Following today's press reports - according to which the inclusion of the Greek football teams in the "STIHIMA" game is postponed until September 2006 - the management of OPAP S.A announces the following:

a.- The resignation of the Chairman and Members of the Professional Sports Committee and thereafter its necessary reassigning was unexpected event, making it impossible to estimate the time required for the conclusion of the procedures to include the Greek football teams in the "STIHIMA" game.

b.- The qualified Deputy Minister has already approved the appointment of the new Members of the above Committee, to be shortly announced in the Government Gazette.

c.- As a result the possibility of including certain Greek football matches of the current football season in the "STIHIMA" game cannot be excluded, that is before September 2006, i.e. the expected start of every new football season.

d.- In any case OPAP S.A. wishes to ensure that at least some matches even towards the end of the current football period may be included, and that the management of the Company is acting with every possible and necessary means, towards this direction.