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Current report:

Registration of pre-emptive rights to L-series shares by the National Depository for Securities (KDPW)

Report number: 36/2008 day: 2008-09-24

Legal basis

Art. 56 paragraph 1 pt 2 of the Bidding (current and periodic information)

Act Contents of the report:

The management board of Barlinek S.A. hereby informs that on 23 September of 2008 it received a resolution number 532/08 from the National Depository for Securities (Zarząd Krajowy Depozytu Papierów Wartościowych S.A - hereinafter referred to as KDPW) dated 17 September 2008, pursuant to which it was decided to register at the National Depository For Securities 96,780,000 (ninety-six million seven hundred and eighty thousand) individual pre-emptive rights to purchase L series ordinary bearer shares of Barlinek S.A. with a nominal value of 1.00 PLN each, issued pursuant to resolution number 17 of the Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting of Barlinek S.A. dated of 27th of June 2008 to increase the company's share capital by public insurance of L-series shares with pre-emptive rights to purchase by the existing shareholders. The pre-emptive rights to purchase has been assigned a code PLBRLNK00066.

Registration of pre-emptive rights to purchase will take effect on 27th of September, 2008. The above resolution was adopted with the reservation that in the event not all circumstances of a dematerialisation of individual pre-emptive rights referred to above are met, The National Depository for Securities will carry out the registration procedures aimed only at guaranteeing that the pre-emptive right to purchase L-series ordinary bearer shares of Barlinek S.A., to which the company's shareholders are entitled, are exercised.

Legal basis: Paragraph 34 section 1 item 1 of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Finance of October 19th 2005 concerning current and periodic information released by issuers of securities [Journal of Laws No 209 of 2005, item 1744]