CVM Instruction No. 357 of December 21, 2001

CVM INSTRUCTION NO. 357, OF DECEMBER 21, 2001.

Amends Article 5 of CVM Instruction No. 229, of January 16, 1995, which provides for the cancellation of the registration referred to in Article 21 of Law No. 6,385, of December 7, 1976.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION - CVM makes public that the Collegiate Body, in a meeting held on this date, and based on § 6 of Article 21 of Law No. 6,385, of December 7, 1976, HAS DECIDED to issue the following Instruction:

Article 1

Article 5 of CVM Instruction No. 229, of January 16, 1995, shall be effective with the following wording:

“Article 5

Within 2 (two) days from the date of the holding of the General Meeting, the controlling shareholder shall, under penalty of liability, publish, in the major circulation newspapers habitually used by the company, a Notice informing that it will submit to the registration of the Securities and Exchange Commission a request for the implementation of the offer, indicating the price and payment or exchange conditions, and simultaneously sending a copy of this Notice to the Stock Exchanges where there has been, in the last two years, trading of securities issued by it.” (NR)

Article 2

This Instruction enters into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Union.

Original signed by
JOSÉ LUIZ OSORIO DE ALMEIDA FILHO
President