Board changes at ALSTOM - proposed appointment of Pascal Colombani

The Board of ALSTOM has proposed the appointment of Pascal
Colombani as a Director of the Board. A resolution relative to
his appointment will be submitted for shareholders' approval at
the Shareholders' Meeting to be held on second call on 9 July
2004.

Mr. Colombani is currently Associate Director of A.T.
Kearney, Paris, the management consulting firm, and a
non-executive director of British Energy. He is also a member
of the French Academy of Technology.

M. Colombani was a member of several Boards of Directors in
recent years, including France Telecom (1998-2000),
Electricité de France (2000-2003) and Areva (2001-2003),
where he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

He held several management positions at Schlumberger in the
USA and France (1978-1992), in Brussels (1993-1995) and in
Japan (1995-1997), before joining the French Ministry of
Research as Director of Technology (1998-1999) and heading the
Atomic Energy Commission of France (2000-2002).

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Investor relations:

E. Chatelain

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