LITGRID - Notification on material event

Procedure for the Payment of Litgrid Dividend for 2015

Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016-05-09 10:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The general
meeting of AB Litgrid shareholders (business ID 302564383, registered office
address A. Juozapavičiaus g. 13, Vilnius) held on 26 April 2016 adopted a
decision on the distribution of the company‘s profit for 2015 and the payment
of an EUR 0.0091 dividend per share. 

The dividend will be paid to persons that will be AB Litgrid shareholders as of
the end of the tenth working day after the general meeting of shareholders that
has adopted the decision, i. e. 10 May 2016. The dividends will be paid
according to Article 60(5) of the Republic of Lithuania Law on Companies, i. e.
within 1 (one) month from the date when the decision to pay the dividend was
adopted, through the managers of securities accounts of Litgrid’s shareholders
and through AB Swedbank – the manager of securities accounts of the issuer, i.
e.  AB Litgrid. 

Starting from 25 May 2016, the dividend payment procedure will be as follows:

- To shareholders whose shares in AB Litgrid are managed by securities brokers
or divisions of credit institutions providing the securities‘ accounting
services, the dividend will be transferred, upon deduction of the natural
person‘s income tax or the profit tax according to the Lithuanian law, to the
shareholder’s account with the relevant securities brokers or credit
institution; 

- To shareholders whose shares in AB Litgrid are managed by AB Swedbank 
authorised by AB Litgrid (the issuer), the dividend will be transferred, upon
deduction of the natural person‘s income tax or the profit tax according to the
Lithuanian law, to the shareholder‘s account with AB Swedbank or to the account
with another bank or financial institution specified by the shareholder (IBAN)
(applications for the transfer of the dividend to the account specified by the
shareholder may be submitted to any branch of AB Swedbank). 

Dividend taxation procedure:

- A 15% natural person‘s income tax: residents of the Republic of Lithuania –
natural persons and foreign residents - natural persons; 

- A 15% profit tax: residents of the Republic of Lithuania – legal persons and
foreign residents - legal persons, unless the law states otherwise. 

Residents of foreign countries that have concluded agreements on avoidance of
double taxation with the Republic of Lithuania may make use of tax concessions
under such agreements by filing a completed Foreign Resident‘s Application for
a Tax Reduction, Form FR0021 (DAS-1). The form completed according to statutory
requirements must be submitted to AB Swedbank by 20 May 2016 through a
securities broker managing securities accounting for the foreign resident or
through a division of a credit institution providing securities accounting
services. 

For more information please call Swedbank at 1633.


         Vilija Railaitė
         Head of Communications
         Phone +370 5278 2361
         Mobile +370 613 19977
         E-mail vilija.railaite@litgrid.eu