Capital and share information
Fully paid-in share capital amounts to CHF 205,044,900 [previous year: CHF 307,567,350]. It is divided into registered shares with a par value of CHF 50 [previous year: CHF 75]. Each share has one vote at the General Meeting of Shareholders. Further information concerning the share capital and changes in capital for the past five years can be found in the financial section on pages 44 to 46 in the annual report 2007. No participation or profit sharing certificates exist.

Restrictions on transferability
Registration in the company’s share register as a shareholder with voting rights or beneficiary with voting rights is subject to the approval of the Board of Directors. Approval of registration is subject to the following rules: A natural person or legal entity may directly or indirectly accumulate no more than 5 percent of registered share capital. Persons who are bound by capital or voting rights, by consolidated management or in another similar manner, or who have come to an agreement for the purpose of circumventing this rule, shall be deemed as one person. Applications for registrations that exceed the threshold of five percent are refused. No such applications were received during the year under review.

Nominee registrations
Persons who hold shares for third parties (referred to as nominees) are only entered in the share register with voting rights if the nominee declares his willingness to disclose the names, addresses and shareholdings of those persons on whose behalf he holds the shares. The same registration limitations apply to nominees as to individual shareholders. Applications for registrations that exceed the threshold of five percent are refused. No such applications were received during the year under review.

Cancellation or amendment of restrictions
Cancellation or easing of the restrictions on the transferability of registered shares requires a resolution of the General Meeting of Shareholders passed by at least two-thirds of the shares represented and an absolute majority of the par-value of the shares represented.

Convertible bonds and options
There are no outstanding convertible bonds and no options issued by Georg Fischer.