Launch of the treasury share purchase programmes for the compensation plans based on financial instruments approved by Unipol Group and certain subsidiaries

In accordance with article 144-bis of CONSOB Issuers’ Regulation, article 5 of Regulation (EU) no. 596/2014 and article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052, starting from today’s date, the Unipol Gruppo S.p.A. (“Unipol”) treasury share (the “Shares”) purchase programmes (individually the “Programme” and together the “Programmes”) will commence, by Unipol and the following directly or indirectly controlled companies: Arca Vita S.p.A., Leithà S.r.l., SIAT S.p.A., UnipolSai S.p.A., UnipolSai Servizi Consortili S.c.r.l. and UniSalute S.p.A. (the “Subsidiaries”).

The purchases will be for a maximum number of 2,255,500 Shares (amounting to approximately 0.314% of the share capital of Unipol), as set out in more detail below, to be used to implement the compensation plans based on performance share type financial instruments, approved by the respective Shareholders’ Meetings of Unipol and the Subsidiaries for the years 2016-2018 (the “2016-2018 Plan”) and 2019-2021 (the “2019-2021 Plan”) and that provide for assignment of the following to the Managers of Unipol and said Subsidiaries:

• the second tranche of 2016-2018 LTI Plan Shares by April next;
• the STI 2019 component referring to the 2019-2021 Plan by May next.

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