Today, on 12 October 2018, the 32nd regular Shareholders’ Meeting of NLB d.d. was held, where Slovene Sovereign Holding (SDH) represented the rights of the Republic of Slovenia as the sole shareholder of the Bank. Following a prior consent from the European Central Bank, the General Assembly adopted a decision to disburse profit for appropriation of NLB d.d. for the fiscal year 2017 in the amount of EUR 270,600,000.00 to its shareholders in dividend, which is EUR 13.53 gross per share, and to keep the remainder at EUR 26,683.47 undistributed as retained profit.     

Additionally, the General Assembly adopted amendments to Article 20 of Articles of Association of Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d., regulating appointment and membership of the Bank’s Supervisory Board in accordance with the European Commission decision binding the Republic of Slovenia to appoint only independent experts to the Supervisory Board of NLB d.d. In the light of the Act on the Protection of the Value of Capital Investment of the Republic of Slovenia in Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d., Ljubljana, passed on 19 July this year, the General Assembly adopted a decision to align the April Shareholders’ Meeting decision in which it mandated the Bank’s Management Board to take certain measures regarding the issue of transferred foreign currency deposits of Croatian depositors, with the aforementioned act. 

This announcement will be available on the Bank's website (www.nlb.si) as of 12th October 2018.