Free translation from original document in Portuguese BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL Circular Letter 06084/2012 BCB–Deorf /GTPAL Porto Alegre. July 05, 2011. INSTITUTION Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul S.A. ADRESS Rua Capitão Montanha, 177 – Centro ZIP CODE/CITY/STATE 900018-900 – Porto Alegre (RS) ACT PROCESS NO. ASM/ESM of 04.30.2012 1201555212 DATE OF ORDER 06.27.2012 MATTERS APPROVED: 1. Election of members of the Board of Directors, with mandate until members to be elected at 2013 Annual General Meeting are invested: Individual Tax Payer’s ID no. 511.475.480-72 Name Marcelo Tuerlinckx Danéris Title Counselor /Member 2. Election of members of the Fiscal Council, with mandate until members to be elected at 2013 Annual General Meeting are invested: Individual Tax Payer’s ID no. 563915520-53 070068530-87 540197370-53 057733387-93 001814630-91 650006680-49 457098157-72 489833570-53 472078330-91 010403400-91 Name André Luiz Barreto de Paiva Filho Cláudio Morais Machado João Victor Oliveira Domingues Rafael Rodrigues Alves da Rocha Rubens Lahude Aniger Lorena Ribeiro de Oliveira Eduardo Ludovico da Silva Felipe Rodrigues da Silva Flávio José Helmann da Silva Irno Luiz Bassani Title Effective Fiscal Counselor/Member Effective Fiscal Counselor/Member Effective Fiscal Counselor/Member Effective Fiscal Counselor/Member Effective Fiscal Counselor/Member Deputy Fiscal Counselor Deputy Fiscal Counselor Deputy Fiscal Counselor Deputy Fiscal Counselor Deputy Fiscal Counselor 3. Amendment to the capital stock to R$ 3,500,000,000.00. 4. Approval of Amendment to Bylaws of the Company respective to Articles 1, 4, 5, 14, 15, 24, 30, 59, 68 and 69 of the Company's Bylaws, which provide, respectively: 4.1 to add paragraph 3 to the Article 1, to include the terms established in the Listing Rules of the Level 1 of Differentiated Corporate Governance of BM&FBOVESPA. 4.2 article 4, to reflect the Company’s proposed capital stock increase with funds from the profit reserve. 4.3 article 5, to adequate the Corporate Capital, due to share conversions that took place between March 24, 2011 and February, 2012. 4.4 Article 14, to set the maximum exposure to long-term to eighty percent (80%) of the Company’s net equity. 4.5 Article 15, to alter its paragraph 1, excluding the requirement for members of the Board of Administration to be shareholders of the Company, as amended by Law no. 12431/2011. 4.6 Article 24, to define the deliberative quorum at the meetings of the Board of Administration, pursuant the increase from 8 (eight) to 9 (nine) Board members, who will ratify the resolutions taken by said board. 4.7 Article 30, prohibiting the same person to accumulate the positions of Chairman of the Board of Administration and Company’s CEO. 4.8 Item “c”, of Article 59, to adjust it to Resolution no. 3849 of the Brazilian Central Bank. 4.9 Inclusion of the new chapter related to the Compensation Committee, pursuant to Resolution no. Free translation from original document in Portuguese BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL 3921 of the Brazilian Central Bank. 4.10 Article 68 to exclude and include committees, with the respective renumbering of the Bylaws due to the addition of the chapter mentioned in item 2.9. 4.11 Exclusion of the paragraph 2 of Article 68, with paragraph 1 becoming the sole paragraph. 4.12 Amendment of the Article 69 to adjust it to the composition of the Committees. 4.13 Renumbering of chapters and articles as of the addition of the chapter mentioned in item 2.9 and consolidate the Bylaws. NOTE: The company shall, within five days from the date of the event, log into the Unicad system the date of investiture of the elected members, and to provide all information requested by Unicad, according to Sisorf 14.04.70. ANNEX: Document to be filed at the Registry of Commerce. Organizational Department of the Financial System Technical Management in Porto Alegre Paulo Renato Carneiro Abrahão Deputy Technical Manager Luciano Günter Peixoto Coordinator