Ad-hoc | 28 July 2006 10:31
E.ON receives notification of the CNE’s decision for Endesa bid
Ad hoc announcement transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Yesterday Spain’s Comisión Nacional de Energía (CNE) made a decision
relating to E.ON’s offer for Endesa. E.ON received oral notification of the
key aspects of the CNE’s decision late yesterday evening. E.ON has not yet
received the decision in writing.
The CNE has approved E.ON’s bid subject to a number of conditions. These
include the requirement that E.ON divest about 7,600 megawatts of Endesa’s
generating capacity in Spain. When it receives the decision, E.ON will
review the conditions in detail. However, E.ON sees no justification for
the conditions it is already aware of and reserves all legal options.
E.ON is strongly committed to the acquisition and believes that it will
benefit all stakeholders: customers, employees and shareholders as well as
the wider Spanish economy. Following its detailed review of the CNE
decision, E.ON will inform the market of any further action it may take.
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Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News:
Disclaimer ad-hoc release July 28, 2006 – CNE’s decision for Endesa bid –
This press release does not constitute an invitation to sell or an offer to
buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval. Endesa
investors and security holders are urged to read the prospectus and U.S.
tender offer statement from E.ON regarding the proposed tender offer for
Endesa when they become available, because they will contain important
information. The prospectus and certain complementary documentation will be
filed in Spain with the Spanish Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores
(the “CNMV”). Likewise, a U.S. tender offer statement will be filed in the
United States with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the prospectus
(when it is available) and its complementary documentation from E.ON,
Endesa, the four Spanish Stock Exchanges, and Santander Investment Bolsa SV
SA or Santander Investment SA, Corredores de Bolsa. The prospectus will
also be available on the websites of the CNMV (www.cnmv.es) and E.ON
(www.eon.com). Likewise, investors and security holders may obtain a free
copy of the U.S. tender offer statement (when it is available) and other
documents filed by E.ON with the SEC on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov.
The U.S. tender offer statement and these other documents may also be
obtained for free from E.ON, when they become available, by directing a
request to E.ON AG, External Communications, Tel.: 0211- 45 79 – 4 53.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Various known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material
differences between the actual future results, financial situation,
development or performance of E.ON and Endesa and the estimates given here.
These factors include the inability to obtain necessary regulatory
approvals or to obtain them on acceptable terms; the inability to integrate
successfully Endesa within the E.ON Group or to realize synergies from such
integration; costs related to the acquisition of Endesa; the economic
environment of the industries in which E.ON and Endesa operate; and other
risk factors discussed in E.ON’s public reports filed with the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange and with the SEC (including E.ON’s Annual Report on Form
20-F) and in Endesa’s public reports filed with the CNMV and with the SEC
(including Endesa’s Annual Report on Form 20-F). E.ON assumes no liability
whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to
future events or developments.
Media Contact
E.ON AG, Corporate Communications
Dr. Peter Blau, +49 (0)211 45 79 627
Josef Nelles, +49 (0)211 45 79 544
(c)DGAP 28.07.2006
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Language: English
Issuer: E.ON AG
E.ON-Platz 1
40479 Düsseldorf Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)211 4579-0
Fax: +49 (0)211 45 79-5 01
E-mail: investorrelations@eon.com
WWW: www.eon.com
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