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“The information note (in German and English) in respect of the 2012 EADS Employee Share Ownership Plan is accessible and available free of charge in printed versions to every interested person at the EADS headquarters and at the EADS head offices, in accordance with the European Prospectus Directive n° 2003/71/EC as implemented by European countries.”

EADS supports employee share ownership.
Since its creation, EADS has regularly offered qualifying employees the opportunity to purchase EADS shares on favourable terms through employee share ownership plans (“ESOPs”).

The following table summarises the main terms of the ESOPs conducted from 2000-2012: (including 2010 Special Anniversary Free Share Plan)

Year	Shares subscribed	Delivery date	Discounted Price per share
2012	2,177,103	30 July 2012	27.07 - 28.55
2011	2,445,527	29 July 2011	21.49-22.15
2010	1,184,220	10 July 2010	0€ (Special Anniversary Free Share Plan)
2009	1,358,936	18 Dec 2009	10.76 €
2008	2,031,820	25 Jul 2008	11.70 - 12.79 €
2007	2,037,835	09 May 2007	17.16 - 19.62 €
2006	no offering
2005	1,938,309	29 Jul 2005	18.86 €
2004	2,017,822	03 Dec 2004	18.00 €
2003	1,686,682	05 Dec 2003	12.48 €
2002	2,022,939	04 Dec 2002	7.93 - 8.86 €
2001	2,017,894	05 Dec 2001	10.70 €
2000	11,769,259	21 Sep 2000	15.30 €

ESOP 2010

In 2010, the normal ESOP plan was replaced through a worldwide 10 years EADS – Special Anniversary Free Share Plan for about 118,000 employees in 29 countries.
Each eligible employee was granted 10 free shares in EADS, resulting in the distribution of 1,184,220 shares in total. Such shares were distributed out of treasury and therefore had no impact on the issued share capital.

This exceptional free share grant was implemented in order to celebrate the initial public offering of EADS ten years ago and to strengthen each employee’s sense of belonging to EADS.

FUTURE ESOPS

EADS intends to implement an ESOP in 2012, subject to approval by the Board of Directors. The 2012 ESOP is expected to be a share matching plan, whereby the company would match a certain number of directly acquired shares with a grant of free shares. The total offering would be up to approximately 3.2 million shares of the Company, i.e. up to 0.39% of its issued share capital, open to all qualifying employees.