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TELE SUDESTE CELULAR
PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
PUBLICLY-HELD COMPANY
CNPJ
02.558.129/0001-45 - NIRE 33.3.0026819-7
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TELE SUDESTE CELULAR PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A., HELD ON DECEMBER 19, 2003.
1. DATE, TIME AND PLACE: December 19, 2003, at 3:00 p.m., at Praia de Botafogo, 501, 7° andar, Rio de Janeiro - RJ.
2. CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE MEETING: Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano – Chairman; Evandro Luís Pippi Kruel - Secretary.
3. INSTALLATION: The meeting was convened upon the attendance of the undersigned Directors, representing a quorum in accordance with the Company’s Bylaws.
4. AGENDA AND RESOLUTIONS:
4.1. To review/resolve on the distribution of interests on shareholders’ equity: the proposal to be sent to the Shareholders of the Company for distribution of interests on the shareholders’ equity, in accordance with article 9 of Law 9249/95 and Resolution n° 207/96 of the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission, has been approved in the total amount of forty-two million, five hundred thousand reais (R$42,500,000.00), which results in R$0.092682 per lot of one thousand common shares and of R$0.101951 per lot of one thousand preferred shares, with 15% withholding income tax, resulting in total net interests on the shareholders’ equity of thirty-six million, one hundred and twenty-five thousand reais (R$36,125,000.00), totaling R$0.078780 per lot of one thousand common shares and R$0.086658 per lot of one thousand preferred shares, except for shareholders providing evidence that they are tax exempted or immune. The credit shall be entered in the Company’s accounting records on December 31, 2003, on an individual basis for each shareholder, based on the shareholding position by the end of December 31, 2003. As from January 02, 2004, the company’s shares shall be traded “ex-interests on the Shareholders’ Equity”. The payment, upon being resolved, shall be informed by a Notice to Shareholders. The amount of interests on the shareholders’ equity, net of the applicable withholding income tax, may be ascribed to the amount of minimum mandatory dividend for fiscal year 2003, for all effects provided by the corporate laws.
5. CLOSING OF THE MEETING: There being no further business to be dealt with, the meeting was closed, from which minutes have been drawn-up, which after being read and approved were signed by the Directors present to the Meeting and by the Secretary, and transcribed in the proper book.
Signatures: Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano – Chairman of the Meeting and of the Board of Directors; Fernando Xavier Ferreira; Eduardo Perestrelo Correia de Matos; Kazuo Moriya – Directors. Antônio Viana-Baptista; Ignacio Aller Mallo and Ernesto Lopez Mozo – represented by Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano; Iriarte José Araújo Esteves; Zeinal Abedin Mohamed Bava; Pedro Manuel Brandão Rodrigues and Carlos Manuel de L. e V. Cruz – represented by Eduardo Perestrelo Correia de Matos. Evandro Luís Pippi Kruel – Secretary.
It is hereby declared, for all purposes of law, that this is a faithful copy of the minutes drawn-up in the proper Book.
Evandro Luís Pippi
Kruel
Secretary – OAB-RS 18.780
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Fernando Abella Garcia
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Fernando Abella Garcia
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