Notice to the Market - IR 07/16

4th Tariff Revision Cycle - Copel Distribuição

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - Copel, pursuant to CVM Instruction 358/2002, hereby informs its shareholders and the market in general that, as provided in the schedule of Copel Distribuição's 4th Tariff Revision Cycle, the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Aneel) sent to Copel's Consumer Council the SPARTA spreadsheet, a file that has all the preliminary figures of Copel's tariff revision, indicating an expected average reduction of 11.5% in captive consumers' tariffs. It is noteworthy that the process still go through several stages, and the final index to be applied to the tariffs must be approved by Aneel until June 24, 2016.

The Company will keep the market informed of further developments regarding this matter.

Curitiba, Brazil, March 23, 2016.

Luiz Eduardo da Veiga Sebastiani

Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer


For additional information, please contact Copel's Investor Relations team:

ri@copel.com or (55-41) 3222-2027


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