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Decisions by the Annual Cooperative Meeting

OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative                                            
COMPANY RELEASE, Decisions by the Annual Cooperative Meeting                    
26 March 2010, 2.30 pm                                                          

Decisions by the Annual Cooperative Meeting                                     

The Annual Cooperative Meeting of OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative, held in 
Helsinki on 26 March 2010, adopted the financial statements for 2009, discharged
those accountable from liability and elected the following persons:             

Supervisory Board                                                               

The Meeting re-elected the following Supervisory Boar members, who were due to  
resign, for the term ending in 2013: Pekka Ahvenjärvi, Attorney; Ola Eklund,    
Product Director; Paavo Haapakoski, liikuntaneuvos (Finnish honorary title); and
Bo Storsjö, farmer. The new members elected to the Supervisory Board were as    
follows: Hannu Simi, planner; and Mervi Väisänen, Senior Lecturer, Marketing. In
addition, the Meeting elected Matti Pulkkinen, Director of the Northern Savo    
Hospital District, for the term ending in 2012. The Supervisory Board comprises 
33 members.                                                                     

At its first meeting after the Annual Cooperative Meeting, the Supervisory Board
re-elected Paavo Haapakoski, liikuntaneuvos (Finnish honorary title), to act as 
Chairman and Jaakko Pehkonen, Professor, and Jukka Hulkkonen, Managing Director,
to act as Vice Chairmen.                                                        

Auditor                                                                         

The Annual Cooperative Meeting elected KPMG Oy Ab, a firm of authorised public  
accountants, the auditor of OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative and OP-Pohjola 
Group for the financial year 2010.                                              

OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative                                            

Carina Geber-Teir                                                               
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications                                 

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