PGNiG : Current Report No. 65/2016

2016.06.29 Current Report No. 65/2016

Warsaw, June 29th 2016
Changes in the composition of the PGNiG Supervisory Board - supplementary information to Current Report No. 63/2016
Current Report No. 65/2016
As a supplement to Current Report No. 63/2016 of June 28th 2016, the Management Board of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA ('PGNiG', the 'Company') presents additional information on Bartłomiej Nowak and Piotr Sprzączak, the Supervisory Board members appointed by the Annual General Meeting on June 28th 2016.
Bartłomiej Nowak
Bartłomiej Nowak completed management studies at the Kozminski University of Warsaw and is a graduate in Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. He also holds the degrees of Master of Arts in Management and International Business from Bradford University and Master de Recherche from the European University Institute. In 2009, Mr Nowak received a Doctor of Laws degree from the European University Institute, and in 2013 - a Habilitated Doctor degree from the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Bartłomiej Nowak specialises in energy law, business law, competition law, and EU law. In 2007-2009, he worked for Directorate-General for Transport and Energy of the European Commission and as an adviser to the President of the Polish Energy Regulatory Office. In 2010-2014, he was an adviser at the Kancelaria Domański Zakrzewski Palinka sp.k. law firm and member of the Supervisory Board of PTE WARTA S.A.
Since 2009, he has worked for the Leon Kozminski University of Warsaw, initially as Assistant Professor and then Professor at the Law College, as well as Vice-Rector for Economic and Social Studies.
Bartłomiej Nowak is a member of the Scientific Boards of the Aviation Institute, Electron Technology Institute, and the National Centre for Nuclear Research.
Piotr Sprzączak
Piotr Sprzączak is a graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin and the National School of Public Administration of Warsaw. He began his professional career in 2011 at the Oil and Gas Department of the Ministry of Economy, and then the Ministry of Energy. He is currently Head of the Infrastructure Department at the Ministry of Energy.
His main professional focus is on matters related to security of natural gas supplies to Poland. As part of his professional duties, he negotiates EU laws and drafts legislation concerning security of gas supplies. He also coordinates activities related to Poland's membership in the EU and international organisations, energy agreements of which it is a signatory, as well as activities related to international cooperation. In 2011-2014, he was involved in preparing and updating the assessment of risk related to security of gas supplies, a prevention plan and an emergency response plan.
All the new members of the Supervisory Board have declared in their representations that they are not engaged in any activities competing with PGNiG's business, they are not partners in any competing civil-law partnership or another type of partnership, or members of the governing bodies of any company competing with PGNiG, and are not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained under the National Court Register Act.