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For the month of March, 2008

Commission File Number 1-14668

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COMPANHIA PARANAENSE DE ENERGIA - COPEL
Corporate Taxpayers’ ID (CNPJ) 76.483.817/0001 -20
PUBLICLY HELD COMPANY
CVM Register 1431 - 1

SUMMARY OF THE MINUTES OF THE 83^rd EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

1. VENUE: Rua Coronel Dulcídio, 800, Curitiba, Paraná. 2. DATE AND TIME: March, 6, 2008, at 11:00 A.M. 3. PRESIDING BOARD: João Bonifácio Cabral Júnior – Chairman, Rubens Ghilardi – Secretary. 4. AGENDA AND RESOLUTIONS:
I. approval given to the amendments to Copel’s Bylaws, for the purpose of consolidating the Company’s vertical integration, redefinition of duties and denomination of executive boards, creation of a new executive board, with the definition of specific criteria for the transition of duties, and approval to the holding of a General Shareholders’ Meeting to deliberate on the matter.

5. MEMBERS PRESENT: JOÃO BONIFÁCIO CABRAL JÚNIOR – Chairman, RUBENS GHILARDI –

Secretary, JORGE MICHEL LEPELTIER, LAURITA COSTA ROSA, LUIZ ANTONIO RODRIGUES ELIAS, MUNIR KARAM, NELSON FONTES SIFFERT FILHO, NILDO ROSSATO, and ROGÉRIO DE PAULA QUADROS.

The minutes of Copel’s 83^rd Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors were drawn up and recorded in the Company’s records, Book No. 06, registered with the Commercial Registry of the State of Paraná under no. 05/095391-5, on August 8, 2005.

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