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Current report:

Choice of a Chartered Accountant

Report number: 13/2005 day: 2005-08-03

The management of Barlinek S.A. hereby announces that on August 3rd this year, in accordance with the applicable legislation and professional norms, the Company’s Supervisory board made a choice of the Doradca Financial and Accountancy Advisory Team ltd, based at Al. J. Piłsudskiego 1a in Lublin, as the body entitled to inspect its financial reports, with which it has signed a contract in the field of inspection and assessment of the unitary financial report of Barlinek S.A. for the first half of 2005 and inspection and assessment of the consolidated financial report of Barlinek Capital Group for the first half of 2005.

Doradca ltd is entered on the list kept by the National Chamber of Chartered Accountants of bodies entitled to inspect financial reports, as number 232. Barlinek S.A. has used the services of Doradca ltd in the past, details as follows:

• on November 11th 2004 a contract was signed between Doradca ltd and the Company, the subject of which was inspection of the Company’s unitary financial report for 2004,
• on May 9th 2005 a contract was signed between Doradca ltd and the Company, the subject of which was fulfilment of the role of body entitled to inspect its financial reports for the requirements of the Company’s share issue prospectus,