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Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, June 9, 2003 To Security and Exchange Commission Office of International Corporate Finance Division of Corporate Finance Washington, DC Re: Special Stockholders Meeting Gentlemen, We hereby inform you of the approval of all the material examined at the Special Stockholders Meeting held on this date, as follows: I- proposals from the Board of Directors for: 1. incorporation of stocks of the stockholders of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Brasil S.A. (BBV Banco) by Banco Bradesco S.A. (Bradesco), converting BBV Banco into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bradesco, in conformity with the provisions of Article 252, Law 6404/76, through: a) ratification of the indication of the appraising companies of the Stockholders Equity of the Companies and of BBV Banco Stocks; b) approval of the Instrument of Entry and Justification of the Incorporation of Stocks of Stockholders, as well as of the Reports on the Appraisal of the Stockholders Equity of the Companies and of BBV Banco Stocks; c) increase of Bradescos Capital, in the amount of R$630,000,000.00, raising it from R$6,300,000,000.00 to R$6,930,000,000.00, by means of the issuance of 70,431,409,114 new nominative-book entry stocks, with no par value, of which 35,482,189,407 are common and 34,949,219,707 preferred stocks, in the proportion of 44.422475667 stocks of Bradesco for each stock of BBV Banco, with 22.379315072 common and 22.043160595 preferred stocks, to be attributed to the stockholders of BBV Banco, regardless of the type of stocks held in BBV Banco; 2. increase of the capital of Bradesco by R$70,000,000.00, raising it to R$7,000,000,000.00, through the capitalization of part of the balance of the "Revenue Reserve - Statutory Reserve of 1996 to 2000" account, without the issuance of stocks, in accordance to the Paragraph One, of the Article 169 of the Law 6404/76; 3. amendment of the main provision of Article 6 of the Corporate Bylaws, on account of the foregoing items that modified Bradescos Capital; II- election of Messrs. José Fonollosa García and Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado, to form Bradescos Board of Directors; III- option for destination of funds obtained in saving accounts by BBV Banco in a consolidated form into Bradesco, in accordance with the provisions of Article 17 of the Regulation attached to Resolution nr. 3005, of July 30, 2002, as well as the use of consolidated financial statements into Bradesco, in the determination of the operating limits referred in the Article nr. 1 of Resolution 2283, of June 5, 1996, of the National Monetary Council, covering all the financial companies controlled by BBV Banco. Dividends: The stocks of Bradesco attributed to the stockholders of BBV Banco will be fully entitled to Dividends and/or monthly Interest on Own Capital, and possibly to complements as of the month in which the respective process is approved by the Central Bank of Brazil, and, in full, to any advantages attributed to the other stocks as of the month of the aforementioned approval. These resolutions will take effect after the necessary approval of the processes by the Central Bank of Brazil. Cordially, Banco Bradesco S.A. José Luiz Acar Pedro Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Director
BANCO BRADESCO S.A.
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José Luiz Acar
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Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Director
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