Press releases pg. 180

The power Company CEZ, through an external attorney´s office, lodged a complaint with the authorities responsible for criminal proceedings with the request to investigate activities of the former board chairman and the former board member and the former general manager in the affair of conclusion of a Contract for the right of option between the companies CEZ, Vivendi and Vivendi Telecommunication International.

The Power Company CEZ announces that it will not make public the preliminary business results of the year 2000 according to the international accounting standards (IAS) in March 2001, in spite of the fact that it had originally been notified during its press conference on February 28, 2001. These results shall be made available to the public in the next month, i.e. in April.

Nuclear Power Plants in Dukovany and in Temelin welcome visitors in a number of annually more than 50,000 persons coming mainly from various schools but also a wide range of the public in the Czech Republic as well as from abroad (in the majority from Austria and Germany) very often take advantage of the chance. Anybody has just to pick up the phone and reserve his taking part in a group visit with professional guides assisting during the round trip inside the plants.

"In the second half of last year we have introduced a number of rationalization projects to achieve remarkable increase in work productivity. If seen from the viewpoint of money earnings per employee, it increase by 5 % and, from the viewpoint of electricity production, its increase even made 18 percent. It had been the radical change in the management and organization chart of CEZ that firstly brought about decrease in number of management levels and secondly diminished number of management officers..."