Banco Bradesco S.A.
Corporate Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) 60.746.948/0001-12
Companies Registrar Number (NIRE) 35.300.027.795
Publicly-Held Company
Special Stockholders’ Meeting
Call for Meeting

We invite the stockholders of this Company to convene in a Special General Meeting, to be held on December 17, 2003, at 4:00 p.m., at the Company’s head office, located in Cidade de Deus, Vila Yara, Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, in the “Salão Nobre”, on the 5th floor of Prédio Novo, in order to:

• analyze the proposals submitted by the Company’s Board of Directors:

1. to group the 1,585,879,423,300 book-entry registered stocks, with no par value, of which 798,940,057,872 are common stocks and 786,939,365,428 are preferred stocks, the latter with no voting rights, representing the Capital Stock, in the proportion of 10,000 (ten thousand) the latter stocks for 1 (one) stock of the respective type, converting them into 158,587,941 book-entry registered stocks, with no par value, being 79,894,005 common stocks and 78,693,936 preferred stocks, the latter with no voting rights, as stated in Article # 12 of the Law 6,404/76;

2. to add, to the existing preferred stock privileges, the right to be offered in an eventual public sale of the Company’s stock control (tag along), entitling their holders to receive a price equal to 80% (eighty per cent) of the price paid for common stocks, which are part of the controlling capital;

3. to set at 100% (one hundred per cent) of the price paid per common stock that is part of the controlling capital, the percentage to be paid to the remaining holders of common stocks, in an eventual public offering, resulting from the sale of the Company’s stock control;

4. to establish the Audit Committee, Compliance and Internal Control Committee and Remuneration Committee.

5. to include to existing duties performed by the Board of Directors, the approval of the Corporate Report on Internal Controls Conformity; the determination for the adoption of strategies, policies and measures aiming at the diffusion of a controlling and risk mitigation culture; and the definition of the Audit Committee members’ remuneration;

6. to create 3 (three) new Department Director positions, in order to meet the expansion and segmentation of the Company’s operating activities, and to increase from 60 (sixty) to 62 (sixty-two) years the age limit for occupying the referred position;

7. to consolidate the Company’s Bylaws, in order to reflect the changes mentioned in above items.

Documents Available to Stockholders: the proposals of the Board of Directors are available to interested parties both at the Company’s Stock and Custody Department, located in Cidade de Deus, Prédio Amarelo, Vila Yara, Osasco, state of São Paulo, and at the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa), at Rua XV de Novembro, 275, Centro, São Paulo, state of São Paulo, besides being available at the Company’s website: www.bradesco.com.br in the Investor Relations Section.

Cidade de Deus, Osasco, São Paulo, December 1, 2003

Lázaro de Mello Brandão
Chairman of the Board of Directors

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