Ansaldo STS SpA at its annual general meeting approved a dividend of EUR 0.18, gross of withholding tax, for each of the 159,999,248 shares outstanding with dividend rights and excluding 752 own shares held by the company. The total dividend to be paid out is therefore EUR 28,799,864.64. The dividend will be paid from 23 May 2013 with an ex-date (coupon no. 9) of 20 May 2013. The dividend per share of EUR 0.18 is higher in absolute terms than the EUR 0.175 per share of the previous year (value adjusted for the effect of the third tranche of the capital increase on 9 July
2012, which increased the number of shares from 140 to 160 million).

The company also approved appointment of Luigi Calabria as new Director of the company, replacing Alessandro Pansa. Alessandro Pansa resigned as Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of the company tendered on 5 March 2013.