BP PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2007

Feb 13, 2007

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Ad-hoc | 13 February 2007 11:35

BP p.l.c.: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

BP p.l.c. / Miscellaneous

Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG transmitted by DGAP - a company
of EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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BP p.l.c. received on 12 February 2007 from L&G a notification of their
interests in BP Ordinary Shares of US$0.25 each dated 12 February 2007.
The disclosure of their interest in accordance with DTR5 is below.
This notice is given in fulfilment of BP p.l.c.’s obligation under DTR
5.8.12

           NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

Identity of the issuer or the underlying
issuer of existing shares to which voting
rights are attached (ii): BP Plc

Full name of person(s) subject to
the notification obligation (iii): Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)

Date on which issuer notified: 12/02/2007

Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Above 3% (L&G)

Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares: Ord USD0.25
Situation previous to the
Triggering transaction (vi):

Number of Shares: 676,125,274
Number of Voting Rights (viii): 3.01% (under S-198 on 07/08/2002)

Resulting situation after
the triggering transaction (vii):

Number of shares/Direct: 735,407,064
Number of voting rights (ix)/Direct (x): 735,407,064
% of voting rights/Direct: 3.77%

Total
Number of voting rights: 735,407,064
% of voting rights: 3.77%

Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable (xv):

Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)

Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct
and Indirect)

Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)

        Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) 
        (735,407,064-3.77% = LGAS, LGPL & PMC)

Legal & General Investment Management Legal & General Insurance
(Holdings) Limited (Direct) Holdings Limited (Direct)
(LGAS & LGPL)

Legal & General Assurance Legal & General Assurance
(Pensions Management) Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL)
Limited (PMC)

                                    Legal & General Pensions Limited 
                                    (Direct) (LGPL)

Additional information: Notification using shares in issue figure
of 19,457,998,189
First notification under DTR Sourcebook

Contact name: Helen Lewis
Contact telephone number: 020 7528 6742

Notes to the Forms
[i] This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be
filed with the competent authority.
[ii] Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for
identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and
accurate.
[iii] This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the natural
person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights
in the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to
the agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the holder of financial
instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting
rights are attached, as appropriate.
In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h) ,
the following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be
mentioned:
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the natural person or
legal entity that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise
them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is
transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the natural person or
legal entity holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls
the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and
natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these
conditions;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the natural person or legal
entity who has a life interest in shares if that person or entity is
entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the
natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when
the life interest is created;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the controlling natural
person or legal entity and, provided it has a notification duty at an
individual level under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a
combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the
shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares
deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares
allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the natural person or
legal entity that controls the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he
can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who
has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the
voting rights at his discretion.
[iv] Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This
should be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the
natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 unless the holdings of
the shareholder would be lower than 5% of the total number of voting
rights.
[v] The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on
exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in
the case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an
agreement.
The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which
the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes
effect. For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took
effect.
[vi] Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification,
In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction was below 5%,
please state ‘below 5%’.
vii If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold , the notifying
party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only
that the new holding is less than 5%.
For the case provided for in DTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure of
individual holdings per party to the agreement unless a party individually
crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into,
introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.
[viii] Direct and indirect
(ix) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached
‘direct holding’ and voting rights ‘indirect holdings’, please split the
voting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if
there is no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.
(X) Voting rights to shares held by notifying party (DTR 5.1)
(xi) Voting rights held by the notifying party independently of any holding
of shares (DTR 5.2.1)
(xii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying
party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only
that the new holding is below 5%.
(xiii) date of maturity / expiration of the finical instrument i.e. the
date when the right to acquire shares ends.
(xiv) If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the
period - for example once every three months starting form the [date]
(xv) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled
undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification
should also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by
each controlled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled
undertaking holds 5% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent
undertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the
controlled undertaking.
(xvi) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.
(xvii) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the
shareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 and
DTR5.3.

DGAP 13.02.2007

Language: English
Issuer: BP p.l.c.
1 St James's Square
SW1Y 4PD London Großbritannien
Phone: +44 (0) 207-496-4000
Fax: +44 (0) 207-496-4570
E-mail: ir@bp.com
WWW: www.bp.com
ISIN: GB0007980591
WKN: 850517
Indices:
Listed: Amtlicher Markt in SWX; Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen,
Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf; Open Market in
Frankfurt

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