According to the Presidential Decree 82/96 the company METKA S.A. announces that it intends to participate, either on its own, or as a member of a joint venture, in the bid of the PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION S.A. (PPC) (Prot. No (0610194) for the project "Maintenance of one wind turbine (General Electric type LM 6000PC of the Aeolian Electric Station Linoperamaton for 12,500 working hours". The said bid will be carried out on 28/02/2006 and is budgeted at euro 2,900,000.00 (V.A.T. excluded).

As defined in article 1 of P.D. 82/96, it is announced that PPC's S.A. shares are nominal and the potential Societe Anonyme shareholders of our company, according to paragraph 3 of article 1 of the above P.D. 82/96, must hold based on their charter, nominal shares and are obliged to submit to our company a certification for the definition of their shareholders, or according to paragraph 2 of article 1 of the above Presidential Decree their lawful release so that our company can work out the respective special shareholders Registry.

Finally, it is noted that non compliance of S.A. shareholders of our company to the above, bears consequences provided by article 2, paragraph 2 of the above P.D. 82/96 (Deprivation of representation and voting rights in the Company?s General Meeting and of any kind of property rights derived by their shareholding).