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BAM regulations on the holding of and effecting transactions in shares and certain other financial instruments

Contents

Recitals

Chapter I Introduction
Article 1 Definitions
Article 2 Scope
Article 3 Statutory prohibitions and notification obligations

Chapter II General prohibitions applicable to all BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, BAM Executives, and Designated BAM Employees
Article 4 Prohibitions with regard to BAM Financial Instruments
Article 5 Prohibitions with regard to Affiliated Financial Instruments
Article 6 Prohibitions with regard to Other Financial Instruments
Article 7 Prohibition against disclosure; prohibition against making recommendations

Chapter III Notification obligations applicable to all BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, and BAM Executives
Article 8 Notification obligations under Chapter 5.4 of the FMSA

Chapter IV Notification obligations applicable to all BAM Managing Directors and BAM Supervisory Director s
Article 9 Notification obligations under Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA

Chapter V Specific provisions with regard to BAM Managing Directors
Article 10 Freedom of investment; long-term investment in BAM Financial Instruments
Article 11 Prohibitions with regard to options

Chapter VI Specific provisions with regard to BAM Supervisory Directors
Article 12 Freedom of investment; long-term investment in BAM Financial Instruments
Article 13 Prohibitions with regard to options

Chapter VII Specific provisions with regard to BAM Executives
Article 14 Prohibitions with regard to options
Article 15 Notification obligations under the FMSA

Chapter VIII Specific provisions with regard to Designated BAM Employees
Article 16 Prohibitions with regard to options
Article 17 Notification obligations under Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA

Chapter IX Other BAM Employees
Article 18 Prohibition against effecting transactions, disclosure and making recommendations
Article 19 Notification obligations under Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA

Chapter X Affiliated Persons
Article 20 Notification obligation

Chapter XI Other provisions
XI.1 Central Officer
Article 21 Appointment and dismissal
Article 22 Contact details
Article 23 Duties and powers
Article 24 Advice; dispensation
Article 25 Deputy(ies)
Article 26 Annual reporting

XI.2 Register
Article 27 Contents
Article 28 Responsibility; aims
Article 29 Provision to third parties
Article 30 Custody; custody period
Article 31 Inspection
Article 32 Adjustment of data
Article 33 Security

XI.3 Forms
Article 34 Forms

XI.4 Designations and notifications
Article 35 Designated BAM Employees
Artikel 36 Closed Periods
Article 37 Affiliated Issuing Institutions
Article 38 Notification of prohibitions

XXI.5 Final Provisions
Article 39 Sanctions
Article 40 Circumstances not covered by the BAM Regulations
Article 41 Entry into force
Article 42 Amendments
Article 43 Governing law

Annex
Definitions
Sanctions (pdf)

The managing board of Koninklijke BAM Groep N.V. with its corporate seat in Bunnik, having obtained the supervisory board's approval, has adopted the following Regulations on the holding of and effecting transactions in Shares and certain other Financial Instruments relating to Koninklijke BAM Groep N.V. and affiliated issuing institutions:

Recitals

• The BAM Regulations have been adopted in compliance with Section 5:65 of the FMSA.
• The BAM Regulations are also intended to promote that BAM Employees act, with regard to the Financial Instruments that they hold, in accordance with the law, including the FMSA, and the codes applicable to the Company, including the Dutch Corporate Governance Code, and to limit the risk that the good reputation of the Company and the integrity of its business is harmed as a result of undesirable transactions in Financial Instruments.

Chapter I Introduction

Article 1 Definitions

In the BAM Regulations capitalised terms shall have the meanings set out in the Annex to the BAM Regulations.

Article 2 Scope

1. The BAM Regulations contain the regulations on the holding of and effecting transactions in BAM Financial Instruments, Affiliated Financial Instruments, and Other Financial Instruments by BAM Employees.
2. The BAM Regulations shall apply to all BAM Employees, unless the BAM Regulations provide otherwise. The BAM Regulations shall apply to BAM Employees irrespective of the capacity in which they Execute Transactions and shall also apply if the BAM Employee in question Executes a Transaction for another person’s account or as another person’s representative.
3. The BAM Regulations applicable to BAM Managing Directors are: Chapters I through V, and XI.
4. The BAM Regulations applicable to BAM Supervisory Directors are: Chapters I through IV, VI, and XI.
5. The BAM Regulations applicable to BAM Executives are: Chapters I through III, VII, and XI.
6. The BAM Regulations applicable to Designated BAM Employees are: Chapters I, II, VIII, and XI.
7. The BAM Regulations applicable to Other BAM Employees are: Chapters I, IX, and XI.
8. The BAM Regulations applicable to Affiliated Persons are: Chapters I, X, and XI.

