Umicore

AGM Information • Feb 17, 2012

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Registered Office: Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais - 1000 Brussels VAT BE 0401.574.852 RLE Brussels

VOTE B Y CORRESPONDENCE

Extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held on Wednesday 21 March 2012 at 10.00 a.m. at the registered office Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais, B-1000 Brussels.

Original voting form to be returned by Thursday 15 March 2012 at the latest to: UMICORE NV/SA Mr B. Caeymaex Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais B-1000 Brussels (Belgium)

The undersigned, ¹

Owner of shares of UMICORE NV/SA, with registered office at Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais, B-1000 Brussels

hereby irrevocably votes, as indicated hereafter in the appropriate box, on the item of the following agenda :

AGENDA AND VOTING INSTRUCTIONS

Item 1

Motion to renew the authorisation to acquire own shares.

First resolution

Proposed resolution:

Authorising the company to acquire own shares in the company on a regulated market, from 24 April 2012 until 23 October 2013 (included), within a limit of 10% of the subscribed capital, at a price per share comprised between four euros (EUR 4.00) and seventy-five euros (EUR 75.00). Authorising the company's direct subsidiaries to acquire shares in the company on a regulated market within the same limits as indicated above.

Voting instructions :	YES	NO		ABSTAIN (Please delete as appropriate)
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Done at , on 2012
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Signature…………………………………

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

We remind you that this voting form will only be taken into account if it is timely returned to Umicore and provided that the shareholder has complied with the admission formalities of prior registration and confirmation as described in the convening notice.

In case the attendance quorum is not met, this form will remain valid for the extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held on Tuesday 24 April 2012 immediately after the ordinary and special shareholders' meeting to be held at 5.00 pm, provided that the shareholder complies with the registration and confirmation procedure in relation to such meeting of 24 April 2012. The number of shares for which this form can be validly exercised will be established by Umicore in accordance with the number of shares registered and confirmed by the shareholder for the second extraordinary shareholders' meeting.

In case shareholders exercise their right to add items to the agenda of a shareholders' meeting and/or to table draft resolutions, postal votes received by the company before the completed agenda has been issued will remain valid for the items covered. However, votes on agenda items for which new resolutions have been tabled will be invalid.

Shareholders who have voted by correspondence are furthermore excluded from participating at the voting in the shareholders' meeting with the shares concerned.

¹ The person signing the vote by correspondence form should indicate clearly his/her surname (in capital letters), usual forename and address. If these particulars are already given on the form, the person signing should check and, if necessary, correct them.

² Umicore will calculate the corresponding number of votes