EANS-Adhoc: Kommunalkredit Austria AG /Invitation by FIMBAG to parties interested in partial sale

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Kommunalkredit Austria AG (the Company) has been informed today by Finanzmarktbeteiligung Aktiengesellschaft des Bundes (FIMBAG), which holds 99.78% of the shares of the Company in trust for the Republic of Austria, that FIMBAG intends to partially sell the Company in accordance with the amending decision taken by the European Commission on 19 July 2013 and will, to this end, in the next days by way of a public call for tenders invite potentially interested parties to submit expressions of interest by 10 September 2014 for the shares in the Company held by FIMBAG.

In the case of a partial sale, the requirements of the amending decision by the European Commission of 19 July 2013 have to be taken into account, according to which FIMBAG is authorised under EU state aid rules to sell the shares held by it to an extent of up to 50% of the assets as at 19 July 2013, i.e. up to a maximum of EUR 5.8 billion.

ISIN: AT0000329859;CH0020669583;CH0022280058;CH0024015452;CH0025662831; XS0104786263;XS0163624504;XS0180539420;XS0186736228;XS0187975262; XS0197387953;XS0205974701;XS0210167218;XS0211496590;XS0212122534; XS0213230047;XS0214564972;XS0214981812;XS0215839019;XS0215865287; XS0218474533;XS0218834843;XS0219327524;XS0235597068;XS0236776877; XS0241451581;XS0252593198;XS0252707624;XS0252786669;XS0253410236; XS0255439803;XS0261832942;XS0267998481;XS0270872640;XS0271821513; XS0285503248;XS0299062389;XS0302365134;XS0340901908;XS0373257590; XS0592235187;XS0687890441;XS0973424152;XS1003074306;XS1003354252; XS1008699933;XS1015492595;XS1016032457;XS1017111029;XS1018909454; XS1020014608;XS1033673440;XS1040273267;XS1045121784;XS1045221063; XS1046170699;XS1072804484

Stock exchanges: Vienna, Luxembourg, Zurich

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