Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL announced the appointment of the new Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Daniel Pimentel Slaviero, and the Chief Legal and Institutional Relations Officer, Mr. Eduardo Vieira de Souza Barbosa, were elected at the 179th Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors. Daniel Pimentel Slaviero was executive director of the SBT television network between 2017 and 2018 and president of the Associação Brasileira de Rádio e Televisão (ABERT) for four consecutive terms between 2006 and 2016. At the Associação Internacional de Radiodifusão (AIR), the entity which represents 17,000 radio and television broadcasters in the Americas, Asia and Europe, held the vice presidency for South America between 2005 and 2011 and the board of the entity from 2013 to 2018.

Eduardo Vieira de Souza Barbosa was Chief Prosecutor of the Junta Comercial do Paraná between 2011 and 2015, and Legal Director of the CJE da Associação Comercial do Paraná between 2011 and 2016. The company also resolved to remove Mr. José Marques Filho, registering that the position of Executive Officer of Business Development will be vacant. The Board of Directors also resolved, in accordance with Article 22, of the Bylaws, to appoint Mr. Daniel Pimentel Slaviero to occupy the position of Member of this Board, as Executive Secretary, pursuant to Article 19 of the Bylaws, until the Shareholders' Meeting to fill the vacant position previously occupied by Mr. Jonel Nazareno Iurk, who submitted a resignation letter on this date.