23.02.2011 Current report no. 9/2011The Management Board of BRE Bank SA announces that on 22nd February 2011 it received from Commerzbank AG, the majority shareholder of the Bank, the following information concerning the letter of comfort:“In view of BRE Bank Group’s sustainable core capital and earnings strength and in accordance with international standards, the existing letters of comfort issued to BRE Bank and its subsidiaries BRE Bank Hipoteczny and BRE Leasing will expire by the end of March 2011. BRE Bank is a strategic core investment of Commerzbank Group in its second home market Central and Eastern Europe, and together with its subsidiaries part of the funding pool of Commerzbank Group.”BRE Bank Group ended 2010 with record high total income of PLN 3.12 billion and a more than 4-fold YoY increase of pre-tax profit to PLN 872.5 million. It’s capital adequacy ratio stood at 15.9% and core tier 1 capital ratio reached 10.4 % at year-end 2010.