Article 3 Statutory prohibitions and notification obligations

The provisions of the BAM Regulations shall be without prejudice to the prohibitions of the FMSA, including those with regard to market manipulation, and the generally applicable notification obligations of the FMSA.

Chapter II General prohibitions applicable to all BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, BAM Executives, a nd Designated BAM Employees

Article 4 Prohibitions against executing transactions in relation to BAM Financial Instruments

1. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from making use of Inside Information by Executing, for his or her own account of for the account of a third party, either directly or indirectly, Transactions in BAM Financial Instruments to which the Inside Information relates.
2. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from making use of Inside Information by trying to Execute, for his or her own account of for the account of a third party, either directly or indirectly, Transactions in BAM Financial Instruments to which the Inside Information relates.
3. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from Executing Transactions in BAM Financial Instruments during a Closed Period, irrespective of whether the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee is thereby using Inside Information.
4. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from Executing Transactions in BAM Financial Instruments during a period – not being a Closed Period – in which the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee has been prohibited from doing so by the Central Officer pursuant to paragraph 6.
5. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from Executing a Transaction in BAM Financial Instruments and within six months thereafter Executing another Transaction in BAM Financial Instruments, if the other Transaction is the opposite of the first Transaction or has the effect of undoing or limiting the risk of the first Transaction, with the proviso that this prohibition does not apply if the first Transaction is the exercise of an option granted by the Company and the second Transaction is the sale of the BAM Financial Instruments acquired by the exercise of the option, without prejudice, however, to the provisions of paragraph 8 under b.
6. The Central Officer may prohibit BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, BAM Executives, and Designated BAM Employees from Executing Transactions in BAM Financial Instruments during a period outside the Closed Period to be determined by the Central Officer.
7. The prohibition contained in paragraph 1 shall not apply to the Execution of Transactions in the discharge of a due and payable obligation existing at the time that the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee acquired Inside Information (e.g. an obligation to dispose of or acquire BAM Financial Instruments arising from an agreement concluded before the Inside Information was acquired).
8. In addition, the prohibition contained in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:
   1. the acceptance in connection with an employee participation plan of BAM Financial Instruments, if a consistent course of action is followed with regard to the conditions and periodicity of the plan;
   2. the exercise of options, the conversion of convertible bonds, or the exercise of warrants or similar rights to (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital in connection with an employee participation plan, on the expiry date of such right or within a period of five business days prior thereto, as well as the sale within that period of (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital acquired by the exercise of such rights, provided that in the latter case the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee has notified the Company in writing at least four months prior to the expiry date of its intention to sell or has granted the Company an irrevocable power of attorney;
   3. the acquisition of shares or depositary receipts for shares in the Company's capital as payment of dividend, other than in the form of optional dividend; and
   4. other transactions excluded by or under the law.
9. Paragraphs 7 and 8 shall apply equally to the prohibitions contained in paragraphs 3 to 5.
10. The prohibitions contained in paragraphs 1 through 5 and any possible exceptions thereto shall continue to have effect during a period of six months after the relevant BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee has ceased to occupy that capacity.

Article 5 Prohibitions against executing transactions in relation to Affiliated Financial Instruments

The provisions of Article 4 shall apply equally to Affiliated Financial Instruments.

Article 6 Prohibitions against executing transactions in relation to Other Financial Instruments

1. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from Executing Transactions in Other Financial Instruments, if they have been designated to that effect by the supervisory board in consultation with the managing board of the Company in accordance with paragraph 3 and every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee has been notified of the designation, irrespective of whether the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee makes use of Inside Information relating to the Other Financial Instruments in question.
2. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from Executing Transactions in Other Financial Instruments, if the Central Officer has so determined in accordance with paragraph 4 and has notified the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee thereof, irrespective of whether the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee thereby makes use of Inside Information relating to the Other Financial Instruments in question.
3. The supervisory board may determine in consultation with the managing board of the Company that a BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee may not Execute Transactions in certain Other Financial Instruments designated by the supervisory board in consultation with the managing board, if the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee is likely, through his or her position in the Company, to be able to make a better assessment of the state of affairs in the institution issuing the Other Financial Instruments than he would be able to on the basis of public information, such as, e.g. certain competitors of the Company.
4. The Central Officer may determine that a BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee may not Execute Transactions in Other Financial Instruments during a period specified by the Central Officer, if the Central Officer believes that the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee in question possesses or may possess Inside Information relating to those Other Financial Instruments or if the Central Officer believes that the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee in question may create the impression that he or she is violating the law if he or she were to Execute a Transaction in those Other Financial Instruments.
5. The prohibitions contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the Execution of Transactions in the discharge of a due and payable obligation existing at the time of the designation or determination referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 (e.g. an obligation to dispose of or acquire Other Financial Instruments arising from an agreement concluded before the designation or determination).
6. In addition, the prohibitions contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to:
   1. the acquisition of shares or depositary receipts for shares in the company which has issued the Other Financial Instruments, as payment of dividend, other than in the form of optional dividend; and
   2. other transactions excluded by or under the law.
7. The prohibitions contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall continue to have effect during a period of six months after the relevant BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, or Designated BAM Employee has ceased to occupy that capacity.

Article 7 Prohibition against disclosure; prohibition against making recommendations

1. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from disclosing Inside Information to a third party, unless the disclosure is made in the normal course of the exercise of his or her duties and the recipient of the Inside Information has an obligation of confidentiality, irrespective of whether this is based on law or regulation, provisions in articles of association, or an agreement.
2. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, BAM Executive, and Designated BAM Employee shall be prohibited from recommending to a third party the Execution of Transactions in Financial Instruments to which his or her Inside Information relates or from inciting a third party thereto.

Chapter III Notification obligations applicable to all BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, and BAM Executives (except for Article 8.7 that only applies for BAM Managing Directors and BAM Supervisory Directors)

Article 8 Notification obligations under the FMSA

1. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive shall, no later than on the fifth business day after the Transaction Date, notify the AFM of Transactions Executed for his or her own account in (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital or in financial instruments whose value is partly determined by the value of those (depositary receipts for) shares.
2. The notification obligation set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply to Transactions Executed or brought about by a financial firm permitted under the FMSA to manage private protfolios pursuant to a written mandate which provides that the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive, as principal, cannot exercise any influence on Transactions Executed or brought about by the financial firm pursuant to the mandate. Each BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, and BAM Executive is required to provide the Central Officer with a copy of the written mandate referred to in the previous sentence and to inform the Central Officer in writing of any amendment to this written mandate.
3. The notification referred to in paragraph 1 may be deferred until the moment that: (a) the Transactions Executed in the relevant calendar year by the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive for his or her own account have reached a total amount of EUR 5,000, or (b) the Transactions Executed in the relevant calendar year by the Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive for his or her own account and by Persons Affiliated with him or her for their own account have collectively reached a total amount of EUR 5,000.
4. If the BAM Managing Director, or BAM Supervisory Director has notified a change resulting from the relevant Tranmsaction in accordance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA he or she shall be deemed to have fulfilled the notification obligation set out in paragraph 1.
5. A BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive, may instruct the Central Officer to make the notification referred to in this Article to the AFM on his or her behalf. The instructions shall be given in writing. The Central Officer must receive the instructions before 13:00 on the business day prior to the final day for notification to the AFM. The instructions shall be accompanied by all details to be notified to the AFM. The BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive himself or herself shall at all times remain responsible for the notification to the AFM.
6. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, and BAM Executive shall notify the Central Officer without delay of any Transaction in BAM Financial Instruments or Affiliated Financial Instruments Executed by him or her.
7. Every BAM Managing Director and BAM Supervisory Director shall notify the Central Officer within two weeks after his appointment of his possession of Financial Instruments in Dutch listed companies that operate in the same area or related areas as the Company, including in any case companies that operate as subcontractor, advisor or supplier of the building, construction and mechanical and electrical industry. Each BAM Managing Director and BAM Supervisory Director shall notify the Central Officer within one month after each quarter, of any changes in his holding of the Financial Instruments mentioned in the sentence before.
8. Paragraph 7 shall not apply to possession of and Transactions in Financial Instruments relating to investment funds, nor to Transactions Executed for the account of the BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive by a financial firm as referred to in paragraph 2.
9. Every BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive must inform the Persons Affiliated with him or her of their notification obligation as set out in Article 20 of the BAM Regulations.

