Following i) the resolution of the Company’s General Meeting held on December 8, 2015, which approved the ordinary share acquisition (share buy-back) and its conditions, and ii) the resolutions of the Board of Directors adopted on December 23, 2015 and December 13, 2017 to execute share buy-back programs on the European regulated market, the Board of Directors announces that on December 16, 2019 the Company acquired already 9,314,968 own ordinary booked shares and its share in all the voting rights exceeded 3% threshold under the Art. 122, Para 1 of the Act on Business Activities on Capital Market. In accordance with the Art. 309 Para 1 of the Business Corporations Act, the Company does not exercise the voting rights attached to the treasury shares. The total number of voting rights (excluding voting rights on the treasury shares) reached 300,905,099 on December 16, 2019 and the amount of share capital was CZK 3,102,200,670.