Admission of Cognos AG to collective safe custody and CASCADE-RS

Clearstream Banking¹ hereby informs customers that the registered shares of Cognos AG (ISIN DE0005436109) with effect from

11 May 2015

will be admitted to collective safe custody (CSC) and CASCADE-RS.

Creation of the CSC holdings

The creation of the holdings on the CSC admission date will be carried out without the assistance of Clearstream Banking via Deutsche Bank AG. The issuing of orders in CASCADE and CASCADE-RS will be possible from 11 May 2015.

Registration of the shareholders in the share register

The transfer of holdings via Deutsche Bank AG is carried out in unregistered positions to the depository banks of the shareholders. The registration of the shareholders in the share register of the issuer is implemented via re-registration in CASCADE-RS.

Reimbursement

For re-registrations that are transmitted in the period from 11 May 2015 to 15 May 2015, Clearstream Banking charges a discounted price of 0.30 Euros per position. After this time period, customers of Clearstream Banking will be reimbursed accordingly.

Share register

The share register is managed by ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH.

Note about submission planning

Due to the processing capacities in CASCADE-RS, submissions amounting to 10,000 re-registrations or more per transfer must be agreed in advance with Client Services. Within the scope of overall coordination, Clearstream Banking reserves the right to reject file transfers that have not been agreed upon in advance.

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), registered office at Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB 7500.