AMADEUS FIRE AG

Transaction in Own Shares • Nov 3, 2005

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Ad-hoc | 3 November 2005 18:01

Amadeus Fire AG: Share buyback program

Ad hoc announcement transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Frankfurt/Main, November 3, 2005. At November 3, 2005 the management board of Amadeus FiRe has decided to start a share buyback program to acquire up to 5 per cent of the registered capital, i.e. up to 264.753 shares, with immediate effect. The buyback will be executed via the stock exchange exclusively and is initially planned for six months. With the buyback program the management board makes use of the authorization to acquire own shares granted by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on May 10, 2005. Until November 9, 2006 the company is authorized to acquire up to 10 per cent of the registered capital as at the date of the resolution until November 9, 2006 (i.e. 529.506 shares) amongst others via the stock exchange. In case the shares are acquired via the stock exchange, the purchase price for one share (not including ancillary acquisition costs) may not deviate by more than 10% from the average closing price (arithmetic mean) recorded for the Company’s shares in the XETRA trading system on the Frankfurt am Main Stock Exchange (or a comparable system that supersedes the XETRA system) over the last five trading days prior to the respective acquisition or promise to acquire the shares. The company has instructed a financial institution to execute the repurchase according to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 of December 22, 2003 whereas it is intended to acquire up to 50 per cent of the average daily trading volume in the month before publication of the buyback program. With the acquisition of own shares the company primarily intends to reduce the equity ratio, to increase the profit per share and should the situation arise to use its own shares as so-called “acquisition currency”. According article 4 section 4 of the Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 specific information regarding transactions of the buyback program has to be disclosed. The information of the further progression of the buyback program will be published on the web site of Amadeus FiRe ( http://www.amadeus-fire.de ) in the category of “investor relations”. AMADEUS FIRE AG Thomas Weider, Investor Relations Tel: +49 (69) 96 876-180 Investor-Relations@AMADEUS-FIRE.de Amadeus Fire AG Darmstädter Landstr. 116 60598 Frankfurt Deutschland ISIN: DE0005093108 WKN: 509310 Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin- Bremen, Düsseldorf, München und Stuttgart End of ad hoc announcement (c)DGAP 03.11.2005