Press releases transparency law
Act of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major holdings in issuers whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market and laying down miscellaneous provisions (the “Act”): Articles 15 §1, 18 §1 and 29 – Information concerning NV Bekaert SA.
Status as of 31 December 2009
Basic data |
Total capital: |
175 665 000,00 EUR |
Total number of securities conferring voting rights: |
19 896 408 shares |
Total number of voting rights (the denominator): |
19 896 408 (one voting right per share) |
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Supplementary data |
Total number of debentures convertible into securities conferring voting rights: |
none |
Total number of rights, whether or not reflected by securities, to subscribe for securities conferring voting rights yet to be issued: |
251 745 subscription rights (each subscription right entitles the holder to one new share upon exercise) |
Total number of voting rights that may result from the exercise of such subscription rights: |
251 745 (one voting right per new share) |
Total number of shares without voting rights: |
none |
Thresholds set by the Articles of Association
According to 14bis of the Articles of Association the provisions of Articles 6 through 17 of the Act apply not only to the legal thresholds of 5 % and of each multiple of 5%, but also to the thresholds of 3% and 7.50%.
Information concerning the transparency legislation
Detailed information can be found in the Extract from the Guide to the Transparency Legislation CBFA_2008_16 of 8 July 2008 (available
from the website
of the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (CBFA):
www.cbfa.be/eng/gv/ah/circ/pdf/cbfa_2008_16.pdf
). For the notifications the CBFA recommends the use of its standard form TR-1 BE (also available from the CBFA website:
www.cbfa.be/eng/gv/ah/circ/pdf/TR-1BE.xls)
.
The notifications should be transmitted to both NV Bekaert SA and the CBFA. The CBFA recommends transmitting the notifications first electronically, to the e-mail address
trp.fin@cbfa.be
, and subsequently – for reasons of legal certainty – by fax to no ++ 32 2 220 59 12.
It is recommended to transmit notifications to NV Bekaert SA electronically as well, to the attention of:
Mr Pierre Schaubroeck
Group General Counsel and Company Secretary
E-mail address:
pierre.schaubroeck@bekaert.com
Fax: ++ 32 56 23 05 46
Telephone: ++ 32 56 23 05 35