with reference to the proceedings launched in Herambiente and Akron, you are hereby informed that by means of provision dated 27 February 2014 the Anti-trust Authority recognised an abuse of dominant position of Hera and the subsidiary Herambiente, inflicted a fine on both the companies jointly and severally for Euro 1,898,700, for having directly conferred to Akron (in turn a subsidiary of Herambiente) the paper-based municipal waste originating from separate waste collection.