Disclosure of shares: Obligation to notify

• Swiss owners: 72%
• Private individuals: 36%
• Legal entities:   36%

• Foreign owners: 28%
• Private individuals: 4%
• Legal entities: 24%

Five disclosure notifications were made in the year under review, three of them from UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG and one each from the BlackRock Group and Prof. Dr. Giorgio Behr and Behr Deflandre & Snozzi BDS AG considered as shareholders belonging to the same group.

As at 31 December 2012, the shareholder group of Prof. Dr. Giorgio Behr and Behr Deflandre & Snozzi BDS AG and UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG had voting rights of between 3 % and 5 %. BlackRock Inc, USA had voting rights of over 5 % as at 31 December 2012.

The disclosure of management transactions promotes the provision of information to investors and contributes to the prevention and prosecution of market abuse.

The provisions regarding the disclosure of management transactions impose on issuers to report transactions concluded by members of their board of directors and executive committee in the given company's equity securities, convertible and purchase rights on the company's shares, and financial instruments whose price is materially dependent on the company's own equity securities.

Members of the board of directors and executive committee must report to their issuing company all transactions that fall within the scope of these regulations within two trading days.

Georg Fischer must submit SIX Exchange Regulation within three further trading days a report that discloses, among other things, the name and function of the individual (i.e. executive member of the board of directors, member of the executive committee, or non-executive member of the board). SIX Exchange Regulation will then publish the report on its Website without the individual's name, however with an indication of the given individual's function.

The significant shareholders are published on the website of SIX Swiss Exchange.