Umicore

Major Shareholding Notification • May 3, 2016

PART I
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1) Status of the notification
	Final
2) Issuer
	Name UMICORE
Identification number 0401-574-852
3) Reason for the notification
	Acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
	Downward crossing of the lowest threshold
4) Notification by
	A person that notifies alone
5) Persons subject to the notification requirement
	Name (& legal form for legal persons).	Address (for legal persons)
	Umicore (Naamloze vennotschap - Societé anomyme)	Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
	6) Persons that dispose of, voting rights (Only to be filled in if art. 7 of the Law applies)
	Name (& legal form for legal persons)	Address (for legal persons)
	Please continue entering the information in part II concerning the	erak persons referred to in points 5 and 6
7) Date on which the threshold is crossed
	26/04/2016	(DD/MM/YYYY)
8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)
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		If the holding has fallen below the lowest threshold, you have the option of not entering any numbers under point 10
9) Denominator
	224.000.000

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Ngjarje

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10) Notified details

A) Voting rights	Previous notification		After the transaction
	# of voting rights		# of voting rights		% of voting rights
Holders of voting rights		Linked to securities	Not linked to the securities	Linked to securities!	Not linked to the securities
Umicore	6.820.068
	TOTAL

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[B) Equivalent financial instruments	After the transaction
Holders of equivalent financial instruments	Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise period or date	# of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised	% of voting rights
	TOTAL		(In relation to all expiration dates)

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TOTAL (Voting rights & Equivalent financial instruments)	----------------	# of voting rights	. % of voting rights
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11) Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held, if applicable

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. _________	.	. _________	_________	_________
_______	________ -------------		_________	___ ______

12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM

will cease to hold /
will hold again $\mathbf{0}$ voting rights as of Holder

13) Additional information

	A) Convertible bonds and rights to subscribe to voting securities not yet issued
Holder	Type of financial instrument	Expiration date (DD/MM/YYYY)	Exercise/Conversion period or date	Number	# of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted

B) Shares without voting rights
Holder	Number
C) Remarks
R.
Done at	Brussels
On	28/04/2016	(DD/MM/YYYY)
Name & capacity			Signature	∽ Arie $\ell'$ $\mathcal{A}$
	Géraldine Nolens - Executive Vice President

Baudouin Caeymaex - Senior Legal Counsel

Signature

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