edp announcement

Income Fund of America notifies qualified shareholding in EDP

Lunes, 07 Octubre 2013

Income Fund of America notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 73,654,630 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 2.01% of EDP's share capital and 2.01% of the respective voting rights.

Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 248 of the Portuguese Securities Code, EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. ("EDP") is providing the following information to the market:

Income Fund of America ("IFA") notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 73,654,630 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 2.01% of EDP's share capital and 2.01% of the respective voting rights.

The significant shareholding resulted from the acquisition, on 1st October 2013, of 1,273,911 shares which corresponds to 0.035% of EDP's voting rights.

IFA is a mutual fund registered in the United States under the investment Company Act of 1940. IFA has granted proxy voting authority to Capital Research and Management Company, its investment adviser. Therefore, shares held by IFA are also imputable to Capital Research and Management Company although IFA is the direct owner of shares.

Capital Research and Management Company is a US-based investment adviser that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds.

EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.