., became the holder of shares of the Company in an amount ensuring more than 5% of the votes at the Company’s General Meeting.

Prior to the settlement of these transactions, i.e. on 10 August 2016, OFE held 9 854 188 of the Company’s shares, representing 4.93 % of the Company’s share capital and granting the right to 9 854 188 of the votes at the Company’s General Meeting, amounting to 4.93% of the total number of votes.

Following the settlement of these transactions, on 11 August 2016, 10 104 354 of the Company’s shares were registered on the brokerage account of OFE, representing 5.05% of the Company’s share capital. These shares grant the right to 10 104 354 of the votes at the Company’s General Meeting, amounting to 5.05% of the total number of votes.

Legal basis: art. 70 point 1 of the Act dated 29 July 2005 on public offerings and conditions governing the introduction of financial instruments to organised trading, and on public companies (unified text: Journal of Laws 2013.1382)