The Company's Board of Directors maintained a policy of dividend distribution based on the following rules: The value of the dividend distributed must be between ordinary consolidated net earnings; If, as a result of applying the criteria mentioned above, there is a drop in the dividend in a certain year compared to that of the previous year, and the Board of Directors considers that this decrease is a result of abnormal and merely circumstantial situations, it may propose that the value from the previous year should be maintained.