Verona, 14 March 2012

The Board of Directors of Cattolica Assicurazioni has decided to summon the Shareholders’ Meeting, in ordinary and extraordinary sessions, on 20 and 21 April 2012, respectively, on first and second call. At the ordinary session, Shareholders will be called upon to approve the 2011 Financial Statements and the accompanying report, to establish remuneration policies in line with legislative and statutory provisions in force and the remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for 2012 and of the Board of Statutory Auditors for the three-year period 2012-2014, to appoint 6 members of the Board of Directors, whose terms of office have ended, to appoint the Board of Statutory Auditors and its Chairman. Shareholders will also be called upon to award the assignment of the legal auditing of accounts for fiscal years 2012-2020 and to authorise the purchase and sale of own shares pursuant to law.

The plan for the purchase and sale of own shares will regard a maximum number of shares corresponding to 3% of share capital, for a total maximum book value of own shares EUR 30,000,000, for a period of 18 months from the date of the resolution of the Shareholders’ Meeting. At the extraordinary session, Shareholders will be called upon to approve amendments to the Articles of Association nos. 2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44 and 54, due partially to the need to bring the same in line with legislative provisions and partially to the need for clarity and functionality.