The Annual General Meeting of MVV Energie AG held on 13 March 2009 followed the proposal made by the Executive and Supervisory Boards and approved an increase in the dividend for the 2007/08 financial year from Euro 0.80 to Euro 0.90. Due to the higher dividend, the distribution sum based on a total of 65.9 million shares rose year-on-year by Euro 6.6 million to Euro 59.3 million. We intend to pay our shareholders an appropriate dividend consistent with our earnings performance in future as well. As in the previous year, the Executive and Supervisory Boards plan to propose a dividend of Euro 0.90 per share for the 2008/09 financial year for approval by the Annual General Meeting on 12 March 2010. This is equivalent to a dividend yield of 2.9 % in terms of the closing price in XETRA trading on the reporting date on 30 September 2009