Notification obligations applicable to all BAM Managing Directors and BAM Supervisory Directors

Article 9 Notification obligations under the FMSA

1. Every BAM Managing Director and BAM Supervisory Director shall within two weeks of his or her appointment as BAM Managing Director or BAM Supervisory Director notify the AFM of the number of Shares and Votes held by him or her in the Company and the Affiliated Issuing Institutions.
2. If another limited liability company under Dutch law becomes an Affiliated Issuing Institution, BAM Managing Directors and BAM Supervisory Directors shall notify the AFM without delay of the number of Shares and Votes in the Affiliated Issuing Institution held by him or her. The obligation set out in the previous sentence shall be fulfilled if a notification in that matter has been made pursuant to other applicable provisions of the FMSA.
3. Every BAM Managing Director or BAM Supervisory Director shall notify the AFM without delay of any change in the number of Shares and Votes held by him or her in the Company and the Affiliated Issuing Institutions. The obligation set out in the previous sentence shall be fulfilled if a notification in that matter has been made pursuant to other applicable provisions of Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA.
4. A BAM Managing Director or BAM Supervisory Director may instruct the Central Officer to make the notification referred to in this Article on his or her behalf. The instructions shall be given in writing. The Central Officer must receive the instructions before 13:00 on the business day prior to the final day for notification to the AFM. The instructions shall be accompanied by all details to be notified to the AFM. The BAM Managing Director, BAM Supervisory Director, or BAM Executive himself or herself shall at all times remain responsible for the notification to the AFM.

Chapter V Specific provisions with regard to BAM Managing Directors

Article 10 Freedom of investment; long-term investment in BAM Financial Instrument s

1. Unless the provisions in and under the BAM Regulations provide otherwise, Managing Directors shall have freedom of investment in shares and certain other financial instruments.
2. Any holding of BAM Financial Instruments by a BAM Managing Director shall always be for long-term investment purposes.

Article 11 Prohibitions with regard to options

1. The Company may grant options on BAM Financial Instruments to BAM Managing Directors in accordance with option schemes approved by the Company's general meeting of shareholders. Every BAM Managing Director shall accept and exercise such options in accordance with the applicable regulations.
2. BAM Managing Directors shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on BAM Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Company as part of an option plan as referred to in paragraph 1.
3. BAM Managing Directors shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on Affiliated Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Affiliated Issuing Institution as part of an option plan as referred to in paragraph 1.

Chapter VI Specific provisions with regard to BAM Supervisory Directors

Article 12 Freedom of investment; long-term investment in BAM Financial Instruments

1. Unless the provisions in and under the BAM Regulations provide otherwise, Supervisory Directors shall have freedom of investment in shares and certain other financial instruments.
2. Any holding of BAM Financial Instruments by a BAM Supervisory Director shall always be for long-term investment purposes.

Article 13 Prohibitions with regard to options

1. The Company shall not grant options on BAM Financial Instruments to BAM Supervisory Directors. A BAM Supervisory Director who received options as a BAM Managing Director before he became a BAM Supervisory Director shall exercise these in accordance with the applicable regulations.
2. BAM Supervisory Directors shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on BAM Financial Instruments.
3. BAM Supervisory Directors shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on Affiliated Financial Instruments.

Chapter VII Specific provisions with regard to BAM Executives

Article 14 Prohibitions with regard to options

1. The Company may grant options on BAM Financial Instruments to BAM Executives. Every BAM Executive shall accept and exercise such options in accordance with the applicable regulations.
2. BAM Executive shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on BAM Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Company as part of the regulations referred to in paragraph 1.
3. BAM Executives shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on Affiliated Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Affiliated Issuing Institution as part of an option plan.

Article 15 Notification obligations under the FMSA

BAM Executives shall be subject to all applicable provisions of Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA in relation to Shares and Votes held by them, including Shares and Votes in the Company and Affiliated Issuing Institutions, and any changes in respect thereof.

Chapter VIII Specific provisions with regard to Designated BAM Employees

Article 16 Prohibitions with regard to options

1. The Company may grant options on BAM Financial Instruments to Designated BAM Employees. Every Designated BAM Employee shall accept and exercise such options in accordance with the applicable regulations.
2. Designated BAM Employees shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on BAM Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Company as part of the regulations referred to in paragraph 1.
3. Designated BAM Employees shall be prohibited from buying or writing options on Affiliated Financial Instruments, with the exception of options granted by the Affiliated Issuing Institution as part of an option plan.

Article 17 Notification obligations under the FMSA

Designated BAM Employees shall be subject to all applicable provisions of Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA in relation to Shares and Votes held by them, including Shares and Votes in the Company and Affiliated Issuing Institutions, and any changes in respect thereof.

