Award of stock options according to long term option program

Acta Holding ASA has on the 2nd of November 2011 awarded stock options in accordance with an option program for all employees in the Acta Group within a framework of 5.5 million stock options for each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Reference is made to the notices to Oslo Stock Exchange on 28th of October 2009, 17th of February 2010, 19th of August 2010, 28th of October 2010, 16th of February 2011, 12th of May 2011 and 18th of August 2011.A total of 425 thousand stock options were awarded to 30 employees on the 2nd of November 2011. The total number of outstanding stock options after the