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Procedural Instructions for Handling the Transfer of the Remaining Pension Fund of AFP Profuturo

The Pension Superintendence establishes operational and accounting procedures for AFP Confia, S.A. and AFP Crecer, S.A. to manage the transfer of the remaining pension fund value of $81,008.61 from AFP Profuturo, S.A., in liquidation. The instruction mandates the registration of these funds in specific equity accounts, defines accounting codes for crediting individual pension savings accounts, and outlines the handling of unpaid contributions, arrears, and unreported contributions. It further requires the transfer of supporting documentation and electronic data files to facilitate the identification of ex-affiliates and the settlement of outstanding debts.

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SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 1 of 6

The Pension Superintendence, in the exercise of the legal powers contemplated in letter b) of article 13 of the Organic Law of the Pension Superintendence, ISSUES the following Instruction:

INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO

TITLE I GENERALITIES

I. OBJECT Define the operational and accounting procedures to be followed by Pension Fund Administrators, for the handling of the remainder of the Pension Fund transferred in the year 2003 from AFP Profuturo, in Liquidation.

II. LEGAL BASIS That established in letter u) of article 5 of the Organic Law of the Superintendence, by which the Pension Superintendence is authorized to issue technical norms that facilitate the application and execution of the Law and its respective regulations.

III. DESIGNATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS The following designations and abbreviations will be used in the text of this Instruction: HL: Work History AFP: AFP CONFIA, S.A. and/or AFP CRECER, S.A. SAP: Pension Savings System. Law: Law of the Pension Savings System. Fund: Pension Fund. CIAP: Individual Pension Savings Account. AFP Profuturo: AFP Profuturo, S.A., in Liquidation. (1) Superintendence: Pension Superintendence. DNP: Declaration and non-payment. (1) Shortfalls: Declared and paid payrolls, but for an amount lower than that corresponding to the reported payroll. (1)

SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 2 of 6

TITLE II PROCEDURE FOR DELIVERY OF THE REMAINING VALUE

  1. As a first step, AFP Profuturo will deliver the remaining value of the Fund it administered, amounting to $81,008.61, distributing it in equal parts to the AFPs; this value will become part of the Equity and must be invested in Fund shares.

The remainder of the Fund corresponds to Contributions Pending Application, not identified to date, due to lack of documentation. Most are bank deposits (without any receipt), received at the start of operations of the SAP.

  1. The AFPs that receive the money will register it in the Fund's Equity, investing it in Fund shares, using the following accounts:

  2. Remainder of Contributions from Ex-affiliates of AFP Profuturo 327.01 Unidentified Contributions from Ex-affiliates of AFP Profuturo

  3. The aforementioned account will be charged when it is proven through a copy of a paid payroll to AFP Profuturo, S.A., or other probative document, that such contributions have not been credited to the affiliates' CIAP.

  4. The requesting affiliate will present themselves to the AFP or Previsional Institute where they are affiliated and attach a copy of the payrolls of the paid contributions or another document with probative value, as regulated in Art. 18-A of the Law, regarding admissible documents, with the exception of the use of the Sworn Declaration, which will not be taken as valid for the verification of contributions made to AFP Profuturo.

  5. The settlement process will be carried out: 1) Through investigation of the payrolls currently held to see if they are or are not credited; and, 2) Based on the procedure mentioned in the previous paragraph.

  6. The procedure for crediting identified contributions will be the one described in the Instruction for the Crediting of Individual Pension Savings Accounts. If the period to apply corresponds to the administration of the CIAP in AFP Profuturo, the charge to account 327.01 will be made for the amount corresponding to the mandatory and voluntary contributions, if any, the AFP commission amount, including the insurance premium, will be carried to account 326.01, through which the complementary capitals that AFP Profuturo has pending to pay will be credited to the AFP that is administering the accounts of the beneficiaries of such capitals.

To identify transfers of resources to the CIAPs, coming from the remainder transferred, in due course, from the Pension Fund of AFP Profuturo, the Pension Superintendence has defined operation codes for the referred transactions in the CIAPs, so that

SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 3 of 6

the affiliates affected by these can distinguish the origin of their credits; these codes are the following: (4)

Concept (4) Code (4) Mandatory Contribution Employer of Ex-affiliate of Profuturo 27 Mandatory Contribution Ex-affiliate of Profuturo 100 Voluntary Contribution Ex-affiliate of Profuturo 101 Commission destined to Complementary Capital 102

  1. In the case that one of the AFPs exhausts its available resources and needs more, it will request it at the appropriate time, through a simple note to the other AFP, with a copy to the Superintendence, so that it transfers them, in case the latter still has available resources. To credit complementary capitals pending payment by AFP Profuturo, said value will be debited from account 326.01, in proportion to the complementary capital required for the payment of the beneficiaries of ex-affiliates of AFP Profuturo. (4)

  2. The responsibility of the AFPs extends until the transferred resources are exhausted.

  3. The movement of said Fund will be reflected in the Daily Reports of the Pension Funds of the AFPs through specific accounts for this type of operation and additionally, the AFPs must have online, updated views so that the Superintendence can verify the use of the administered funds; including in said views, the data affected by the movement itself, such as the NUP, accrual month, amount, date of crediting, etc.

  4. There will be no claims by affiliates transferred to the IPSFA, since at the date of the transfer of the remainder, those values would already have been settled; in case of claims from any affiliate to said Institute, it must be referred to the Superintendence to resolve their situation.

TITLE III OPERATIVE MECHANISM OF DOCUMENTATION

AFP Profuturo will deliver, to the AFPs, the original and copy of all the documentation it has in its possession. The documentation to be delivered consists of physical payrolls: in one AFP they will be original payrolls (to the one with the greater number of transfers from AFP Profuturo, as of December 2003); while in the other, they will be photocopies only. The objective is that both have the same documentation, for the agile identification of the holders of records not identified to date, in case of possible transfers of affiliates between them.