Chapter IX Other BAM Employees

Article 18 Prohibition against effecting transactions, disclosure and making recommendations

1. Other BAM Employees who know or should reasonably suspect that they possess Inside Information shall be prohibited from making use of that Inside Information by Executing a Transaction in Financial Instruments including BAM Financial Instruments and Affiliated Financial Instruments, to which their Inside Information relates.
2. Other BAM Employees who know or should reasonably suspect that they possess Inside Information shall be prohibited from making use of that Inside Information by trying to Execute a Transaction in Financial Instruments including BAM Financial Instruments and Affiliated Financial Instruments, to which their Inside Information relates.
3. Other BAM Employees who know or should reasonably suspect that they possess Inside Information shall be prohibited from disclosing Inside Information to a third party, unless the disclosure is made in the normal course of the exercise of their employment, profession or duties and the recipient of the Inside Information has an obligation of confidentiality, irrespective of whether this is based on law or regulation, provisions in the articles of association, or an agreement.
4. Other BAM Employees who know or should reasonably suspect that they possess Inside Information shall be prohibited from recommending to a third party the Execution of Transactions in Financial Instruments, including BAM Financial Instruments and Affiliated Financial Instruments, to which their Inside Information relates or from inciting a third party thereto.
5. The prohibition contained in paragraph 1 shall not apply to the Execution of Transactions in the discharge of a due and payable obligation existing at the time that the Other BAM Employee acquired Inside Information (e.g. an obligation to dispose of or acquire Financial Instruments arising from an agreement concluded before the Inside Information was acquired).
6. In addition, the prohibition contained in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:
   1. the acceptance in connection with an employee participation plan of Financial Instruments, if a consistent course of action is followed with regard to the conditions and periodicity of the plan;
   2. the exercise of options, the conversion of convertible bonds, or the exercise of warrants or similar rights to (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital in connection with an employee participation plan, on the expiry date of such right or within a period of five business days prior thereto, as well as the sale within that period of (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital acquired by the exercise of such rights, provided that in that case the Other BAM Employee has notified the Company in writing at least four months prior to the expiry date of its intention to sell or has granted the Company an irrevocable power of attorney;
   3. the acquisition of shares or depositary receipts for shares in the Company's capital as payment of dividend, other than in the form of optional dividend; and
   4. other transactions excluded by or under the law.

Article 19 Notification obligations

Other BAM Employees shall be subject to all applicable provisions of Chapter 5.3 of the FMSA in relation to Shares and Votes held by them, including Shares and Votes in the Company and Affiliated Issuing Institutions, and any changes in respect thereof.

Chapter X Affiliated Persons

Article 20 Notification obligation

1. Every Affiliated Person shall, no later than on the fifth business day after the Transaction Date, notify the AFM of Transactions Executed for his or her own account in (depositary receipts for) shares in the Company's capital or in Financial Instruments whose value is partly determined by the value of those (depositary receipts for) shares.
2. The notification obligation set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply to Transactions Executed by a financial firm permitted under the FMSA to manage private protfolios pursuant to a written mandate which provides that the Affiliated Person, as principal, may not exercise any influence on Transactions Executed pursuant to the mandate by the financial firm.
3. Affiliated Persons shall be obliged themselves to make the notification to the AFM, as referred to in paragraph 1, unless they have instructed the Central Officer before 13:00 on the business day prior to the final day for notification, to make the notification referred to in paragraph 1 on their behalf. The instructions must be given in writing and set out all details to be notified to the AFM. The Affiliated Person himself or herself shall at all times remain responsible for the notification to the AFM.

Chapter XI Other provisions

XI. 1 Central Officer

Article 21 Appointment and dismissal

The managing board of the Company shall designate a Central Officer. The managing board of the Company may at any time revoke the designation of the Central Officer as such.

Article 22 Contact details

The Company's managing board shall announce who the Central Officer is and where he or she can be reached.

Article 23 Duties and powers

The Central Officer shall have the duties and powers granted to him or her in the BAM Regulations. The Company's managing board may grant additional duties and powers to the Central Officer.

Article 24 Advice; dispensation

1. The Central Officer may at a BAM Employee's request render advice on whether a prohibition or obligation contained in the BAM Regulations applies to that BAM Employee. If a BAM Employee is in doubt as to whether a prohibition or obligation contained in the BAM Regulations applies to that BAM Employee, it is advisable that he or she should contact the Central Officer and seek his or her advice.
2. The Central Officer may in exceptional circumstances and in consultation with the chairman of the Company's managing board grant dispensation from prohibitions or obligations contained in the BAM Regulations.

