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(46) Legal basis of the
consolidated financial
statements
(47) Supervisory Board and
Managing Board
(48) Dividends
– Bank BPH S.A., Kraków, and its subsidiary BPH Bank Hipoteczny S.A., Warsaw
– CA IB International Markets AG, Vienna
– HVB Bank Czech Republic a.s., Prague
– HVB Bank Slovakia a.s., Bratislava
– HVB Bank Hungary Rt., Budapest, and its subsidiary HVB Jelzálogbank Rt., Budapest
– HVB Bank Romania S.A., Bucharest
– HVB Bank Biochim AD, Sofia
– HVB Banka Srbija i Crna Gora A.D. Beograd, Belgrade
– HVB Splitska banka d.d., Split
– Schoellerbank Aktiengesellschaft, Vienna
2. Other financial services companies
– Bank Austria Creditanstalt Leasing GmbH, Vienna
Information required under Austrian law
Pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 19 July 2002, companies governed by the law of a member state of the European
Union have to prepare their consolidated financial statements for financial years beginning
after 31 December 2004 in conformity with the accounting standards adopted in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 6 of the Regulation if, at their balance sheet
date, their shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market in the European Union.
Note 2 contains a list of the standards applied in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 6 of the above Regulation.
In the reporting year, the following persons were members of the Managing Board of
Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG: Willibald CERNKO, Stefan ERMISCH, Erich HAMPEL (as
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer), Wolfgang HALLER (until 5 September 2005 as
Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer), Wilhelm HEMETSBERGER, Regina
PREHOFER, Johann STROBL.
In the reporting year, the following persons were members of the Supervisory Board of
Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG: Erich BECKER, Alberto CRIPPA, Armin Gebhard FEHLE,
Hedwig FUHRMANN, Wolfgang HEINZL, Rudolf HUMER (Deputy Chairman), Stefan
JENTZSCH (until 6 December 2005), Michael KEMMER (from 19 May 2005), Heribert
KRUSCHIK (until 20 April 2005), Wolfgang LANG (until 31 January 2005), Adolf LEHNER,
Gerhard MAYR, Michael MENDEL (from 19 May 2005 as Chairman), Emmerich PERL
(from 20 April 2005), Gerhard RANDA (until 19 May 2005 as Chairman), Franz RAUCH,
Thomas SCHLAGER, Veit SORGER, Wolfgang SPRISSLER.
Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG may pay a dividend in the maximum amount of the profit
available for distribution as shown in the company’s separate financial statements pursuant
to the Austrian Commercial Code and the Austrian Banking Act.
Proposal for the appropriation of profit for 2005:
The profit of Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG for the financial year beginning on 1 January
2005 and ending on 31 December 2005 amounted to € 479.9 m. The amount of
€ 115.7 m was allocated to reserves and the profit brought forward from the previous
year was € 4.1 m. Thus the profit available for distribution was € 368.3 m. It is proposed
that, subject to approval at the Annual General Meeting, a dividend of € 2.50 per share
entitled to a dividend be paid on the share capital of € 1,068,920,749.80. As the number
of shares is 147,031,740, the total amount of the proposed dividend is € 367.6 m.
Furthermore, it is proposed that the remaining amount of € 0.7 m be carried forward to
new account.
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