New Exchange Trading Codes For The Riga Stock Exchange Equities And Investment Funds

Starting with August 1, 2004, the Riga Stock Exchange listed equities and fund units will have new exchange trading codes.

The new exchange trading codes are introduced in anticipation of migration to securities trading in Latvia and Estonia to SAXESS trading system at the end of September. This will be the first step towards an integrated Nordic and Baltic securities market, with seven stock exchanges from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Latvia and Estonia sharing a common trading platform, and Lithuania to join in 2005.

Starting with August 1, the new exchange trading codes of the RSE listed shares and fund units will consist of five symbols, following the same principle as in Tallinn and Helsinki. For shares the first three symbols will be an abbreviation of the issuer’s name (for example, LSC will stand for Latvian Shipping Company), whereas the fourth symbol will be the securities serial code. Currently all Riga Stock Exchange listed shares have one public issue each, so this symbol will be 1; any subsequent issues will have symbols 2, 3 etc. In case shares in the issue prospectus have been described as, for example, A and B series shares, the fourth symbol will be A or B, instead of 1 or 2. The fifth symbol will be letter R, standing for Riga – the stock exchange where the security is listed. Thus, for example, from August 1 the new ticker for Latvian Shipping Company will be LSC1R.

Similar to equities, the fund unit tickers will have the first three symbols from abbreviated name. The fourth symbol will be F, standing for fund unit, and the fifth will be R, standing for Riga.

Riga Stock Exchange listed debt securities will retain the previous tickers.

Issuer name	ISIN code	Exchange trading code as of today	Exchange trading code from 01.08.2004
Main list
Latvijas Gāze	LV0000100899	GAZE	GZE1R
Latvijas kuģniecība	LV0000101103	LASCO	LSC1R
SAF Tehnika	LV0000101129	SAF	SAF1R
Ventspils nafta	LV0000100816	VNFT	VNF1R
Second List
Latvijas balzams	LV0000100808	BALZ	BAL1R
Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca	LV0000100212	DPKR	DPK1R
Grindeks	LV0000100659	GRDX	GRD1R
Liepājas metalurgs	LV0000100535	LMET	LME1R
Olaines ķīmiski - farmaceitiskā rūpnīca	LV0000100501	OLFA	OLF1R
Rīgas kuģu būvētava	LV0000100378	RKBV	RKB1R
Rīgas Transporta flote	LV0000100345	RTFL	RTF1R
Valmieras stikla šķiedra	LV0000100485	VLSS	VSS1R
Free List
Baloži	LV0000100709	BLZI	BLZ1R
Rīgas farmaceitiskā fabrika	LV0000100782	FARM	FRM1R
Grobiņa	LV0000100527	GRZV	GRZ1R
Kurzemes atslēga 1	LV0000100402	KRA1	KA11R
Kvadra Pak	LV0000100717	KVDR	KVD1R
Liepājas autobusu parks	LV0000100907	LATP	LAP1R
Latvijas Jūras medicīnas centrs	LV0000100741	LJMC	LJM1R
Lode	LV0000100428	LODE	LOD1R
Lokomotīve	LV0000101061	LOKOM	LOK1R
Latvijas tilti	LV0000100311	LTTL	LTT1R
NORD/LB Latvija	LV0000101046	PLKB	NLB1R
Ogre	LV0000100626	OGRE	OGR1R
Rīgas autoelektroaparātu rūpnīca	LV0000100881	RAR	RAR1R
Rīgas ostas elevators	LV0000100873	ROEL	ROE1R
Paraugtipogrāfija	LV0000100592	RPTG	RPT1R
Rīgas raugs	LV0000100055	RAUG	RRA1R
VEF Radiotehnika-RRR	LV0000100972	RRR	RRR1R
Rīgas starptautiskā autoosta	LV0000101020	RSAU	RSA1R
Rīgas Sporta pils	LV0000100832	RSPP	RSP1R
Siguldas ciltslietu un mākslīgās apsēklošanas stacija	LV0000100600	SCMA	SCM1R
Saldus mežrūpniecība	LV0000100154	SAMR	SMA1R
Strenču mežrūpniecības saimniecība	LV0000100071	STMR	SMR1R
Tukuma gaļas pārstrādes sabiedrība	LV0000100790	TGPS	TGP1R
VEF	LV0000101079	VEF	VEF1R
Investment Fund List
Baltic Index fonds	LV0000400034	BIF	BINFR
Valsts Obligāciju Fonds	LV0000400059	VOF	GOBFR
Latu rezerves fonds	LV0000400067	LARF	LARFR
Naudas Tirgus Fonds	LV0000400018	NATF	NATFR
Parex Latu obligāciju fonds	LV0000400091	PLOF	PLOFR
Parex Baltijas Jūras sabalansētais fonds	LV0000400109	PBSF	PBSFR
Parex Austrumeiropas sabalansētais fonds	LV0000400174	PASF	PASFR
Parex Austrumeiropas obligāciju fonds	LV0000400125	PAOF	PAOFR