Article 25 Deputy(ies)

The Central Officer may, in consultation with the Company's managing board, appoint one or more deputies, whether or not with offices in other countries, to carry out such duties and powers for the benefit of BAM Employees in other countries as the Central Officer shall determine in consultation with the Company's managing board. The Central Officer may, in consultation with the Company's managing board, appoint persons to replace him or her in his absence.
The Company's managing board shall announce who the appointed deputies are as well as where these deputies are to be contacted.

Article 26 Annual reporting

The Central Officer shall annually after the end of the Company's financial year report to the chairman of the Company's managing board on the manner in which he has exercised his duties and powers.

XI. 2 Register

Article 27 Contents

The Company shall keep a Register setting out:

1. the names of the BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, BAM Executives, Designated BAM Employees, as well as all other persons engaged by the Company who may possess Inside Information on a regular or incidental basis and the names of the offices of external advisers who may possess Inside Information on a regular or incidental basis;
2. the reason for including in the Register the other persons referred to under a.;
3. the circumstance that and the moment from which the person no longer has access to Inside Information;
4. all notifications to the Central Officer pursuant to the BAM Regulations;
5. all instructions to the Central Officer to make a notification as referred to in the BAM Regulations;
6. all requests to the Central Officer to grant dispensation and all dispensations as referred to in Article 24 paragraph 2 granted by the Central Officer;
7. copies of the written mandates received by the Central Officer pursuant to Article 8 paragraph 2.

The Register and all alterations thereof shall be dated.

Article 28 Responsibility; specified purpose

The Company shall be responsible for the processing of Personal Data (to be) included in the Register. Personal Data shall only be processed for the purposes specified in the recitals of the BAM Regulations.

Article 29 Provision to third parties

Personal Data from the Register may be provided to the AFM, in the event this is necessary for the fulfilment of a statutory obligation or if a weighty interest of the Company requires this.

Article 30 Custody; custody period ¹

The Register shall be kept by the Central Officer. The Personal Data referred to in article 27 under a. up to and including c. will be kept for a period of at least 5 years after the date of recording in the Register or alteration thereof. The Central Officer shall remove other Personal Data from the Register no later than two years after the person in question has ceased to be involved in the Company. If the processing of Personal Data referred to in article 27 is necessary for the resolution of a dispute or relates to property rights and obligations of the Company, they will not be removed. In the event that the processing of the Personal Data is necessary for the resolution of a dispute, the Central Officer shall remove the Data as soon as it ceases to be relevant to the dispute. If the Personal Data relates to property rights and obligations of the Company, the Central Officer shall remove it seven years after the date of its recording.

1 The terms referred to in this article follow from regulations on the basis of the FMSA, the Act on the Protection of Personal Data and the Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek).

Article 31 Inspection

Any BAM Employee with regard to whom the Register contains Personal Data, shall have the right to inspect this data. He or she may apply to the Central Officer to that effect. If Personal Data is processed with regard to that BAM Employee, the Central Officer shall within four weeks provide him or her with a full written summary thereof.

Article 32 Adjustment of data

Any BAM Employee with regard to whom the Register contains Personal Data, shall have the right to request the Company to correct, add to, remove or block Personal Data in the Register relating to him or her, if this data is factually incorrect or, given the purpose of inclusion in the Register, is irrelevant. Such request shall be directed to the Central Officer. The Central Officer shall inform the party in question of his or her decision within four weeks of receiving the request. A decision to decline the request shall set out the reasons for the decision. In the event the request is granted, the Central Officer shall as soon as possible arrange for the relevant correction, addition, removal or blocking of the Personal Data. The Central Officer shall as soon as possible notify the AFM of a correction, addition, removal or blocking of Personal Data insofar as this data had been provided to the AFM. The Central Officer shall immediately adjust the data included in the Register if:

1. the reason for listing a person in the Register changes;
2. a person should need to be added to the Register; and
3. a person included in the Register no longer has access to Inside Information.

Article 33 Security

The Register shall be subject to adequate security. The electronic version of the Register will technically just be accessible for the Central Officer and (the secretary to) the chairman of the Company’s managing board. Hard copies of the Register will be kept in a sufficient safe. Only the Central Officer, the chairman of the managing board and the chairman of the supervisory board shall have the right to inspect the Register if their duties and the purposes specified in the recitals of the BAM Regulations require this.

