Euronext: Expert Commission Decided To Temporarily Remove ARCELOR From CAC 40 And SBF 120 Indices

In view of the outstanding public offer for ARCELOR shares and established practice in such circumstances, the Expert Commission (Indices Committee) has decided to remove temporarily ARCELOR as a component stock of the CAC 40 and SBF 120 indices at the close of trading on 16 June, 2006.

The Commission's decision is taken for strictly technical reasons. It is intended to prevent any threat to the normal completion of arbitrage operations, notably on the CAC 40 index, during the offer, and does not in any way assume any particular outcome for the operation under way.

At the conclusion of the offer and depending on the outcome, the Expert Commission will reexamine the situation of ARCELOR with regard to the indices.