Response of the Supervisory Board of Petrol d.d., Ljubljana

Response of the Supervisory Board of Petrol d.d., Ljubljana to the news reported in the media, relating to the early termination of office of the Management Board members and appointment of the new Management Board of Petrol d.d., Ljubljana, and to providing uniform information to all shareholders of the company

On the basis of the provisions of Rules of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange and applicable legislation, Petrol d.d., Ljubljana, Dunajska cesta 50, Ljubljana publishes the following notification:

Recently, some media have reported a suspicion of providing non-uniform information to the shareholders of Petrol, relating to the procedures for early termination of terms of office of the former three members of the Management Board: Tomaž Berločnik, Igor Stebernak and Rok Vodnik, as one of the shareholders, the Slovenian State Holding Company, was allegedly informed of this procedures in advance.

The Supervisory Board of Petrol d.d., Ljubljana hereby notifies the public that Slovenian State Holding, d.d. did not possess any additional information about the operations and activities of the Supervisory Board of the company relating to the early termination of office of the former Management Board of the company.  Slovenian State Holding, d.d. did not receive any additional information from any member of the Supervisory Board other than the information that had already been made public, and could not have been informed in advance of any procedures for the early termination of office of the former Management Board of Petrol d.d., Ljubljana.

The Supervisory Board of Petrol is a body which acts independently in accordance with the applicable legislation. Likewise, all members of this body act completely independently and to the benefit of the company they supervise.  The members of the Supervisory Board unanimously adopted their decision relating to the early termination of office of the Management Board Petrol d.d., Ljubljana, taking into account the information available at the time of this decision.