XI.3 Forms

Article 34 Forms

All notifications referred to in the BAM Regulations shall be made by using [the] forms [adopted by the AFM]. The Central Officer shall make the forms available. The questions set out in the forms shall be answered in a complete and truthful manner.

XI.4 Designations and notifications

Article 35 Designated BAM Employees

The Central Officer shall designate BAM Employees who have access to Inside Information through the exercise of their employment, profession or duties as Designated BAM Employees, and inform them in writing of that designation.

Article 36 Closed Periods

The Company's managing board shall, in a timely manner before the beginning of each financial year, announce which periods in that financial year shall be deemed Closed Periods. Changes or additions shall be announced in the same manner in the course of the financial year.

Article 37 Affiliated Issuing Institutions

It will be notified via the intranet of the Company which limited liability companies under Dutch law, whose (depositary receipts for) shares or transferable securities similar to depository receipts for shares, have been admitted to trading on a regulated market, shall be regarded as Affiliated Issuing Institutions for the purpose of the BAM Regulations. This notification shall take place immediately upon the BAM Regulations entering into force, and subsequently upon any change in the Affiliated Issuing Institutions.

Article 38 Notification of prohibitions

The Company shall notify the prohibitions of Part 5.4.2 (Rules to Prevent Market Abuse) of the FMSA [and the sanctions for violation of those prohibitions] to the BAM Managing Director, the BAM Supervisory Director, the BAM Executive and the Designated BAM Employee, as well as all other persons engaged by the Company who may possess Inside Information on a regular or incidental basis. A summary of the sanctions for violation of the prohibitions of Part 5.4.2 (Rules to Prevent Market Abuse) of the FMSA has been attached to the BAM Regulations as an Annex.

XI. 5 Final provisions

Article 39 Sanctions

In the event of a violation of any provision of the BAM Regulations, the Company or, as the case may be, the employer reserves the right to impose any sanctions which he is entitled to impose pursuant to the law and/or the (employment) agreement with the person in question. Such sanctions shall include termination of the (employment) agreement with the person involved, by way of summary dismissal or otherwise.

Article 40 Circumstances not covered by the BAM Regulations

The Company's managing board shall have the right to take decisions in any circumstances not covered by the BAM Regulations, provided that it does so in accordance with any applicable statutory provisions.

Article 41 Entry into force

1. The BAM Regulations shall be considered to have entered into force on 21 January 2008.
2. The BAM Regulations shall be considered to have replaced the BAM Regulations 2005 on the holding of and effecting transactions in securities with effect from 21 January 2008.

Article 42 Amendments

Provisions of the BAM Regulations may be amended and supplemented by a resolution of the Company's managing board. Such resolution shall require the approval of the Company's supervisory board. Amendments and additions shall enter into force from the moment that they are announced, unless the announcement specifies a later date.

Article 43 Governing law

The BAM Regulations shall be governed by Dutch law.

Annex

Definitions
In the BAM Regulations the following capitalised terms shall have the following meanings:

 

Affiliated Issuing Institution

A limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) under Dutch law whose (depositary receipts for) shares or transferable securities equivalent to depository receipts for shares have been admitted to trading on a regulated market in the Netherlands or in another Member State:

1. which belongs to the same group as the Company or in which the Company holds a participating interest as referred to in Article 2:24c Dutch Civil Code, and whose turnover as most recently determined constitutes at least 10% of the Company’s consolidated turnover; or
2. which provides directly or indirectly more than 25% of the Company’s capital.

Affiliated Persons

1. Spouses, registered partners or life partners of, or other persons cohabitating in a similar way with, a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, or a BAM Executive;
2. Children of a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, or a BAM Executive, who fall under his or her authority or who are under legal restraint and for whom a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, or a BAM Executive was appointed as guardian;
3. Other relatives related by blood or otherwise of a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director or a BAM Executive, who have on the Transaction Date shared a joint household with him or her for at least one year;
4. Legal entities, trusts as referred to in Section 1 under c. of the Act on the Supervision of Trust Offices (Wet toezicht trustkantoren) or partnerships
   1. whose executive responsibility is vested in a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, or a BAM Executive, or in a person as referred to in paragraphs a. to c.
   2. which are controlled by a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, a BAM Executive or a person as referred to in paragraphs a. to c.,
   3. wich have been created for the benefit of a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, a BAM Executive or a person as referred to in paragraphs a. to c., or
   4. the economic interests of which are essentially equivalent to those of a BAM Managing Director, a BAM Supervisory Director, a BAM Executive or a person as referred to in paragraphs a. to c.

