Boliden AB Will Replace EMI Group In The S&P European Indices

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P United Kingdom indices effective after the close of trading on Friday 03 August, 2007:

• Boliden AB (Sweden, SEDOL: B1XCBX9, GICS: Materials, GICS Code: 15104020) will replace EMI Group (Great Britain, SEDOL: 0044473, GICS: Consumer Discretionary, GICS Code: 25401030) in the S&P Europe 350 index and will be added to the S&P Euro Plus index, following the acquisition of EMI Group by Terra Firma Capital Partners LTD.

Boliden AB mines, processes and sells metals and mineral products, primarily zinc and copper. The number of shares outstanding will be 289,457,000 and the Investable Weight Factor will be 1. The company will be added to the S&P Europe 350 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Diversified Metals & Mining sub-industry.

Following is a summary of the announced addition and deletion:

S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus, S&P Euro– close of trading 03 August 2007
	COMPANY	GICS ECONOMIC SECTOR	GICS SUB-INDUSTRY
ADDED	Boliden AB	Materials	Diversified Metals & Mining
DELETED	EMI Group	Consumer Discretionary	Movies & Entertainment