Tomra Systems ASA has today purchased 203,000 own shares at an average price of NOK 38.04 per share at Oslo Stock Exchange. After this transaction Tomra holds 203,000 treasury shares.

 

The purchase is the first under the share buyback program authorized by the Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2006. TOMRA was given an authorization to buy back up to 10 million shares.

 

Further buybacks of shares will be announced as they occur, however only through disclosures to Oslo Stock Exchange and on the company's website www.tomra.com.

 

For further information please contact CFO Espen Gundersen, telephone +47 97 68 73 01

 

Asker, 14 August 2006

Tomra Systems ASA