According to the Belgian legislation (law of May 2nd, 2007 and Royal Decree of February 14, 2008 – “Wet en Koninklijk Besluit op de openbaarmaking van belangrijke deelnemingen in ter beurze genoteerde vennootschappen”) a shareholder that directly or indirectly (= together with affiliated persons the shareholder acts in concert with) acquires or disposes, actively or as a consequence of an external event changing the voting rights) of voting financial instruments of a company and hereby reaches, exceeds or falls below a treshold of 5% (or a multiple of 5%) of the denominator has to disclose this to the FSMA (both per email to trp.fin@fsma.be and per fax to Mr. G. Delaere at fax number +32 2 220 54 52) and to the company (per email to viviane.dictus@agfa.com) as soon as possible but no later than 4 business days following the relevant acquisition or disposal. It is recommended to use the specific forms issued by the FSMA for this purpose. These documents are available on the FSMA website or can be obtained through Agfa-Gevaert NV. In addition the corporate bylaws (see Corporate Governance section) of Agfa-Gevaert NV have specified that reaching, exceeding or falling below the initial threshold of 3% of the denominator must also be disclosed in the same way as described above.