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Financial Report (January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010)

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o Generationo Distribution networko Supply• Network Administrator of non-interconnected islands (Crete and other non-interconnected islands)• CorporateMines include the lignite extraction activity carried out in the Lignite Centers of West Macedonia and Megalopolis.Generation includes the electricity generation activities in the interconnected system, the system of Crete and thesystem of non interconnected islands.Transmission is responsible for the monitoring, the maintenance and the repair of high tension grid, which is usedfor the transmission of electricity, and is compensated, as the owner of the grid by the Hellenic TransmissionSystem Operator (“HTSO”).Distribution Network includes the operation of electricity distribution to medium and low voltage customers in theinterconnected system, the system of Crete in and the system of non interconnected islands.Supply reflects the Company’s activity which monitors relationships with final customers in the interconnectedsystem, the system of Crete in and the system of non interconnected islands.Network Administrator includes the operation of the network in order to distribute electric power to the consumersof low and medium voltage of the interconnected system and the system of non-interconnected islands.The Corporate acts as the lender (funding source) of all activities and retains in its balance sheet all investmentsin subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures and in its liabilities and shareholders’ equity all equity accounts,funding and provisions of a financial nature. The capital funding account which is also presented in the liabilitiesside of Corporate reflects the funds that have been made available to activities in order to finance their operations.The balance sheet and statement of income of the Corporate is further allocated based on certain allocation ruleswhich are described in detail in the following pages.Related parties are reflected as a separate activity in the unbundled financial statements.Preparation of unbundled trial balancesIn the Company’s accounting system, each cost centre represents an organizational entity, in which the assetsand liabilities are recorded.General and Cost Accounting trial balances, through the codification of each cost centre, provides the ability ofdetection and grouping of data which are directly ascribed to activities, and of composition of activities trialbalances.These trial balances include the balances of all balance sheet and statement of income accounts per activity.In order for these trial balances to be generated, the following tasks are performed (this process is applied peraccount and cost centre for the minimum account degree in General and Cost Accounting):• Cost centers are recorded in order to identify the boundaries of activities and then all cost centers to beassigned to activities with which they are related to.• It is ensured that all cost centers are subordinate to one of the predefined activities and, at the same time,there is no possibility that two distinct activities include the same cost centre.• The sum totals of the cost centers and accounts are reconciled with the comprehensive trial balance of theCompany.• Each modification in cost centers and trial balance accounts is detected and recorded in order to beembedded in the proper activities or balance sheet and income statement accounts respectively.• The trial balance accounts are codified and grouped into sections of the balance sheet and of the incomestatement based on company’s needs and its published financial statements.• The amounts that are depicted in the Corporate trial balance (which include the central financial serviceswhere a significant amount of the accounting entries is performed) and relate to the activities (e.g. significantbalances of suppliers and contractors, taxes etc), are identified and ascribed in the activities based on theinformation extracted through the peripheral subsystems (subsystem of beneficiaries’, fixed assets,constructions etc).• The account balances, which, due to their nature, do not relate to activities into which have been ascribed,are reclassified and ascribed into the correct activities.137

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