Verification of the independence requirements

At today's meeting, the Board of Directors of BPER, successfully checked that the Directors elected by the Shareholders' Meeting met the independence requirements as requested by Art. 147-ter paragraph 4 and Article 148 paragraph 3 of the Consolidated Finance Act (D.Lgs 58/98) with regard to:

- the Directors, that declared themselves as such, elected by the Shareholders' Meeting of 18 April 2015, namely: Giulio Cicognani, Elisabetta Gualandri, Roberto Marotta, Valeriana Maria Masperi;

- the Directors in office: Mara Bernardini, Giuseppe Lusignani, Daniela Petitto, Angelo Tantazzi;

- the member of the Statutory Auditors, namely: Antonio Mele (Chairman), Carlo Baldi, Francesca Sandrolini, Vincenzo Tardini, Diana Rizzo - Standing Statutory Auditors - and Giorgia Butturi and Gianluca Spinelli - Alternate Auditors.