Appeal in the file with Competition Council

To:                              Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)

                                    Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)

                                    London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Current report in compliance with the Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, the Romanian Capital Market Law no. 297/2004, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018, and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 5 September 2019

Company name: Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. (Electrica)

Headquarters: 9 Grigore Alexandrescu Street, 1^st District, Bucharest, Romania

Phone/fax no.: 004-021-2085999/004-021-2085998

Fiscal Code: RO 13267221

Trade Register registration number: J40/7425/2000

Subscribed and paid in share capital: RON 3,459,399,290

Regulated market where the issued securities are traded: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Significant events to be reported:

Appeal in the file no. 3889/2/2018 with Competition Council

Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. filed an appeal against the Decision no. 707/2019, by which the Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected the action requesting, mainly, the annulment of the Competition Council Decision no. 77/20.12.2018 by which the company was fined 10,800,984.04 lei (representing 2.98% of the total turnover realized in the financial year 2016) and, alternatively, the reduction of the fine amount (file no. 3889/2/2018).

Chief Executive Officer                                                                     

Georgeta Corina POPESCU