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COMPANHIA DE SANEAMENTO BÁSICO DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO – SABESP
PUBLICLY-HELD COMPANY
NOTICE TO THE MARKET
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo – Sabesp, hereby announces to its shareholders and to the market in general that the São Paulo State Sanitation and Energy Regulatory Agency (ARSESP – Agência Reguladora de Saneamento e Energia do Estado de São Paulo) has scheduled the Public Hearing No. 02/2017 for August 31, 2017.
The goal of this hearing is to discuss the Maximum Preliminary Average Tariff (Preliminary Tariff P0) and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), under SABESP's 2nd Ordinary Tariff Revision (OTR).
The documents concerning this Public Hearing – the rules with the procedures to attend the hearing, the application form for oral presentation, as well as the Technical Note NT/F/003/2017, which was an object of Material Fact disclosed by the Company on August, 11th, 2017 – are available to stakeholders at the following addresses:
Internet: http://www.arsesp.sp.gov.br/SitePages/audiencias-publicas.aspx
ARSESP's Headquarters: Avenida Paulista, 2313, 4th floor, CEP 01311-300 - São Paulo-SP
The Technical Note is also available on Sabesp’s Investor Relations website.
Time and location’s details:
Date: August 31, 2017
Time: from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (GMT -3)
Venue: Auditório Espaço de Cidadania (Auditorium Citizen Space) “André Franco Montoro”, located at Patio do Colégio, 148 - Centro - São Paulo - SP - Ground floor (headquarters of the Secretariat of Justice and Defense of Citizenship)
São Paulo, August 18, 2017.
Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP | ||
By: | /s/ Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso
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Name: Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer |
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