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Pirelli- Ministry of environment: pact renewed until 2014

17 January: by adhering to this voluntary project, we commit ourselves to reducing tyre production’s impact on the environment

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The agreement with the Italian Ministry of the Environment for the reduction of tyre production’s impact on the environment has been renewed. Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera had already signed an agreement in January 2012 with the then Minister of the Environment, Corrado Clini during the “Driving Sustainability: a safe road to the future” international conference that took place at Bicocca. Now, we have renewed our commitment and as a result new production methodologies and technologies capable of respecting the environment even more will be experimented with and tested.

Said Dr. Tronchetti:“The signing testifies to our commitment to the realisation of an industrial model of sustainable growth through the development of avant garde technologies that will enable us to improve quality of life while fully respecting the environment”.

PIRELLI & C. SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT RENEWED UNTIL APRIL 2014

No changes to participants or to the number of shares conferred

Pirelli & C. SpA announces that the Shareholder Agreement for Pirelli & C. SpA Block Shares has been renewed and will expire on April 15^th, 2014.

All the participants have expressed their will to renew the agreement by the contractually foreseen deadline, for eventual recessions, of January 15^th, 2013. With the agreement’s renewal, the participants agreed to a modification establishing that its duration will be for one year instead of three.

The table bellows lists the participants of the Shareholder Agreement for Pirelli & C. SpA Block Shares and the number of ordinary shares bound by the agreement:

Pirelli Press Office – Tel. +39 02 64424270 – pressoffice@pirelli.com

Pirelli Investor Relations – Tel. +39 02 64422949 – ir@pirelli.com

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Pirelli green innovation

A technologically advanced and eco-compatible activity for Pirelli in Brazil. In the factory at Meleiro, a city in the south of the country noted for its cultivation of rice, we are developing and using a process for the extraction of silica, essential to tyre production, from rice chaff. The discovery was reported by one of the world’s most prestigious weekly publication, The Economist, in an article devoted to Pirelli in which it also pointed out the environmental benefits derived from the use of a substance such as rice chaff.

Instead of being thrown away, the silica made from chaff is used to reduce tyres’ rolling resistance and increase the vehicle’s efficiency; in addition, the rice’s husks are subsequently used to provide the energy needed for the extraction process.

Southern Brazil offers ideal environmental characteristics for the cultivation of rice, but Pirelli does not exclude the possibility of also exporting this virtuous model of collaboration with the local community, which has enabled us to grow in Brazil in the area of research, to other countries in which it operates.