Lietuvos energija, AB - Notification on material event

PROCEDURE FOR THE PAYOUT OF DIVIDENDS FOR THE YEAR 2012

Elektrėnai, Lithuania, 2013-05-08 09:13 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On 30 April
2013, the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Lietuvos energija, AB
(company code 302648707, registered office at Elektrinės str. 21, Elektrėnai)
approved the allocation of profit of Lietuvos energija, AB for 2012 and payout
of 0.04 litas dividend per share. 

Dividends will be paid to the shareholders who at the end of the tenth business
day following the day of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders that
adopted a decision on dividend payment, i.e. on 15 May 2013, will be
shareholders of Lietuvos energija, AB. 

The dividends will be paid out in the following order from 29 May 2013:

- to the shareholders, whose Lietuvos energija, AB shares are accounted by a
financial brokerage company or credit institutions, which provide securities
accounting services, the dividend amount, after deduction of Personal or
Corporate withholding income tax applicable by the laws of Lithuania, will be
transferred to the shareholders' accounts held with a respective financial
brokerage company or credit institution; 

- to the shareholders, whose Lietuvos energija, AB shares are accounted by the
„Swedbank“, AB bank, the dividend amount, after deduction of Personal or
Corporate withholding income tax applicable by the laws of Lithuania, will be
transferred to the shareholders' accounts with „Swedbank“, AB bank or the
accounts with any other Lithuanian commercial bank as indicated by the
shareholders. 

Please take a notice that dividends for the year 2012 will be taxed as follows:

- dividends paid to natural persons-residents of the Republic of Lithuania and
natural persons-residents of foreign countries are subject to withholding
Personal income tax of 20 per cent; 

- dividends paid to legal entities of the Republic of Lithuania and legal
entities-residents of foreign countries are subject to withholding Corporate
income tax of 15 per cent, unless the laws provide otherwise. 

Residents of the foreign countries, which have concluded agreements on
Avoidance of Double Taxation with the Republic of Lithuania, could take
advantage of reduced tariffs provided by such agreements by submitting Claim
for Reduction or Exemption from the Anticipatory Tax Withheld at Source, form
FR0021 (DAS-1). The form should be completed following the law requirements and
presented to „Swedbank“, AB bank through the medium of financial brokerage
company or credit institutions, which provide securities accounting services,
by 23 May 2013. 

Contacts for additional information on payout of the dividends:

Neringa Bytautaitė

Account Manager

Division of Securities Transactions in Lithuania

„Swedbank“, AB

Konstitucijos pr. 20A, 03502 Vilnius, Lietuva

Phone (8 5) 258 2240 Faks. (8 5) 258 2170

E-mail: neringa.bytautaite@swedbank.lt

www.swedbank.lt


         Ernesta Dapkienė
         Head of Corporate Communications
         Tel. +370 528 33696
         ernesta.dapkiene@le.lt