Current report No. 12/2019
Ratings and outlooks affirmed and rating assigned to the hybrid bonds
TAURON Polska Energia S.A. ("Company") announces that on April 17, 2019Fitch Ratings rating agency("Fitch") affirmed Company's Long-TermForeign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at "BBB" withStable Outlooks and assigned a local-currency rating of "BB+" and anational rating of "BBB+(pol)" to PLN 400 million hybrid bonds issued onMarch 29, 2019, under the hybrid bonds program with Bank GospodarstwaKrajowego ("BGK") from 2017.
Full list of rating actions includes:
- Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency IDRs affirmed at "BBB"; StableOutlook,
- Short-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency IDRs affirmed at "F3",
- National Long-Term Rating affirmed at "A+(pol)"; Stable Outlook,
- Foreign-currency senior unsecured rating of EUR 500 million Eurobondsaffirmed at "BBB",
- National senior unsecured rating affirmed at "A+(pol)",
- EUR 190 million hybrid bonds (European Investment Bank - "EIB")affirmed at "BB+",
- PLN 750 million hybrid bonds (EIB) affirmed at "BB+",
- PLN 400 million hybrid bond program (BGK) affirmed at "BB+",
- PLN 400 million hybrid bond program (BGK) national rating affirmed at"BBB+(pol)",
- PLN 400 million hybrid bonds (BGK), assigned a rating of "BB+",
- PLN 400 million hybrid bonds (BGK) assigned a national rating of"BBB+(pol)".
Fitch report is available on the website: www.fitchratings.com.
Legal basis:
Art. 17 sec. 1 of MAR - inside information.