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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Dec 18, 2012

Share information 18 December 2012 CP-2012-34-R 08:30 CET

Transparency declaration by Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund: Acquisition of voting securities

On 13 December, Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund, located at c/o The Vanguard Group, 455 Devon Park Drive, Wayne Pa, 19087, USA, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 7 December 2012 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 3%, holding 3.02% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund	07/12/2012		3,620,000	120,000,000	3.02%
TOTAL	07/12/2012	> 3.00%	3,620,000	120,000,000	3.02%

The chain of control has been described as follows:

The Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund has thousands of shareholders and no individual shareholder controls the fund.

The declaration can be found on:

http://www.investorrelations.umicore.com/en/shareInformation/shareholderStructure/Declarations/Vanguard20 121213.pdf

For more information

Investor Relations:
Geoffroy Raskin	+32 2 227 71 47	geoffroy.raskin@umicore.com
Evelien Goovaerts	+32 2 227 78 38	evelien.goovaerts@umicore.com