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The EU market will grow by 10 per cent after the enlargement of the European Union by 10 countries. The electricity market within the European Union has been above 2 550 TWh level up to now, after the enlargement it will be almost 2 850 TWh. The Czech market has amounted to ca 54 TWh so far. CEZ, as the largest Czech power company, will make up for 2 per cent of the EU market.

There were 440 nuclear units in the world at the end of January, 2004, another 31 nuclear units are under construction in the world now. The "union nuclear family" is going to enlarge by another 19 units after the enlargement of the European Union by 10 new countries from May 1, 2004. The countries of the enlarged EU will then use 35.2 % of all operational nuclear units in the world. That also means strengthening of the position within the EU by 4.3 %. There were 136 nuclear units in operation in the countries of the original European fifteen.

Alan Svoboda has been elected a new member of the CEZ Board as from 27. 4. 2004 at today´s meeting of the Supervisory Board.

The first promotional locomotive in the Central and Eastern Europe a locomotive of the Czech Railroads called "Rainbow locomotive"-will transport ice-hockey players on the way between Prague and Ostrava during the 2004 Ice-hockey World Championship.