Directorate Change

Amsterdam, 17 March 2015

Zdeněk Bakala to stand down from NWR's board

Charles Harman nominated as a new non-executive director

New World Resources Plc ('NWR' or the 'Company') announces today that Zdeněk Bakala will resign from its board of directors (the 'Board') at the coming Annual General Meeting on 23 April 2015 (the 'AGM').

Charles Harman has been nominated to join the Board as a non-executive director and he will be proposed by the Board for appointment by NWR's shareholders at the AGM.

Zdeněk Bakala was first appointed as a non-executive director of NWR in April 2011. He was a non-executive director of New World Resources N.V. from 2006 until 2011, when he resigned following the Company's reincorporation in the UK.

In 2014, Zdeněk Bakala and the BXR Group supported the restructuring of NWR's balance sheet with EUR 75 million of equity capital. Mr. Bakala and the BXR Group currently hold (through their 50/50 joint venture CERCL Holdings Limited a 100 percent owner of CERCL Mining B.V.) 50.54 percent of the Company's A shares.

Charles Harman was the Chief Executive of BXR Partners LLP from 2011 until 31 October 2014. Prior to joining BXR, Mr. Harman had a successful 26-year career in investment banking, initially at Credit Suisse First Boston, MC Securities and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. He joined Cazenove & Co. Ltd. as a Managing Director in its corporate finance team in 2001 and subsequently served as Head of Corporate Finance for J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Head of UK Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan.  He is currently a director of Sanditon Investment Trust PLC, Klein Constantia Winery and Philglas & Swiggot, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the BXR Group.

Gareth Penny, NWR's Executive Chairman, said:

"Zdeněk's enduring commitment to NWR has been truly instrumental to the life of the Company, through good and bad times. On behalf of the Board, I thank him for this. We are sad to see him go; he will be missed. Although Zdeněk's decision to stand down marks the end of his direct involvement in the Board, I have little doubt that his commitment to NWR will continue.

I am delighted to welcome Charles to the Board of NWR. Charles' strong financial background, coupled with his knowledge of the Company as BXR Partners' former Chief Executive, will prove invaluable to NWR in weathering the continued depressed coal market environment."

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Website: www.newworldresources.eu

About NWR:

New World Resources Plc is a Central European hard coal producer. NWR produces quality coking and thermal coal for the steel and energy sectors in Central Europe through its subsidiary OKD, the largest hard coal mining company in the Czech Republic.

Disclaimer and cautionary note on forward looking statements and notes on certain other matters

Certain statements in this announcement are not historical facts and are or are deemed to be "forward-looking". The Company's prospects, plans, financial position and business strategy, and statements pertaining to the capital resources, future expenditure for development projects and results of operations, may constitute forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology including, but not limited to; "may", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "plan", "foresee", "will", "could", "may", "might", "believe" or "continue" or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other facts that may cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and may be beyond NWR's ability to control or predict. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performances.

Factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected include, but are not limited to, the following: risks relating to changes in political, economic and social conditions in the Czech Republic, Poland and the CEE region; future prices and demand for the Company's products, and demand for the Company's customers' products; coal mine reserves; remaining life of the Company's mines; coal production; trends in the coal industry and domestic and international coal market conditions; risks in coal mining operations; future expansion plans and capital expenditures; the Company's relationship with, and conditions affecting, the Company's customers; competition; railroad and other transportation performance and costs; availability of specialist and qualified workers; and weather conditions or catastrophic damage; risks relating to Czech or Polish law, regulations and taxation, including laws, regulations, decrees and decisions governing the coal mining industry, the environment and currency and exchange controls relating to Czech and Polish entities and their official interpretation by governmental and other regulatory bodies and by the courts; and risks relating to global economic conditions and the global economic environment. Additional risk factors are as described in the Company's annual report

Forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this announcement. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release, publicly or otherwise, any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained in this announcement to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions, assumptions or circumstances on which any such statement is based unless so required by applicable law