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GOL LINHAS AÉREAS INTELIGENTES S.A.
C.N.P.J. n.º 06.164.253/0001 -87
N.I.R.E. 35.300.314.441
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HELD ON DECEMBER 22, 2009
Date, Time and Place: December 22, 2009, at 04:00 p.m., on Praça Comte. Linneu Gomes, S/N, Portaria 3 – Prédio 07 – Meeting Room of the Board of Directors, Jardim Aeroporto, São Paulo (“Company”). Attendance: All the members of the Board of Directors of the Company. Calling: Waived, due to the attendance of all the members of the Board of Directors. Chairmanship of the Meeting: Chairman: Mr. Herique Constantino, who invited me, Claudia Karpat to act as secretary of the meeting. Agenda: To pass resolutions on the following matters: (i) approval of a guarantee to be granted by the Company, in its capacity as intervening party/guarantor in the Loan Agreement to be entered into between Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais S.A. – BDMG (“BDMG”) and VRG Linhas Aéreas S.A. (“VRG” and “Agreement”); (ii) approval of the 2.010 Plan: goals and results (“2.010 Plan - Goals and Results”) and the budget. Resolutions: After the necessary explanations were provided, the following matters were approved by unanimous vote: (i) authorization for a guarantee to be granted by the Company, by way of security, in the Agreement to be entered into between VRG and BDMG, in the amount of up to twenty million reais (R$ 20,000,000.00), intended for financing the expansion of the Confins Aircraft Maintenance Center and for building the aircraft brakes workshop, both of them located at Tancredo Neves International Airport, s/nº, downtown, Lagoa Santa – MG; (ii) the Company’s 2.010 Plan – Goals and Results and the Budget, which originals are filed with the head-office of the Company. Adjournment of the Meeting and Drawing-up of the Minutes: The floor was offered to anyone who might wish to use it and, since nobody did so, the meeting was adjourned for the necessary time for these minutes to be drawn-up. Upon reopening of the meeting, these minutes were read, checked and signed by the attendees. I hereby certify that this is a faithful copy of the minutes which were drawn-up in the proper book.
São Paulo, December 22, 2009.
| ___________________________ | ___________________________ | |
| Henrique Constantino | Claudia Karpat | |
| Chairman | Secretary |
GOL LINHAS AÉREAS INTELIGENTES S.A. |
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By: |
/S/ Leonardo Porciúncula Gomes Pereira |
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Name: Leonardo Porciúncula Gomes Pereira
Title: Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer |
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