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1. Acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 10%, of the voting rights, of a company incorporated in the Czech Republic, whose securities are listed at the Czech stock exchange,
2. Acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 20%, of the voting rights and more, of a company incorporated in the Czech Republic, whose securities are listed at the Czech stock exchange, if these shares following a prior notification still exceed 10%.

Shareholding when voting rights/shareholding reach 5% of a company’s total voting rights/share capital (§ 29 par. 1).

Any 5% change in shareholding/votig rights from 10% to 100% and when said holdings reach or fall below 1/3 or 2/3 and/or any change through which said holdings fall below any said limit (§ 29 par. 2).

The Ministry of Finance currently prepares an amendment to the provisions concerning the shareholders’ disclosure requirements. Under the new provisions, the thresholds for disclosure will apparently be 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 per cent and two-thirds of the share capital or voting rights. The Government Proposition on the subject will, according to the current schedule, be submitted to Parliament in September. The intention is to get the proposed amendments approved by Parliament before the next election in March 1999.

• Acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 25%, of the voting rights, of a company, whose securities are listed at the stock exchange,
• Acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 50%, of the voting rights, of a company by another company.

1. Acquiring an ownership of a holding of publicly issued shares in the amount which provides at least 1/10, 1/5 or 1/3 of all votes at the general meeting of shareholders;

2. Selling a holding of shares in the above-mentioned amount after notification to the joint-stock company about the acquisition of the shares;

3. Selling a portion of the above-mentioned holding of shares, thus reducing the seller’s number of votes at the general meeting of shareholders by at least 5%;

4. Wish to acquire a holding in a public joint-stock company giving more than 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 or more of voting rights at a general meeting of shareholders.

• Acquiring or disposing of shares of a public limited company incorporated under Dutch Law and listed at a stock exchange situated and operating in a member state of the European Union, which causes the percentage of the shares to fall within a different bandwidth;
• Acquiring or disposing of votes of such a company, which causes the percentage of votes to fall within a different bandwidth.

1. Direct or indirect acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 5%, 10%,20%, 33 1/3 %, 66 2/3 % of the voting rights, whether or not such rights may be exercised, of a company incorporated in Switzerland, whose equity securities are listed,
2. See the No.1.
3. Direct or indirect acquiring or exceeding of shareholding of 5%, 10%,20%, 33 1/3 %, 66 2/3 % of the voting rights, whether or not such rights may be exercised, of a company incorporated in Switzerland whose equity securities are listed and in addition:

-its total holdings;
-the identity of its members;
-the nature of the agreement;
-The identity of its representatives.

• Acquiring or losing a "material interest" in issued shares carrying voting rights, or becoming aware of the same, which is equal to or more than 3% of the nominal value of the share capital of a public company incorporated in the UK
• Acquiring or losing an interest which is not a "material interest", or an aggregate of "material" and non-material interests, in issued shares carrying voting rights, or becoming aware of the same, which is equal to or more than 10% of the nominal value of the share capital of a public company incorporated in the UK
• Acquiring shares or voting rights thereof bringing one’s total holding up to or above 15% or, where the person’s holding already represented 15% or more of the voting rights, increasing the holding to or beyond any whole percentage figure