2016 Annual Report ANNUAL REPORT On the stand-alone financial statements of the CNTEE TRANSELECTRICA SA executed in accordance with Order 1286/2012 of the Minister of Public Finance with later amendments and additions and elaborated in accordance with the provisions of article 227 from Law 297/2004 on the capital market and of Annex 32 from Regulation 1/2006 of the National Securities Commission, for the financial year ended on 31 December 2016 Date of the report: 23 March 2017 Name of issuer: CNTEE TRANSELECTRICA SA, company managed under two-tier system Headquarters: Bucharest 1, Blvd. Gen. Gheorghe Magheru no. 33, postal code 010325 Working location: Bucharest 3, Str. Olteni no. 2-4, postal code 030786 Phone / fax numbers: 021 303 5611/ 021 303 5610 Single code with ORC: 13328043 Sequence number in the RC: J40/8060/2000 Date of Company establishment 31.07.2000/ OUG 627 Capital social: 733,031,420 Lei, subscribed and paid Regulated market where the issued Bucharest Stock Exchange, Premium category securities are transacted: Main characteristics of the issued 73,303,142 shares of 10 Lei / share nominal value each, securities: dematerialised nominative ordinary indivisible shares freely transactable from 29.08.2006 under the symbol TEL Total market value: 2,140,451,746 Lei (29.2 Lei/share on 30.12.2016) Accounting standard applied: International Financial Reporting Standards Auditing: The stand-alone financial statements have been audited Table of contents Message of the Supervisory Board ................................................................................................................. 1 Supervisory Board ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Consultative committees of the Supervisory Board ..................................................................................... 6 Changes in the Supervisory board .............................................................................................................. 7 Report of the Supervisory Board.................................................................................................................. 8 Message of the Directorate ............................................................................................................................. 9 Directorate ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 Changes in the Directorate of Transelectrica: ........................................................................................... 11 Statement of responsible persons ............................................................................................................. 12 Key figures ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Important events ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Management Report ...................................................................................................................................... 15 1. Business model ...................................................................................................................................... 16 1.1. Position on the electricity market ................................................................................................... 16 1.2. Portfolio of activities and tariff-setting model ................................................................................. 18 2. Group structure ...................................................................................................................................... 21 3. Transelectrica on the capital market ...................................................................................................... 24 3.1. Shareholding structure .................................................................................................................. 24 3.2. Share price evolution ..................................................................................................................... 24 3.3. Bonds ............................................................................................................................................. 26 3.4. Dividends ....................................................................................................................................... 27 3.5. Rating ............................................................................................................................................ 27 3.6. Investor relations ........................................................................................................................... 28 4. Risk management .................................................................................................................................. 29 4.1. Policy regarding risk management ................................................................................................ 29 4.2. Objectives of Transelectrica with respect to risk management ..................................................... 30 4.3. Main risks identified ....................................................................................................................... 30 4.3.1. Technical and operational risks ............................................................................................. 31 4.3.2. Financial risks ........................................................................................................................ 31 4.3.3. Interest rate risk ..................................................................................................................... 31 4.3.4. Exchange rate risk ................................................................................................................. 32 4.3.5. Risk associated to the provisions from financing agreements .............................................. 33 4.3.6. Liquidity risk ........................................................................................................................... 33 4.3.7. Credit risk ............................................................................................................................... 33 4.3.8. Strategic risks associated to the regulatory framework ......................................................... 34 4.3.9. Tariff (price) risk associated to the regulatory framework ..................................................... 34 4.3.10. Volume risk ............................................................................................................................ 34 4.3.11. Risk of network codes implementation .................................................................................. 35 4.3.12. Risks associated to the unpredictibility of Energy Markets ................................................... 35 4.3.13. Legality risks resulting from changes in the legal, political, regulatory framework, the social environment or the Company‟s internal policies .................................................................................... 35 4.3.14. Risks regarding security ........................................................................................................ 35 4.3.15. Risks related to the personnel ............................................................................................... 35 4.3.16. Risks associated to environmental protection ....................................................................... 36 5. Human resources ................................................................................................................................... 37 5.1. Structure of personnel ................................................................................................................... 37 5.2. Professional training ...................................................................................................................... 39 5.3. Organisational efficiency project .................................................................................................... 39 5.4. Trade union representation ........................................................................................................... 40 5.5. Research and development activities ............................................................................................ 40 6. Perspectives and challenges ................................................................................................................. 42 Operational Report ........................................................................................................................................ 44 7. Operational data ..................................................................................................................................... 45 7.1. Network configuration .................................................................................................................... 45 7.2. Selected operational data .............................................................................................................. 46 8. RET development ................................................................................................................................... 51 8.1. RET development