The AFPs may store the information transferred from AFP Profuturo, through microfilms or other mechanisms that allow the rapid location of the payrolls, with prior authorization of the Superintendence.

SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 4 of 6

TITLE IV (1) PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING OF REAL ARREARS

  1. With regard to the handling of the information backing the balance of real arrears (DNP and Shortfalls), AFP Profuturo will transfer to the AFPs, for their administration and custody, an electronic file containing the following information and structure: Payroll Header Payroll Details Payroll Deposits Payroll Errors Mandatory Contribution Mandatory Contribution affiliate Voluntary Contribution affiliate Commissions Affiliate Registry (NUP, names, surnames) Employer Registry (NIT, business name) Affiliate_employer Relationship

Regarding the accounting record of the value of the arrears, the following sub-accounts have been established: (4) 122.04 Contributions Pending Collection (DNP) of the Pension Fund AFP Profuturo 227.04 Contributions Pending Collection (DNP) of the Pension Fund AFP Profuturo

  1. When any employer presents themselves to one of the AFPs, with the intention of paying the arrears, a calculation must be made for their settlement in accordance with what is provided in Chapter XI "Treatment of unpaid contributions", of the Regulation of Collection of Contributions to the Pension Savings System, so that they can cancel what is owed.

  2. AFP Profuturo will deliver a detailed file with the historical share values used during its management.

  3. For the calculation of the lost profitability in the CIAP of the workers, the share value of the AFP where the calculation is made at the date the debt originated will be used. For the other parameters of the profitability calculation, what is established in Instruction SAP 01/99 "Instruction for the crediting of individual pension savings accounts, collection of commissions and handling of backlogs by Pension Fund Administrators" will apply. (3)

SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 5 of 6

  1. In case of recovery of shortfalls, the distribution of the payment complement must be applied proportionally to the total owed, in accordance with the payment priority recorded in article 66 of the Regulation of Collection of Contributions to the Pension Savings System and in roman IV of Instruction SAP 01/99 "Crediting of Individual Pension Savings Accounts, collection of commissions and handling of backlogs, by Pension Fund Administrators.

  2. The AFPs are obligated to receive the payment receipts of the contributions owed by the employers, the lost profitability and late interest of the contributions of the affiliates coming from AFP Profuturo.

  3. The AFPs will credit the value of the contributions corresponding to their affiliates; of the remaining contributions, they will inform the other AFP, so that it verifies if the NUPs belong to it, to then carry out the respective transfer of resources.

  4. The AFPs will credit the contributions corresponding to their affiliates; the remaining contributions will be informed to the other AFP, so that it verifies if the NUPs belong to it; if so, it will carry out the transfer of the contributions and the commissions, to integrate the balance of Complementary Capital in question. (4)

  5. When an employer cancels debts of ex-affiliates of AFP Profuturo, the percentages of the insurance premium and commission will become part of the balance of the Complementary Capital that said AFP still owes.

TITLE V (1) (4) PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING OF UNDECLARED AND UNPAID CONTRIBUTIONS

  1. The balance that makes up the account of undeclared and unpaid contributions in AFP Profuturo, will be transferred to the AFPs, along with an electronic file that will contain the detail of the following information: Mandatory Contribution Mandatory Contribution affiliate Voluntary Contribution affiliate Commissions Affiliate Registry (NUP, names, surnames) Employer Registry (NIT, business name) Affiliate_employer Relationship

  2. The use of the following sub-accounts has been established, for the registration of the undeclared and unpaid contributions to said fund. (4)

SSP INSTRUCTIVO No. SAP 06/2006 INSTRUCTIVO DE PROCEDIMIENTOS PARA EL MANEJO DEL TRASLADO DEL REMANENTE DEL FONDO DE PENSIONES AFP PROFUTURO. Approval: 10/13/2006 Validity: 10/13/2006 Alameda Juan Pablo II, between 15 and 17 Norte Ave, San Salvador, El Salvador. Tel. (503) 2281-8000 www.bcr.gob.sv Page 6 of 6

714.03 Presumed Arrears of the Pension Fund AFP Profuturo (4)

  1. Each time an employer presents themselves to settle their pension debt, the AFP is obligated to review this database, in order to verify and inform the employer if they have or do not have, debts for undeclared and unpaid contributions for their corresponding payment, or in its defect, for the respective presentation of probative documents of solvency for their discharge.

  2. Non-compliance with the obligation to declare and pay will be sanctioned in accordance with what is provided in articles 159 and 161 of the Law of the Pension Savings System.

  3. For the issuance of solvencies by the AFPs, they must, prior to their issuance, consult as an indispensable condition the database of the Declared and Unpaid Contributions, and of the Undeclared and Unpaid Contributions (presumed arrears), delivered in due course by AFP Profuturo, relative to their ex-affiliates; in case the employer registered debts with said AFP, solvencies must not be issued to them until they have resolved their situation or prove that the presumption of arrears lacked material basis, resorting for this to the presentation of probative documents for the respective discharge. (2)

TITLE VI GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

Any aspect not contemplated in this Instruction will be resolved by the Superintendence. This Instruction will enter into force from the date of approval.

PENSION SUPERINTENDENCE, in the city of San Salvador, on the thirteenth day of the month of October of two thousand six.

Víctor Antonio Ramírez Najarro Superintendent of Pensions

FSR/LECH/EEI*

MODIFICATIONS: (1) Reform 01/2007 (01) of May 21, 2007. (2) Reform 02/2007 (02) of July 30, 2007. (3) Reform 03-07 (03) of October 4, 2007. (4) Reform 01/2009 (04) of October 23, 2009.