Proposals for Annual General Meeting

The Board of Directors of Biotage AB proposes the Annual General Meeting on April 27, 2006, to: • authorize the Board to issue shares and/or convertibles • resolve on the adoption of a global employee stock option program • resolve on a hedging arrangement for the adoption of the employee stock option program (authorization for the Board to issue warrants)

Authorization for the Board of Directors to issue shares and/or convertibles The Board of Directors of Biotage AB has resolved to propose the General Meeting to authorize the Board to, until the Annual General Meeting 2007, at one or several occasions and with or without deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights, adopt resolutions to issue shares and/or convertibles. The Board of Directors shall have the right to resolve that the shares and/or the convertibles shall be paid in kind or otherwise be subject to conditions referred to in Chapter 2 Section 5 second paragraph 1-3 and 5 of the Swedish Companies Act or that the shares and/or the convertibles shall be subscribed for with a right of set-off. The Board’s resolutions may result in an increase of the number of shares in the company by not more than 8,800,000 shares in the aggregate. Issues may be made in order to finance acquisitions of companies or parts of companies, or to strengthen the company’s capital base and equity/assets ratio. In connection with a directed cash issue, the subscription price for the new shares shall be determined in close connection with the share price for the Biotage share on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the pricing and conditions of any issued convertibles shall be in line with market conditions. In case of full exercise of the authorization, the dilution effect amounts to less than 10 per cent of the share capital and the votes. Adoption of a global employee stock option program The Board has made the assessment that the employee stock options previously allocated to employees in the company have had a positive effect on the group by contributing to a relatively low employee turnover and a good recruitment of new employees. The evaluation made by the Board has shown that remuneration of the employees can be connected to the future development of performance and value within the company by share based incentive programs. The long-term increase in value is thereby rewarded and shareholders and relevant employees share the same goal. Share based incentive programs also create a common perspective for the relevant employees in different parts of the group and give priority to long-term actions. The Board has therefore resolved to propose that the General Meeting shall resolve to adopt a global employee stock option program, according to which employees of the group can be allocated, at no premium, in total not more than 600,000 stock options until the Annual General Meeting 2007. The president of the company and other members of the group management may be allocated in total maximum 80.000 options each, senior executives in total maximum 30.000 options each, junior executives in total maximum 10.000 options each, other executives and key personnel in total maximum 3.600 options each and other employees in total maximum 400 options each. The exercise price for the options shall correspond to the higher of either (a) 110 per cent of the average of the last price paid for a share in Biotage as quoted on the Stockholmsbörsen Official List during the five trading days immediately preceding the date of allocation, and (b) 110 per cent of the last price paid on the date of allocation. The option period shall be seven years from the date of allocation and the options shall be vested after one year to three years after the date of allocation, by one-third of the number of allocated options for each one-year period. The employee stock options shall not constitute securities and shall not be transferable. The right to exercise the options is conditioned upon the option holder still being employed within the Biotage group at the time of the exercise. The Board of Directors shall determine the detailed terms of the employee stock option program. The purpose of the proposed employee stock option program is to provide opportunities for keeping and recruiting skilled employees and the Board is of the opinion that the adoption of a stock option program according to the above is to the benefit of the company and the shareholders. Authorization for the Board to issue warrants with the right to subscribe for new shares In order to secure the fulfillment of the proposed employee stock option program and to adopt the program in a cost efficient, suitable and flexible way, the Board has resolved to propose the General Meeting to authorize the Board to issue warrants which entitle to subscription of newly issued shares in Biotage. In total, no more than 700,000 warrants shall be issued, whereof in total no more than 100,000 warrants are intended to be exercised to cover the costs that may arise as a result of the employee stock option program (mainly costs for social fees or equivalent taxes). Each warrant shall entitle to subscription of one share in Biotage. The right to subscribe for the warrants shall, with deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights, be conferred on a bank, securities broker or similar appointed by the Board. Subscription of shares in the company based on warrants shall take place at a subscription price and on other conditions that in all essential aspects shall correspond to the conditions of the employee stock options which the warrants intend to secure. If all warrants are exercised for the subscription of new shares, the company’s share capital will increase by SEK 700,000, which corresponds to a dilution of less than one per cent of the share capital and votes.