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TIM PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
Publicly-held Company
CNPJ/MF 02.558.115/0001 -21
NIRE 33 300 276 963
MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
HELD ON DECEMBER 14, 2005
DATE AND TIME: December 14, 2005, at 10 a.m.
PLACE: Alameda Santos, 1940, 15º andar, in the city and state of São Paulo.
ATTENDANCES: Messrs. Marco Patuano, Franco Bertone and Isaac Selim Sutton, representing the totality of Board of Directors members. Messrs. Paulo Roberto Cruz Cozza, Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer and Fabiano Gallo, Companys Legal Officer also attended the meeting.
AGENDA: To examine and resolve on the following matters: (1) to declare the distribution and approve the payment of Companys interest on own capital (JSCP), related to 2005; and (2) other issues of Companys interest.
PRESIDING BOARD: Mr. Marco Patuano Chairman; and Mr. Mauro Guizeline Secretary.
RESOLUTIONS: After examining documents and discussions related to the matters of the Agenda, the Board members resolved by unanimous vote and without any restriction: (1) to declare the distribution and approve the payment of Companys interest on own capital (JSCP), related to 2005. JSCP declared herein corresponds to the gross amount of seventy million reais (R$ 70,000,000.00), corresponding to R$ 0.079583755 per lot of thousand (1,000) shares issued by the Company, which after deducting the amount of ten million, five hundred thousand reais (R$ 10,500,000.00) related to the withholding tax (IRRF), pursuant to prevailing laws, results in the net amount of fifty-nine million, five hundred thousand reais (R$ 59,500,000.00), corresponding to R$ 0.067646192 per lot of thousand (1,000) shares issued by the Company, except for the shareholders evidencing they are exempted or subject to different taxation regime. The JSCP amount shall be fully attributed to the dividends to be distributed by the Company related to 2005, pursuant to the provisions in the paragraph 7 of Article 9 of Law 9,249/95 and Paragraph 1 of Article 41 of the Companys Bylaws. The date when JSCP shall be credited into accounting records of the Company shall be December 30, 2005 and the payment shall be made within sixty (60) days after the Companys Annual General Meeting resolves on dividends related to 2005. The Chairman of the meeting requested to record on Minutes that holders of shares issued by the Company shall be entitled to JSCP on December 14, 2005. Thus, as from December 15, 2005 (inclusive), the Companys shares shall be traded Ex-JSCP. The Board of Directors members authorized the Companys Board of Executive Officers to take all the measures necessary to implement the payment of JSCP, as approved herein, and also arranging the publication of Notice to Shareholders upon such issue; (2) Under the scope of this item of the Agenda, the Board of Executive Officers submitted issues of Companys interest, also referring to the delisting as publicly-held company of wholly-owned subsidiaries TIM Nordeste Telecomunicações S.A. and TIM Sul S.A., approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil CVM by means of official letter/CVM/SEP/GEA-2/n. 590/2005 and official letter/CVM/SEP/GEA-2/n. 589/2005, respectively, both dated December 6, 2005.
Closure: Nothing more to be discussed, the meeting was adjourned to draw up these Minutes, as a summary, which after being read, these were approved and signed by all the Board attending members.
São Paulo, December 14, 2005
Marco Patuano
Franco Bertone
Isaac Selim Sutton
Mauro Guizeline
Secretary
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
TIM PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A. | ||
Date: December 15, 2005 | By: | /s/ Paulo Roberto Cruz Cozza |
Name: Paulo Roberto Cruz Cozza | ||
Title: Chief Financial Officer |