Stora Enso's Annual General Meeting and decisions by the Board of Directors

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STORA ENSO OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 1 April 2009 at 16.00 GMT                 

Stora Enso's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 1 April 2009 adopted the accounts  
for 2008 and granted the Company's Board of Directors and Chief Executive       
Officer discharge from responsibility for the period.                           

Resolution on the use of the profit shown on the balance sheet and distribution 
of funds                                                                        
The AGM approved a proposal by the Board of Directors that EUR 0.20 per share,  
in total                                                                        
EUR 157 907 699.80, be distributed to the shareholders from the share premium   
fund of the parent company.                                                     

The AGM authorised the Board of Directors to decide the record and payment dates
for the distribution of the funds. It is currently anticipated that record date 
will be 31 July 2009 and the payment date around 10 August 2009. The dates will 
be confirmed when the Finnish National Board of Patents and Registration has    
given its consent to the decrease of the share premium fund.                    

Members of the Board of Directors                                               
The AGM approved a proposal that the Board of Directors shall have nine members 
and that of the current members of the Board of Directors, Gunnar Brock, Claes  
Dahlbäck, Dominique Hériard Dubreuil, Birgitta Kantola, Ilkka Niemi, Juha       
Rantanen, Matti Vuoria and Marcus Wallenberg be re-elected as members of the    
Board of Directors until the end of the following AGM and that Hans Stråberg be 
elected as a new member of the Board of Directors for the same term of office.  
Jan Sjöqvist was not seeking re-election.                                       

Remuneration                                                                    
The AGM approved the proposed reduced annual remuneration for the Board of      
Directors as follows:                                                           
	Chairman		EUR 67 500                                                           
Vice Chairman	EUR 42 500                                                        
Members		EUR 30 000                                                             

The AGM also approved a proposal that 40% of the remuneration shall be paid in  
Stora Enso R shares purchased from the market.                                  

The AGM approved the proposed annual remuneration for the Board committees as   
follows:                                                                        
Financial and Audit Committee                                                   
	Chairman		EUR 10 000                                                           
Member		EUR   7 000                                                             


Remuneration Committee                                                          
	Chairman		EUR 5 000                                                            
Member		EUR 3 000                                                               

Auditor                                                                         
The AGM approved a proposal that the current auditor Authorised Public          
Accountants Deloitte & Touche Oy be re-elected auditor of the Company until the 
end of the following AGM. The AGM approved a proposal that remuneration for the 
auditor be paid according to invoice.                                           

Appointment of Nomination Committee                                             
The AGM approved a proposal to appoint a Nomination Committee to prepare        
proposals concerning (a) the number of members of the Board of Directors, (b)   
the members of the Board of Directors, (c) the remuneration for the Chairman,   
Vice Chairman and members of the Board of Directors and (d) the remuneration for
the Chairman and members of the committees of the Board of Directors. The       
Nomination Committee shall consist of four members:                             
the Chairman of the Board of Directors                                          
the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors                                     
two members appointed by the two largest shareholders (one each) according to   
the register of shareholders on 1 October 2009.                                 

The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall convene the Nomination Committee   
and the Nomination Committee shall present its proposals to the Board of        
Directors for the AGM to be held in 2010 before 31 January 2010. A member of the
Board of Directors may not be appointed as Chairman of the Nomination Committee.
Annual remuneration of EUR 3 000 shall be paid to a member of the Nomination    
Committee who is not a member of the Board of Directors.                        

Decrease of the share premium fund and the reserve fund of the parent company   
The AGM approved a proposal that the share premium fund as shown in the balance 
sheet of the parent company as per 31 December 2008 be decreased by EUR 1 688   
145 310.08, and the reserve fund as shown in the balance sheet of the parent    
company as per 31 December 2008 by EUR 353 946 990.12 by transferring these     
amounts to the invested non-restricted equity fund.                             

The decrease of the share premium fund and the reserve fund is subject to and   
will become effective following consent by the Finnish National Board of Patents
and Registration.                                                               

Decisions by the Board of Directors                                             

At its meeting held after the AGM, the Stora Enso Board of Directors elected    
from among its members Claes Dahlbäck as its Chairman and Ilkka Niemi as Vice   
Chairman.                                                                       

Claes Dahlbäck, Birgitta Kantola and Ilkka Niemi will continue as members of the
Financial and Audit Committee. Birgitta Kantola was appointed to chair the      
Financial and Audit Committee.                                                  

Claes Dahlbäck (chairman), Dominique Hériard Dubreuil, Ilkka Niemi and Matti    
Vuoria will continue as members of the Remuneration Committee.                  

Stora Enso's Board of Directors appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Markus  
Rauramo as deputy to the CEO as defined in the Finnish Companies Act. The       
specific role of Deputy CEO has been discontinued as of today with the          
retirement of Deputy CEO Hannu Ryöppönen from Stora Enso.                       

For further information, please contact:                                        
Ulla Paajanen-Sainio, VP, Investor Relations and Financial Communications, tel. 
+358 2046 21242                                                                 

www.storaenso.com                                                               
www.storaenso.com/investors                                                     


Stora Enso is a global paper, packaging and forest products company producing   
newsprint and book paper, magazine paper, fine paper, consumer board, industrial
packaging and wood products. The Group has 32 000 employees and 85 production   
facilities in more than 35 countries worldwide, and is a publicly traded company
listed in Helsinki and Stockholm. Our annual production capacity is 12.7 million
tonnes of paper and board, 1.5 billion square metres of corrugated packaging and
6.9 million cubic metres of sawn wood products, including 3.2 million cubic     
metres of value-added products. Our sales in 2008 were EUR 11.0 billion.        



STORA ENSO OYJ                                                                  


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