Insider issues 

A listed company is obliged to maintain both a public and a company-specific register on its insiders. Persons qualifying as public insiders are defined in the Securities Markets Act and are obliged to disclose their holdings in the securities issued by the listed company. Accordingly, trading by insiders is public, and data in the insider register must be disclosed no later than the date on which the company files its application for listing with the stock exchange.

Insider instructions are available on our website under the heading Instructions concerning insiders. Those pages also provide guidance on how insiders can trade in their companies' shares without such trading leading to unnecessary suspicion of abuse of insider information.

2 February 2010