Umicore

Major Shareholding Notification • Mar 30, 2016

FORM TR-1 BE PART I

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
4) Notification by
	A parent undertaking or a controlling person
5) Persons subject to the notification requirement
	Name (& legal form for legal persons)	Address (for legal persons)
	Standard Life Investments (Holdings) Limited	1 George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. EH2 2LL
	Standard Life Investments Limited	1 George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. EH2 2LL
	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	Click persons referred to in points 5 and 6
7) Date on which the threshold is crossed
	19/05/2015	(DD/MM/YYYY)
8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)
	3
		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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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
Standard Life Investments (Holdings) Limited		$\circ$		0.00%
Standard Life Investments Limited		8,460,982		3.78%
IGNIS Investment Service Limited		465,900		0.21%
subtotal		8,926,882		3.99%
TOTAL		8,926,882	$\Omega$	3.99%	0.00%

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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)		0.00%

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TOTAL (Voting rights & Equivalent financial linstruments)		# of voting rights	% of voting rights
	CALCULATE	8,926,882	3.99%

11) Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held, if applicable

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Standard Life Investments (Holdings) Limited is the parent company of Standard Life Investments Limited and IGNIS Investment Services
Limited. Both Standard Life Investments Limited and IGNIS Investment Services Limited ar

12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM

Holder

will cease to hold / will hold again

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voting rights as of

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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

Holder	Number

C) Remarks
	The notification was triggered as a result of reaching the 3% threshold as per the company's articles of association.
Done at	1 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LL
On	24/03/2016 (DD/MM/YYYY)
Name & capacity	# $C$ ianakun.

Dawn Johnston, Service Delivery Analyst

Signature

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