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 1st June 2005 it received the verdict of the District Court in Warsaw, which dismissed a complaint 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 of Mr Jacek Bartkiewicz to the position of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PKN ORLEN.