MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT


As per our Market Announcement of January 31, 2011, we hereby inform our shareholders and the market in general that the Extraordinary General Meeting of our subsidiary Eletrosul Centrais Elétricas S.A., held on January 11, 2013, approved the incorporation of the company Artemis Transmissora de Energia S.A.
Eletrosul is a privately held company, in which Eletrobras holds 99.75%, and whose main activity is the generation and transmission of electric energy. The incorporation of the above mentioned company is in compliance with its corporate purpose.
Given that the incorporation was approved at the General Meeting of Eletrosul and its subsidiary and, that it has no impact on the consolidated financial statements of Eletrobras, Article 137 of the Law No. 6404/76 does not apply to the shareholders of Eletrobras.
Rio de Janeiro, January 14 2013.
Armando Casado de Araujo

Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer



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