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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
For the month of October, 2003

Commission File Number 001-14485
 
 
TELE SUDESTE CELULAR PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

Tele Sudeste Cellular Holding Company
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 

Praia de Botafogo, 501, 7o andar
22250-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
(Address of principal executive office)
 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F. 

Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F _______

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

Yes _______ No ___X____

 

TELE SUDESTE CELULAR PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
CNPJ (TAX ID) 02.558.129/0001-45 - NIRE (STATE ID) 33.3.0026819-7
Publicly-held Corporation with Authorized Capital

MINUTES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
TELE SUDESTE CELULAR PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A., HELD ON OCTOBER 17, 2003.

1.     DATE, TIME AND VENUE: October 17, 2003, at 7:00 p.m., exceptionally, at Rua Abílio Soares no. 409, 15th floor, São Paulo — SP

2.     PRESIDING OFFICERS: Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano – Presiding Officer; Evandro Luís Pippi Kruel – Secretary.

3.     INITIATION: The meeting began, in the presence of the Board Members who sign this minute, there being a quorum under the terms of the Bylaws

4.     AGENDA AND RESOLUTIONS:

4.1.     Election of Chief Executive Officer and Vice-President of Clients: to elect to the position of Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Francisco José Azevedo Padinha, Portuguese, married, engineer, bearer of foreigner’s identity document RNE no. V-248636-O, enrolled with the Individual Taxpayer’s Registration – CPF/MF under no. 055.063.577-70, resident and domiciled in the Capital City of the State of São Paulo with offices in the State of Rio de Janeiro –RJ, at Praia de Botafogo, no. 501, 7th floor, Torre Corcovado, and to hold the position of Vice-President of Clients, Mr. Guilherme Silvério Portela Santos, Portuguese, married, engineer, bearer of foreigner’s identity document RNE no V329591-W, enrolled with the Individual Taxpayer’s Registration –CPF/MF under no 057.649.617-00, resident and domiciled in the Capital City of the State of São Paulo with offices at Praia de Botafogo, no. 501, 7th floor, Torre Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, as appointed in the Company´s meeting of the Board of Directors, held on April 16, 2003. The term of office of the executive officers, hereby elected, will expire on 4/16/2006. It is also confirmed that the administrators declare that they have not incurred in any of the crimes provided for in Law that would prevent them from engaging in commercial activities, and that they are in a position to sign the statement required by CVM Instruction no. 367/2002 and that they undertake to submit such statement duly signed, at the time of execution of their Investiture Instrument. With Mr. Francisco José Azevedo Padinha’s and Mr. Guilherme Silvério Portela Santos’ election, Mr. Fernando Abella Garcia and Mr. Paulo Cesar Pereira Teixeira leave the positions of Chief Executive Officer and Vice-President of Clients, respectively, which they held in this interim. With the changes passed on this date, the Executive Board of Tele Sudeste Celular Participaç&otidle;es S.A. is hereby comprised of:

4.2.     Reratification – to re-ratify the signatures item in the certificate of the minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors held on October 6, 2003, so that where it read Eduardo Carlos Gadelha de Faria, it shall read Kazuo Moriya.

5.     CLOSURE OF THE MEETING: With no further matters to be discussed, the meeting was adourned and these minutes were drawn up, which read and approved, are signed by the Board Members present and by the Secretary and recorded in the appropriate book.

Signatures: Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano – Presiding Officer; Fernando Xavier Ferreira; Eduardo Perestrelo Correia de Matos Kazuo Moriya – Board Members; Ernesto Lopez Mozo; Antonio Viana-Baptista; Ignácio Aller Mallo – Board Members represented by Mr. Felix Pablo Ivorra Cano; Carlos Manuel de Lucena and Vasconcelos Cruz, Iriarte José Araújo Esteves; Zeinal Abedin Mohamed Bava and Pedro Manuel Brandão Rodrigues — Board Members represented by Mr. Eduardo Perestrelo Correia de Matos and Evandro Luís Pippi Kruel – Secretary.

It is hereby declared for all purposes that the present document is a true and correct copy of the minutes drawn up and recorded in the appropriate Book.

Evandro Luís Pippi Kruel
Secretary– OAB-RS 18,780

 

 

 
SIGNATURE
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: October 31, 2003

 
TELE SUDESTE CELULAR PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
By:
/S/  Fernando Abella Garcia
 
Fernando Abella Garcia
Investor Relations Officer
 

 

 
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