Proposal regarding election of Board of Directors

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Proposal regarding election of Board of Directors The Nomination Committee of Anoto Group has informed the Company of its intention to set forth the following proposal concerning election of Board Members and remuneration for the Board at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on May 15, 2003. Shareholders representing approximately 40 percent of the total number of votes in Anoto Group have expressed their intention to endorse the proposal. It is proposed that the number of board members amount to eight without deputy members. It is proposed that Lars Berg, Christer Fåhraeus, Urban Jansson, Örjan Johansson, Nils Ljung, Nils Rydbeck and Jan Uddenfeldt be re-elected. New election of Kjell Duveblad is proposed. Board member Christer Johansson has announced his intention to decline re-election. It is further proposed that Örjan Johansson be elected chairman of the board. The Board of Directors' fee shall amount to SEK 1,2 million to be divided among the members in accordance with Board's decision. During the past year Örjan Johansson has been working chairman and has been paid approx. SEK 2 million for his services. The Nomination Committee proposes that the remuneration for Örjan Johansson remains unchanged. Kjell Duveblad (born 1954), Stockholm, since the turn of the year runs his own consulting business. Between 1993 and 2002 Kjell Duveblad was president of Oracle Sweden and Vice President of Oracle Nordic & Baltics. In addition Kjell Duveblad has more than fifteen years experience from IBM where he, among other things, worked as business area manager of Enterprise Systems and Networking Systems. Kjell Duveblad is board member of Emerging Technologies ET AB, IT Företagen (Svenskt Näringsliv), North Node AB, Telelogic AB, Teleopti AB and Tritech Systems AB. For more information: Charlotte Laveson Director IR & PR Anoto Group AB +46 733 478 620 Anoto Group AB is a Swedish hi-tech company with unique solutions for transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media, scanning of printed text and intelligent camera surveillance. All products are based on digital camera technology and image processing in real time. The Anoto Group today has three brand names: Anoto® - a comprehensive solution entailing paper, pen and server technologies, allowing us to connect all types of writing paper with the digital world, C-Pen® - a scanning pen that can store, interpret and transfer printed text, and WeSpot(TM) - a hardware and software platform for intelligent camera surveillance. The Anoto Group has around 200 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Stockholm, Boston, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Major shareholders are Ericsson, Capital Group and the founder Christer Fåhraeus. The Anoto share is traded on the O-list, Attract 40 of Stockholmsbörsen (Stockholm Stock Exchange) under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anotogroup.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/05/12/20030512BIT00600/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/05/12/20030512BIT00600/wkr0002.pdf