Qualified Shareholding Capital Group | edp.com

Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 244 of the Portuguese Securities code and of the CMVM Regulation 5/2008, EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. ("EDP") is providing the following information to the market:

On May 14th, 2015, Capital Group notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 551,994,908 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 15.096% of EDP's share capital and 15.096% of the respective voting rights. Capital Group exceeded a 15% shareholding in EDP on May 13th 2015.

Capital Group also informed about the chain of entities relevant for the calculation of the significant shareholding in accordance with number 1 of article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code.

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC"). CRMC manages equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors and Capital World Investors. CRMC in turn is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of five investment management companies ("CGII management companies"): Capital Guardian Trust Company, Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sàrl and Capital International K.K.  The CGII management companies primarily serve as investment managers to institutional clients. Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of EDP for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.


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