Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting

Financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006 and the distribution of a full year dividend of €0.20 eurocents per share approved

The Financial Statements for 2006 have been approved
Total dividend: €0.20 per share
Balance dividend: €0.115 per share
Two new board members appointed



The Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Mediolanum S.p.A., which met today in Basiglio (Milan), approved the Financial Statements as at 31 December 2006 and the distribution of a total dividend per share of €0.20, of which €0.085 had already been distributed in November 2006. The balance of €0.115 will become payable on 24 May 2007, with coupon detachment on 21 May 2007 (coupon no. 14).


In addition to this, in its ordinary section the Shareholders’ Meeting:

	gave the Board of Directors the power, as in previous years, to purchase and sell up to 8,000,000 own shares, corresponding to 1.10% of the share capital (€72,884,331.70=), for a total amount of €80 million, for a period of one year and, in any case, until the approval of the financial statements for the year 2007.
	increased the total number of Board Members to 14 by appointing Mr. Luigi Berlusconi and Mr. Maurizio Carfagna.
	extended the auditing mandate currently in existence with Reconta Ernst & Young until the financial year 2010, according to art. 8 of the Legislative Decree no. 303/2006.
	introduced some amendments to the Shareholders’ Plan approved on 26 April 2005, in accordance with art. 114-bis of the Consolidated Budget Law.

In its extraordinary section the Shareholders’ Meeting resolved also:

	to amend the proxy granted to the Board of Directors by the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of 26 April 2005 and increase the share capital, in relation to the part offered for subscription to Directors, by raising the number of shares available for the Plan.
	to amend some of the Articles of Association in order to simply update as well as regulate the role of the Executive responsible for drawing up the company’s financial statements.

Basiglio - Milano 3 City, 19 April 2007

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Investor Relations Alessandra Lanzone Tel +39 02 9049 2039 e-mail: investor.relations@mediolanum.it