The Company announces that the Ordinary General Assembly of the Shareholders dated 04.05.2006, approved the buy back of own shares by the Company via the Athens Stock Exchange in order to support its stock price, as follows: The maximum number of shares that can be bought back is 10% of the total existing shares. The maximum price that the shares will be bought is Euro 35 per share and the minimum price is Euro 10 per share. The aforementioned decision is valid ten days after the latest release of the present announcement, according to the law, and up to 04.05.2007.