Umicore

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jul 23, 2012

Transparency declaration by FIL Ltd (Fidelity International): Disposal of voting securities

On 19 July, FIL Limited (Fidelity International), located at PO Box HM 670, Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 17 July 2012 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 5 %, holding 4.91 % of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
FIL Limited	17/07/2012		5,895,636	120,000,000	4.91 %
TOTAL	17/07/2012	< 5.00 %	5,895,636	120,000,000	4.91 %

The chain of control has been described as follows:

"The holdings attributable to FIL Limited arise from holdings of various undertakings for collective investment that are managed by FIL Limited, FIL Investment Services Limited, Fidelity Investments Japan, FIL Investments Advisory (Korea) Ltd and FIL Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited, each of which are entities that are subsidiaries of and controlled by FIL Limited. These undertakings for collective investment have granted FIL Limited discretionary power to vote the securities in accordance with the FIL Limited board proxy voting policy. FIL Limited is not a controlled undertaking."

The declaration can be found on:

http://www.investorrelations.umicore.com/en/shareInformation/shareholderStructure/Declarations/Fidelity201 20719.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

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