Statement By The Autorité Des Marchés Financiers

Following the market reactions prompted by a report in the Le Figaro newspaper about the investigation that the AMF is conducting into possible insider trading by senior executives of EADS, the French securities regulator wishes to state that:

it submitted an interim memorandum to the prosecuting authorities in Paris in early September, in accordance with law;
it obviously has no comment on the Le Figaro report;
it insists that it has not completed its investigations and is unlikely to do so before the beginning of 2008; consequently, the AMF Board, which has sole authority to commence regulatory proceedings against persons suspected of infringing its General Regulation, has not given an opinion on the matters reported in the article and, at this stage, has decided solely to inform the criminal court thereof;
at this stage of the procedure, which is still a standard inquiry, the persons concerned have not had the opportunity to exercise their right of defence.