EDF SA's Board of Directors, meeting on 20 November 2008 under the Chairmanship of Pierre Gadonneix, decided as last year to pay an interim dividend for the current financial year. For 2008, this interim dividend, which will be paid on 17 December, is of E 0.64 per share and amounts to approximately a total of E 1.2 billion.
This interim dividend thus accounts for half of the total dividend paid in respect of 2007.
The EDF Group, one of the leaders in the energy market in Europe, is an integrated energy company active in all businesses: production, transport, distribution, energy selling and trading. The Group is the leading electricity producer in Europe. In France, it has mainly nuclear and hydraulic production facilities where 95% of the electricity output involves no CO2 emissions. EDF's transport and distribution subsidiaries operate 1,246,000 km of low and medium voltage overhead and underground electricity lines and around 100,000 km of high and very high voltage networks. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to more than 38 million customers around the world, including more than 28 million in France. The Group generated consolidated sales of EUR 59.6 billion in 2007, of which 44% in Europe excluding France. EDF is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and is a member of the CAC 40 index.
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