Reports

In December 2020, EDP sold a portfolio of Hydro Power Plants in Portugal to a French consortium led by ENGIE. There is an ongoing investigation process about the tax implications of the transaction.

As always, EDP is collaborating with the authorities. EDP understands, considering reputable experts’ opinion, that the operation met all legal and tax requirements.

On 2 June 2017, EDP was made aware of the investigation being carried out by the DCIAP since 2012 regarding the amounts due to EDP for the early termination of the CAEs and the right of use over the DPH.

The procedure is still under investigation and until the present date there are no relevant developments or explanations on why EDP is a defendant.

For further information, please see the latest update regarding this matter as well as EDP’s market notifications and public positionings.

The São Manoel Hydroelectric Power Plant was built a few kilometers from the border of the Kayabi Indigenous Territory, inhabited by three ethnic groups (Kayabi, Apiaká and Munduruku).

The only indigenous manifestation involving the São Manoel Hydroelectric Plant took place at the end of 2017 and the claims were not related to environmental actions implemented by the Company. The controversial fact corresponds to an isolated event and currently there is no other manifestation, and all actions foreseen in its Environmental Licensing Process are being implemented.

This case is related to the bidding strategy in the ancillary services market of EDP Produção's power plants.
According to the AdC - Competition Authority, between 2009 and 2013, EDP Produção would have limited the supply of secondary reserves by the power plants under the CMEC - Contractual Balance Maintenance Costs regime.
In this context, the AdC imposed a fine of €48 million on EDP Produção, which was confirmed by the Competition Regulatory and Supervisory Court (TCRS), following the appeal filed by EDP Produção.
EDP Produção had already paid the fine before the final decision of the TCRS. EDP Produção has appealed the TCRS decision to the Lisbon Court of Appeal (TRL), which partially accepted upholding EDP Produção's appeal, deciding EDP Produção had already paid the fine before the f

E-REDES and some of its employees were accused in 2 legal cases, regarding to 2 wildfires that occurred in 2017 (Pedrogão) and in 2018 (Monchique).Regarding Monchique, the fact-finding debate took place in 2022, where E-REDES and an employee presented their witnesses and discussed other proofs already offered in the written defence, based on which the judge decided not toindict both, based on the facts in the charge made by the Public Prosecutor. This decision has become final, as no appeal has been filed.Regarding Pedrógão Grande, the criminal proceedings were against several defendants, including two E-REDES employees, but the collective court decided that there were no culprits. Although appeals have been filed,none of them was against the decision that acquitted the E-REDES employees.

EDP, S.A. and EDP Comercial were charged by the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) with entering into an alleged non-compete agreement with Sonae MC - Modelo Continente. This decision was appealed before the Portuguese Competition, Regulation and Supervision Court (TCRS), which reduced the fines by 10%, to EUR 2.6 million and EUR 23.2 million, respectively. This TRCS decision was appealed before the Lisbon Court of Appeal (TRL). In April 2021, this court referred the case back to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union was delivered on 26 October 2023, referring a final decision on some of the questions to the TRL. On 19 February, the Lisbon Court of Appeal issued a judgment confirming the TCRS's sentence.