Publication of Information Concerning a Commercial Paper Issue

In compliance with the obligation laid down in the Financial Instruments Market Act (hereinafter referred to as FIMA) to disclose regulated information, Petrol d.d., Ljubljana hereby announces that, despite the challenging financial situation on the Slovene and world capital markets, it has successfully completed the sale of 6-month commercial papers (identification code: PEK03), with total nominal value of EUR 60,000,000.00. This is the third consecutive issue of commercial papers by Petrol d.d., Ljubljana. The issue was exceptionally well received by investors, who expressed interest to purchase commercial papers in excess of EUR 60 million in nominal value, so that company Petrol d.d., Ljubljana decided to increase the total nominal value of the issue from the initially planned EUR 50 million to the final EUR 60 million. This is the largest issue of corporate debt securities in Slovenia to date.

Commercial papers have been issued for the purpose of refinancing of short-term financial liabilities of the company Petrol d.d., Ljubljana due in the current year and diversifying the base of short-term debt investors to institutional investors.

Despite uncertain conditions in financial markets and rising interest rates on Slovenian debt securities the company Petrol d.d., Ljubljana has managed to keep the offered interest rate for 6-month commercial papers at 3.8% per year, equal to the interest rate of the previous commercial papers issue six months ago.

On 27 March 2013, the entire issue of the commercial papers PEK03, with the total nominal value of EUR 60,000,000.00, was paid in by 46 investors.

The commercial papers are issued in book-entry form and entered into the central registry of dematerialised securities operated by KDD the Central Securities Clearing Corporation under the code PEK03 and ISIN SI0032500546.

The commercial papers will be traded on the regulated market at the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, d.d., Ljubljana, on the segment of the Bond Market - Money Market Instruments - Commercial papers. Before the start of trading, the company Petrol d.d., Ljubljana will publish the Presentation document on the classification of commercial papers PEK03 to trading on a regulated market.

As defined by FIMA the commercial papers are classified as money market instruments and shall therefore be issued as part of the public offering procedure, which does not require compliance with the rules regarding the publication of a prospectus and other rules relating to the public offering of securities as laid down in Chapter 2 of the FIMA.

All services and activities regarding the organisation and execution of the initial offering of the commercial papers, the issuing of the commercial papers in book-entry form together with their entry into the Central Securities Clearing Corporation's central registry, and the admission of the commercial papers to the regulated market are performed by NLB d.d. on behalf of the issuer.