Internal regulations on insider trading
ERIKS complies with the requirement to draw up regulations governing the possession of and transactions in its shares by, among others, employees, members of the executive board and members of the supervisory board of ERIKS group nv. A large group of employees and advisors is formally obliged to sign a statement of compliance with the regulations set forth in section 5:65 of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht - Wft). The Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) supervises compliance with these rules. The internal code is evaluated annually and amended where necessary.
Management trade reports »Rules concerning insider information
Members of the surpervisory board and managing board of ERIKS group nv shall be prohibited from executing a transaction in ERIKS-Securities if he or she has inside information.
The law also contains provisions prohibiting, among other things, the execution of transactions in securities other than ERIKS-Securities if the person concerned has inside information within the meaning of the securities act. Those statutory prohibitions apply to everybody, not only to Members of the surpervisory board and managing board of ERIKS group nv. Obviously, the provisions of these rules shall be entirely without prejudice to the prohibitions under the Securities Act.
ERIKS as well as the members of the supervisory board and the members of the managing board must notify the Dutch Authority Financial Markets (AFM) of any transaction in ERIKS-securities concluded by them or on behalf of them.Such transactions are disclosed by the AFM on its website: www.afm.nl
Furthermore transactions are disclosed by the AFM concerning "major holding disclosure" via www.afm.nl; see also Investor Relations