The Societe Anonyme styled “ΑΤΤΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΡΟ OPERATION COMPANY S.A.” (AMEL) was registered in the Register of Limited Companies of Athens Prefecture on 15.02.2001 (Government’s Gazette No. 1092/19.02.2001). The company name "ATTIKO METRO OPERATION COMPANY S.A." is used in its relations with various foreign agencies.
The Company operates based on the rules of private economy, is a Public Utility Company and is supervised by the Minister of Transport and Communications. The head offices of the Company are located in the Athens Municipality, 92 Kifissou Avenue, at Sepolia.
AMEL is a subsidiary company of ATTIKO METRO S.A., as per article 7, paragraph 2, of Law 2669/98 – Organization and Operation of Urban Transportation Modes in the area of Athens, Piraeus and the Suburbs (Government’s Gazette No. 283/18.12.1998).
The scope of AMEL is as follows:
- the organization, administration, operation and utilization of the underground railway network of Lines 2 and 3 and all their extensions in Attica Prefecture, as well as of the facilities, vehicles and, in general, of materials and resource, as well as the co-operation with other Organizations and Mass Transit Agencies in Attica Prefecture, and
- the operation, utilization or co-utilization of any network of fixed route transportation modes. Concurrently, the scope of the Company includes, inter alia, the promotion and communication of goods and services (advertisement), the preparation of designs and the provision of Consultancy services, as well as technical services of any nature related to the aforementioned issues.
The share capital of the Company was initially determined to the amount of two billion Greek Drachmas (GDR 2,000,000,000) divided into two hundred thousand (200,000) shares with a nominal value of ten thousand Greek Drachmas (GDR 10,000) each. Today, the share capital amounts to seventy million one hundred and sixty seven five hundred and forty three Euros and ninety five cents (70,167,543.95 €) divided into two million three hundred and ninety seven hundred and seventeen (2,390,717) shares with a nominal value of twenty nine Euros and thirty five cents (29.35 €) each.
