Holding(s) in Company

To: Bucharest Stock Exchange

Financial Supervisory Authority

London Stock Exchange

The current report according to Art. 228 paragraph (3) of Law no. 297/2004 - Capital Market Law as subsequently amended and supplemented, as well as the provisions of Art. 105 of the Rulebook of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Title II - Issuers and Financial Instruments

Important events to be reported:

Information regarding the disclosure of holdings of over 5% of the total voting rights held by NN Group N.V. in Fondul Proprietatea S.A.

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited United Kingdom Bucharest Branch, in its capacity as Investment Manager of Fondul Proprietatea SA ("the Fund"), hereby announces that it has received a disclosure of holdings of over 5% of the total voting rights held in the Fund, respectively 5.02%, from the following entities within NN GROUP N.V., as reflected in the Annex.

- NN Group N.V. - as mother-company;

- Fondul de Pensii Facultative NN ACTIV (managed by the voluntary pension fund administrator NN Asigurări de Viaţă S.A.);

- Fondul de Pensii Facultative NN OPTIM (managed by the voluntary pension fund administrator NN Asigurări de Viaţă S.A.);

- Fondul de Pensii Administrat Privat NN (managed by NN Pensii S.A.F.P.A.P. S.A.);

- NN Investment Partners Luxembourg S.A.

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. United Kingdom Bucharest Branch acting as Investment Manager of FONDUL PROPRIETATEA S.A.

Johan MEYER

Legal Representative

Report date:30 March 2017

Name of the issuing entity: Fondul Proprietatea S.A.

Registered office: 78-80 Buzesti St.,7th floor, district 1, Bucharest, postal code 011017

Phone/fax number: Tel.: + 40 21 200 9600 Fax: + 40 21 200 9631

Sole Registration Code with the Trade Register Office:18253260

Order number in theTrade Register:J40/21901/2005

Subscribed share capital: RON 5,742,226,025.22

Paid-up share capital:RON 5,534,852,985.72

Number of shares in issue:

10,074,080,746

Number of paid shares:

9,710,268,396

Regulated market on which the issued securities are traded:Shares on Bucharest Stock Exchange

GDRs on London Stock Exchange