Ljubljana Stock Exchange: Electronic Information Dissemination System "SEOnet" -

On Tuesday, 15 January 2002, a new system of electronic information dissemination - SEOnet was launched by the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, Inc. Introduction of the new service was additionally supported by the adoption of the Securities Market Agency (SMA) decree on the amendments of the by-law on obligatory public announcements, which now enables the public announcements of issuers, both in electronic manner and in the printed form, to be practically on an equal footing. At the moment, the SEOnet service is available in the Slovenian language.

Electronic information dissemination system called SEOnet consists of two individual components: one is labelled SEOin, and is a service intended for listed companies and other capital market regulatory institutions - the subscribers to the system, while the other is named SEOnet, and is to serve in particular the needs of broader investing public. The issuers and other subscribers to the system may enter template announcement documents and have the latter published via SEOnet; investors and other users are enabled easy public access to collected published disclosure information. Public announcements are available at http://seonet.ljse.si or at http://www.ljse.si.

SEOnet service also enables the publication of:

• announcements for the public by the subscribers to the system,
• short messages of public announcements of the companies which are not subscribers and must submit such information to the Exchange according to the SMA by-law
• announcements of other regulatory institutions, subscribers to the SEOin service.

SEOnet also enables easy access to historic data on announcements, and its search tools are designed to recognise various browsing criteria. The investing public is thus given a much wider and constant choice of information on announcements, especially since the subscription is free of charge; at the end of a trading day, also a daily summary and an official price list of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange are forwarded to subscribers.

SEOnet is a publicly accessible electronic service of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, Inc., which enables free and easy access to business information both on listed companies as well as on public announcements of the Exchange and other regulatory institutions of the Slovenian capital market. The main aim of the latest service available at the Ljubljana Stock Exchange is to improve the transparency of public announcements for the investing public and simplify the procedure of such announcements for the issuers.