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For the month of August, 2006

Commission File Number 1-14668

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COMPANHIA PARANAENSE DE ENERGIA - COPEL
Corporate Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) 76.483.817/0001 -20
PUBLICLY HELD COMPANY

1. PLACE: Rua Coronel Dulcídio, nº 800, Curitiba - PR. 2. DATE AND TIME: August 24, – 2:00 p.m.. 3. CALL NOTICE: Call notice published by the Official Gazette of the State and newspapers “O Estado do Paraná” and “Diário Comércio Indústria e Serviços – DCI”. 4. ATTENDANCE: eighty six wholes, thirty-seven hundredth per cent (86.37%) of the voting capital, as per signatures on the Shareholders’ Attendance Book 3, page 40 5. PRESIDING BOARD: SÉRGIO BOTTO DE LACERDA - Chairman; MARLOS GAIO - Secretary. 6. DELIBERATIONS: I. elected, by unanimous vote, Mr. Luiz Antonio Rodrigues Elias, appointed by the shareholder BNDES Participações S.A. in replacement of the Board Member, Mr. Francelino Lamy de Miranda Grando, appointed and elected by the 50^th Annual General Meeting held on April 25, 2005; - as per the shareholders’ agreement executed between BNDESPAR and the State of Paraná in 1998 -, to complete the 2005-2007 term of office; II. approved, by unanimous vote, with abstention of shareholder BNDES Participações S.A. the adequacy of the main section of article 4 of the Company’s Bylaws in order to adjust the number of shares, due to the conversion of PNA shares into PNB shares, as per shareholder’s request, in accordance with the prerogative foreseen at paragraph 1 of article, with the following wording: Article 4 - Underwritten paid up capital is R$ 3,875,000,000.00 (three billion and eight hundred and seventy-five million reais) represented by 273,655,376,270 (two hundred and seventy-three billion, six hundred and fifty-five million, three hundred and seventy-six thousand and two hundred and seventy) shares, with no par value, composed of 145,031,080,782 (one hundred and forty-five billion, thirty-one million, eighty thousand and seven hundred and eighty-two) ordinary shares, and 128,624,295,488 (one hundred and twenty-eight billion, six hundred and twenty-four million, two hundred and ninety-five thousand and four hundred and eighty-eight) preferred shares, of which 403,355,400 (four hundred and three million, three hundred fifty-five thousand and four hundred) are class “A” shares, and 128,220,940,088 (one hundred and twenty-eight billion, two hundred and twenty million, nine hundred and forty thousand and eighty-eight) are class “B” shares.

SIGNATURES: SÉRGIO BOTTO DE LACERDA – State of Paraná representative and Chairman of the Meeting; LEONARDO FORSTER – BNDES Participações S.A. - BNDESPAR; DANIEL ALVES FERREIRA – The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. RET; Norges Bank; MIGUEL PAIVA LACERDA - Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. – ELETROBRÁS. MARLOS GAIO – Secretary.
Full text of the Minutes of the 168^th Special Shareholders’ Meeting was drawn up on Book #09 of Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL, registered with the Board of Trade of Paraná State under #00/010561-9, on 3.23.2000.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

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COMPANHIA PARANAENSE DE ENERGIA – COPEL

By:	/S/ Rubens Ghilardi
	Rubens Ghilardi CEO