08.10.1999

Summons to Aspocomp Group Oyj- extraordinary meeting of the shareholders

The Aspocomp Group Oyj Board calls an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting for Friday, October 22, 1999 at 15:00. The meeting will be held at the address Suolakivenkatu 10, Helsinki, Finland.

The agenda for the meeting is the following:

The Board will move to provide key company persons to be separately appointed employed by the Group and the Group’s subsidiary with stock options. A total of 750,000 options which would yield a total of 750,000 Aspocomp Group Oyj shares would be issued, of which 375,000 would be subscribed as A options and 375,000 as B options. The subscription price would be EUR 25. The subscription price would be reduced by the amount of dividends paid per share after October 22, 1999 and prior to the clearance dates for each of the dividend distributions on the shares. The subscription period will start, using a staggered framework, on November 1, 2001 for A options and on November 1, 2003 for B options. The subscription period for all of the stock options will expire on November 30, 2005.

Availability of the documents

The Board’s proposal for providing the stock options as well as other documents based on the Companies Act are available for inspection from October 15, 1999 at the address Suolakivenkatu 10, Helsinki, Finland. The above-mentioned documents are available also at the extraordinary shareholders’ meeting. The copies of the documents will be sent to the shareholders upon request.

Right to participate

The right to participate in the shareholders’ meeting rests with a shareholder who has been registered as a shareholder in the Shareholders’ Register kept by Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd no later than October 15, 1999. The right to participate rests also with a shareholder who has the right by virtue of Chapter 3a, Section 4, subsection 2 of the Companies Act.

Preregistration

A shareholder who wishes to participate in the extraordinary shareholders’ meeting should preregister by 16.00 PM on October 18, 1999 by either in writing at the address Aspocomp Group Oyj, P.O.Box 381, FIN-00811 Helsinki, or by telephone at +358 9 7595 276/Minna Pitkänen or by e-mail at yhtiokokous@aspocomp.fi. The proxies entitling the shareholder to vote at the meeting should be submitted to the Company with the preregistration or by separate mail.

The preregistration letter or message as well as the proxy should arrive to the office before the end of the preregistration deadline.

For more information contact the company CEO, Jarmo Niemi by telephone at +358 9 7595 312

ASPOCOMP GROUP Oyj

Jarmo Niemi
President and CEO

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