Sale of shares from compensation plans based on (performance share) financial instruments for the purpose of paying tax charges

Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A. hereby announces that on 1 July, after reaching the targets envisaged by the 2013-2015 Strategic Plan, the performance shares provided for by the long-term compensation plan based on financial instruments, approved by the relevant Shareholders’ Meetings, were allocated to the management staff of the Unipol Group. For the sole purpose of allowing management to pay the tax charges arising from such allocation, the sale of a proportionate number of shares granted to Group managers was carried out. The sales transactions, which were concluded on the date hereof, involved a total of 1,573,522 ordinary Unipol shares and took place on the electronic market.