Qiagen N.V. — Director's Dealing 2007

Jul 30, 2007

SEC Form 3 — Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: DIGENE CORP (DIGE)
CIK: 0001011582
Period of Report: 2007-07-20

Reporting Person: QIAGEN NV (10% Owner)

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	24835281	Direct

Footnotes

F1: On July 26, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) announced that it had successfully completed its exchange offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Digene Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGE). The exchange offer expired at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, July 20, 2007. At the time the exchange offer closed, 23,270,298 shares, representing approximately 94.6%, of Digene's outstanding common stock, had been tendered. On July 26, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. accepted all tendered shares. On July 30, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. acquired 1,564,983 shares of common stock of Digene Corporation, representing all the remaining outstanding shares of Digene Corporation, as a result of the merger of Digene Corporation with and into Energy Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN N.V., pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger among QIAGEN N.V., QIAGEN North American Holdings, Inc., QIAGEN Merger Sub, LLC and Digene Corporation, dated as of June 3, 2007.