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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Aug 7, 2015

Transparency declaration by BlackRock Inc.: Disposal of voting securities

On 6 August, BlackRock Inc., located at 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055, USA, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 31 July 2015 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 5%, holding 4.995% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
BlackRock, Inc	31/07/2015		0	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A.	31/07/2015		2,841,172	224,000,000	1.27%
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.	31/07/2015		65,198	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited	31/07/2015		2,846	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited	31/07/2015		63,998	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC	31/07/2015		87,566	224,000,000	0.04%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited	31/07/2015		79,070	224,000,000	0.04%
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG	31/07/2015		236,692	224,000,000	0.11%
BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited	31/07/2015		773,238	224,000,000	0.35%
BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited	31/07/2015		1,438	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Asset Management Schweiz AG	31/07/2015		1,034	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.	31/07/2015		5,710	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Fund Advisors	31/07/2015		1,935,878	224,000,000	0.86%
BlackRock Fund Managers Limited	31/07/2015		911,496	224,000,000	0.41%

TOTAL	31/07/2015	< 5.00%	11,189,304	224,000,000	4.995%
iShares (DE) I Investmentaktiengesellschaft mit Teilvermögen	31/07/2015		28,252	224,000,000	0.01%
BlackRock Life Limited	31/07/2015		581,790	224,000,000	0.26%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.	31/07/2015		271,296	224,000,000	0.12%
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC	31/07/2015		151,654	224,000,000	0.07%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited	31/07/2015		66,214	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited	31/07/2015		201,986	224,000,000	0.09%
BlackRock International Limited	31/07/2015		190,816	224,000,000	0.09%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association	31/07/2015		2,691,960	224,000,000	1.20%

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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