MHP S.A. (LSE: MHPC) (“MHP” or “The Company”), one of the leading agro-industrial companies in Ukraine, focusing on the production of poultry and the cultivation of grain, wishes to inform its stakeholders on the implications of the import ban on Ukrainian poultry imposed by the EU authorities as a result of avian influenza found in the country’s southern Kherson region, as reported on November 30, 2016 by the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights Protection in Ukraine.