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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Oct 8, 2015

Transparency declaration by BlackRock Inc.

On 6 October, BlackRock Inc., located at 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055, USA, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 30 September 2015 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 5%, holding 5.03% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
BlackRock, Inc	30/09/2015		0	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC	30/09/2015		103,222	224,000,000	0.05%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited	30/09/2015		63,998	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited	30/09/2015		79,070	224,000,000	0.04%
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG	30/09/2015		257,406	224,000,000	0.11%
BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited	30/09/2015		770,334	224,000,000	0.34%
BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited	30/09/2015		1,438	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Asset Management Schweiz AG	30/09/2015		1,034	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Fund Advisors	30/09/2015		1,989,204	224,000,000	0.89%
BlackRock Fund Managers Limited	30/09/2015		979,496	224,000,000	0.44%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association	30/09/2015		2,638,110	224,000,000	1.18%
BlackRock International Limited	30/09/2015		190,816	224,000,000	0.09%
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC	30/09/2015		201,986	224,000,000	0.09%

BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited	30/09/2015		54,102	224,000,000	0.02%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited	30/09/2015		149,198	224,000,000	0.07%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.	30/09/2015		272,112	224,000,000	0.12%
BlackRock Life Limited	30/09/2015		577,878	224,000,000	0.26%
BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A.	30/09/2015		2,851,972	224,000,000	1.27%
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.	30/09/2015		65,198	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited	30/09/2015		2,846	224,000,000	0.00%
iShares (DE) I Investmentaktiengesellschaft mit Teilvermögen	30/09/2015		28,084	224,000,000	0.01%
TOTAL	30/09/2015	> 5.00%	11,277,504	224,000,000	5.03%

The declaration can be found here.

The chain of control has been described as follows:

BlackRock, Inc. is the ultimate controller but the legal entities detailed in section 10 above are the discretionary Investment Managers who holds the shares and exercise the voting rights.

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