Biocartis Group NV

Major Shareholding Notification • Jan 28, 2019

PRESS RELEASE REGULATED INFORMATION

28 January 2019, 07:00 CET

Disclosure of a transparency notification

Mechelen, Belgium, 28 January 2019 – Biocartis Group NV (the 'Company' or 'Biocartis'), an innovative molecular diagnostics company (Euronext Brussels: BCART), announces today, in accordance with Article 14, paragraph 1 of the Belgian Act of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of major shareholdings in issuers whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market (the 'Belgian Transparency Act'), that it received a transparency notification on 23 January 2019 (the 'Notification'), indicating that as a result of the disposal of voting securities on 17 January 2019 the participation of Capfi Delen Asset Management NV has decreased below the 3% notification threshold.

The Notification contains the following information:

• Reason for the Notification: Acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights. Downward crossing of the lowest threshold.
• Notification by: A person that notifies alone.
• Persons subject to the notification requirement: Capfi Delen Asset Management NV, Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 178, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
• Transaction date: 17 January 2019.
• Downward threshold that is crossed: 3%.
• Denominator: 51,361,088.
• Details of the Notification: Capfi Delen Asset Management NV holds 1,407,633 voting securities.
• Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively being held: Capfi Delen Asset Management NV is directly controlled by Delen Private Bank NV, and is ultimately controlled by Stichting Administratiekantoor 'Het Torentje'. For further information, reference is made to the Notification which is available here on the Biocartis website.

The Notification is available here on the website of the Company.

Pursuant to the Belgian Transparency Act and the articles of association of the Company, a notification to the Company and the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority ('FSMA') is required by all natural and legal persons in each case where the percentage of voting rights in the Company held by such persons reaches, exceeds or falls below the threshold of 3%, 5%, 10%, and every subsequent multiple of 5%, of the total number of voting rights in the Company.

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More information:

Renate Degrave Manager Corporate Communications & Investor Relations e-mail rdegrave@biocartis.com tel +32 15 631 729 mobile +32 471 53 60 64

@Biocartis\_ www.linkedin.com/Biocartis

About Biocartis

Biocartis (Euronext Brussels: BCART) is an innovative molecular diagnostics (MDx) company providing next generation diagnostic solutions aimed at improving clinical practice for the benefit of patients, clinicians, payers and industry. Biocartis' proprietary MDx Idylla™ platform is a fully automated sample-to-result, real-time PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) system that offers accurate, highly reliable molecular information from virtually any biological sample in virtually any setting. Biocartis is developing and marketing a rapidly expanding test menu addressing key unmet clinical needs in oncology. This area represents the fastest growing segment of the MDx market worldwide. Today, Biocartis offers tests supporting melanoma, colorectal and lung cancer. More information: www.biocartis.com. Press Photo Library available here. Follow us on Twitter: @Biocartis_.

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