Umicore

Major Shareholding Notification • May 5, 2015

Regulated information 5 May 2015

Transparency declarations by Norges Bank

On 30 April, Norges Bank, located at Bankplassen 2, PO Box 1179, Sentrum, 0107, Oslo, Norway, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 28 April 2015 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 3%, holding 2.49% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
Norges Bank	28/04/2015		5,577,224	224,000,000	2.49%
TOTAL	28/04/2015	< 3.00%	5,577,224	224,000,000	2.49%

The declaration can be found here.

On the same day, Norges Bank, located at Bankplassen 2, PO Box 1179, Sentrum, 0107, Oslo, Norway, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 29 April 2015 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 3%, holding 3.32% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
Norges Bank	29/04/2015		7,437,224	224,000,000	3.32%
TOTAL	29/04/2015	> 3.00%	7,437,224	224,000,000	3.32%

The chain of control has been described as follows:

Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway. As part of its central bank activities, Norges Bank manages Norway's foreign exchange reserves and is responsible for management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The formal responsibility for management of the GPFG is placed with the Ministry of Finance, but is delegated to Norges Bank. All investments are executed by Norges Bank acting as principal and all holdings are registered in the name of Norges Bank.

The declaration can be found here.

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