District Court dismissed a claim raised by Bengodi Finance

Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A. ("PKN ORLEN"), Central Europe’s largest downstream oil company, hereby announces that on 30 September 2004 it received the decision of the District Court in Warsaw in which it dismissed a claim raised by a shareholder, Bengodi Finance S.A., based in Warsaw, regarding the invalidity of resolution no 14 of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders dated 5 August 2004 in respect of the appointment Mr Jacek Bartkiewicz to the position of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PKN ORLEN.

(see also regulatory announcement no 66/2004 dated 12 August 2004)