No. 78/2006  | 30-11-2006

Changes in the PKN ORLEN Supervisory Board

Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A. ("PKN ORLEN"), Central Europe’s largest downstream oil company announces that the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on November 30, 2006 appointed Mr. Zbigniew Macioszek, currently Member of the PKN ORLEN Supervisory Board, to the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Additionally the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders appointed to the Supervisory Board: Mr. Robert Czapla, Mr. Konstanty Brochwicz-Donimirski, and Mr. Krzysztof Rajczewski.

Mr Robert Czapla, graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Warsaw University. He finished his post-diploma studies in Corporate Finance and Accounting at the University of Bialystok. At present he is in the process of doctoral studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Training & qualifications:
Mr. Czapla had a pedagogical qualification and he was authorized to be appointed to the supervisory boards of companies of the State Treasury, he also gained an administrative qualification. Mr. Czapla has completed a variety of courses and training in the area of transportation in Poland and abroad (people and freight transportation), tax law, capital group finance, corporate finance, and law on public contracts, as well as management and social communication.

Professional experience:
1994 – 1999 Fiscal commissioner in the Tax Chamber in Lomza (Poland)
1999 – 2003 Deputy to the Director of The National Motor Communication Enterprise in Lomza (Poland) 2003 – present, General Director of the Management of City Transport in Warsaw

Additional professional experience:
1996 – 2000 Teacher, lecturer in the Post–High School of Economics in Lomza (Poland) and in the Center for Economics Education in Lomza
2004 – present, Vice-President of the Supervisory Board of the Municipal Taxi Enterprise in Warsaw

Mr Konstanty Brochwicz-Donimirski, Master of Science in Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology, MBA studies at the New York University, INSEAD. He speaks fluent English and French. He is authorized to be appointed to supervisory boards.

Professional experience:
May 1st,1990 – June 1st, 1992 - systems engineer in VIXEM INC. in New Jersey
August 1st, 1992 – December 1st, 1993 - systems engineer in DONALDSON in New York
December 1st, 1993 – April 1st, 1995 - analyst at GOLDMAN SACHS &Co in New York
March 1st, 1997 – June 1st, 1998 - manager at WOOD&Co in Warsaw
August 1st, 1998 – December 1st, 2001 - manager at ING BARINGS in Warsaw
September 1st, 2005 – present - vice-director at the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Mr. Krzysztof Rajczewski, graduated from the Poznan University of Economics, the Faculty of Production Economics – Master of Economics, and from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Faculty of Law – Master of Law. Legal advisor: practitioner in the District Chamber of the Legal Advisor in Poznan .

Training & qualifications:
Post-diploma Studies in Banking at the Poznan University of Economics, course for supervisory board members of single-member companies at the Poznan University of Economics, course in organization and internal control systems within companies at the HR Promotion Centre in Konstancin-Jeziorna (Poland), courses in “Strategic imagination in decision making processes” at the National School of Public Administration, post-diploma studies in “Company value management” at the Warsaw School of Economics, post-diploma studies in European Law of Banking at the Polish Academy of Science.

Mr. Krzysztof Rajczewski speaks German, English and Russian.

Professional experience:
1990 – 1991 - Specialist in the Polish Chancellery of the Senate
1991 – 1997 - President of the Management Board of the Housing Cooperative in Gniezno (Poland)
1997 – 1999 - Director of the Department of Control and Public Contracts in the Republic of Poland Ministry of Economy, advisor to the Minister of Economy
1999 – 2001 - Director of the Management Board Office of Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. in Warsaw.
2001 – 2002 - Director of the Department in the Bank Ochrony Srodowiska S.A. in Poznan
2002 – 2004 - Legal advisor in a lawyer’s chamber
2004 – present Advocate in a lawyer’s office

Mr. Rajczewski has been a Member and Vice-Chairman in many companies, including: Autostrada Wielkopolska (Wielkopolska Voivoideship Highway), Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie (International Trades in Poznan), Agencja Wlasności Rolnej Skarbu Panstwa (Agency of the Agricultural Properties of the State Treasury), DROMEX in Warsaw, STOMIL in Poznan, Fabryka Akcesoriów Meblowych in Chelmno (Furniture Accessories Plant), Przedsiebiorstwo Energetyki Cieplnej in Gniezno .

The newly elected members of the Supervisory Board are not involved in any activity competing with PKN ORLEN and are not partners of any competing company. They are not members of any board of a competing capital company and are not on the list of insolvent debtors kept on record in the National Court Register Act.