BCR’s shareholders approved the income and expenditure budget for 2010

Meeting of Shareholders (AGOA), approved the income and expenditure budget of BCR for 2010.

lso, in line with the meeting agenda, shareholders reviewed and approved the compensation policy for the supervisory board of the bank in the current year. BCR, a member of the Erste Group, is a universal bank dedicated to both retail and corporate customers. BCR is the leading banking organization in Romania, managing assets worth of more than EUR 17.2 billion. BCR is the most valuable Romanian financial services brand. The bank is offering a full range of banking services having 663 retail branches and agencies (for individuals and micro corporations) located in most of the Romanian cities with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants. The corporate customers are serviced in 48 corporate commercial centres dedicated exclusively to SMEs and big companies. The bank provides to both retail and corporate customers a complex offer of banking products and services, including Internet banking, phone banking and e-commerce services. BCR issues 25 types of debit and credit card, and is the owner of the largest national ATM and POS network - over 2,000 machines and over 17.000 electronic terminals operational at the merchants, for card payments. BCR is currently the most important financial Group in Romania, with operations both in Romania and abroad developed by its local branches, foreign banking subsidiaries and representative offices. BCR is also holding top positions on the financial market segments for leasing, asset management, housing bank, equity and pension funds supported by its domestic subsidiaries.

Erste Group is one of the leading financial providers in CEE. More than 51.000 employees serve 17 million clients in 3,000 branches in 8 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine). As of 30 September 2009 Erste Group has reached EUR 203.6 billion in total assets, a net profit of EUR 720.1 million and cost-income-ratio of 50.9%.

For more information about the products and services provided by BCR:

· Call 0801.0801.227 (InfoBCR) on the fixed phone network, for a local tariff regardless of the country region where the call is placed; call 021/407.42.00 from any phone network or *0801227 using the Vodafone EasyDial service, Mondays through Sundays, between 8:00 and 22:00

· Send an e-mail message at contact.center@bcr.ro. Your enquiries are processed on a daily basis, and the available information in the Contact Center will be provided within a
maximum of 24 hours from the receipt of your message.

· Call 021/311.10.01 and 021/311.02.16 for card assistance services, 24 h 7 days.