TIM Participações S.A. announced that the company's Board of Directors held a meeting on February 5, 2013 to decide upon matters involving the company´s interests. At the end of the meeting, Mr. Andrea Mangoni, a member of the Board of Directors and currently also the company's Chief Executive Officer informed to the other Board members about his decision to resign to his position as Chief Executive Officer, as from March 04, 2013, to which he had been appointed in 2012.