Circular Letter CVM/SEP No. 01/01

CIRCULAR LETTER/CVM/SEP/No. 01/01
Rio de Janeiro, January 23, 2001
Subject: Submission of Notice of Relevant Fact

Dear Director,

The Securities and Exchange Commission - CVM has created an icon on its Internet "Home-Page" named Relevant Facts of Open Companies, which aims to provide wide dissemination of Relevant Facts disclosed by open companies.

To this end, it is requested that from this date forward, open companies send to the electronic address fatorelevante@cvm.gov.br the full text of the Relevant Fact, on the same day it is disseminated by the press as provided for in Article 3 of CVM Instruction No. 31/84.

The submission to the aforementioned electronic address does not exempt the open company from sending the said Notice of Relevant Fact as provided for by CVM Instruction No. 202/93.

The submission of the said Relevant Fact must be made from the electronic address of the Director of Investor Relations recorded in the open company's registration with the CVM and must contain the following characteristics:

1. File extension: doc (Word Documents);
2. File content: plain text only, avoiding the inclusion of images;
3. Specifications for creating the file name:
   200101231234567.doc – date (format yyyymmdd)CNPJ - without any spaces or symbols between the numbers.

Sincerely,

Fabio dos Santos Fonseca
Superintendent of Corporate Relations

To:
Director of Investor Relations of the