Affiliated Financial Instruments

Financial Instruments issued by or relating to an Affiliated Issuing Entity

AFM

The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets

Central Officer

The officer referred to in Article 21 of the BAM Regulations

Closed Period

1. the period of two months prior to the first publication of the Company's annual accounts;
2. the period of 21 days prior to the first publication of the quarterly or semi-annual figures of the Company;
3. the period of one month prior the first publication of a prospectus for the issuance of shares, unless the Company can prove that the decision to issue shares was taken on a shorter term then one month in which case the shorter term applies

Company

Koninklijke BAM Groep N.V., with its corporate seat in Bunnik

Derivatives on Commodities

Derivatives on Commodities are Financial Instruments of which the value is also determined by the value of the derivatives to which they relate

Designated BAM Employees

BAM Employees – not being BAM Executives – who have access to Inside Information through the exercise of their employment, profession or duties and have been designated as such by the Central Officer

Dutch Corporate Governance Code

The code of conduct designated in the general administrative order referred to in Section 2:391 subsection 4 Dutch Civil Code

Execution of Transactions

The sale or purchase of Financial Instruments or the execution of any other legal act aimed at acquiring or disposing of Financial Instruments, either directly or indirectly and for one's own account or the account of others

Inside Information

1. with regard to Financial Instruments, not being Derivatives on Commodities, Inside Information is knowledge of information of a precise nature which has not been made public, relating, directly or indirectly, to the legal entity, company, or institution to which the Financial Instruments relate or to the trade in those Financial Instruments and which, if it were made public, would have a significant influence on the price of the Financial Instruments or on related derivative Financial Instruments;
2. with regard to Derivatives on Commodities, Inside Information is knowledge of information of a precise nature which has not been made public, relating, directly or indirectly, to one or more of those Derivatives on Commodities, which information investors in those Derivatives on Commodities would expect to be made public in accordance with accepted market practices on the regulated markets where those Derivatives on Commodities are traded. Information which investors would expect to be made public would be information of such a nature that it:
   1. is routinely made available to investors in those Financial Instruments; or
   2. should be made publicly available in line with legal requirements applicable to those regulated markets or rules, agreements or accepted practices on those regulated markets

Member State

A state that is a member of European Union and a state not being a member of the European Union, which is a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

OOther Financial Instruments

Financial Instruments (except for BAM Financial Instruments and Affiliated Financial Instruments), to the extent that they have been designated by the Company’s supervisory board in consultation with its managing board or have been determined by the Central Officer in accordance with the BAM Regulations

Other BAM Employees

BAM Employees, not being BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, BAM Executives, or Designated BAM Employees

Personal Data

Data relating to an identifiable natural person

Register

The register referred to in Article 27 of the BAM Regulations

Financial Instruments

1. (depositary receipts for) shares; or
2. other Financial Instruments within the meaning of Section 1:1 FMSA in conjunction with Section 5:53 subsection 3 FMSA
   1. which have been admitted to trading on a regulated market in the Netherlands or for which a request for admission to trading on such a market has been made, or
   2. which have been admitted to trading on a regulated market in another Member State, or for which a request for admission to trading on such a market has been made, or
   3. which have been admitted to trading on a securities exchange established and officially authorised in a State which is not a Member State, or for which a request for admission to trading has been made; or
3. financial instruments not being financial instruments as referred to in a. or b. whose value is partly determined by the value of the financial instruments referred to in a. or b.; or
4. financial instruments which have been admitted to an financial instruments market, not being a regulated market whose operator has been recognised as referred to in Section 5:26 subsection 1 FMSA

FMSA

Financial Markets Supervision Act

Shares

1. transferable shares as referred to in Section 2:79a paragraph 1 Dutch Civil Code;
2. depositary receipts for shares, or other transferable securities comparable with depository receipts for shares;
3. other transferable Financial Instruments – not being options as referred to in d. – by which the shares or securities referred to in a. or b. can be acquired;
4. options to acquire the shares or securities referred to in a. and b.

Transaction Date

The date on which a Transaction is Executed

Votes

Votes which may be cast on Shares, including votes pursuant to an agreement to acquire votes

BAM Employees

Any person employed by, or in any other relationship of authority to, the Company or a subsidiary or group company of the Company, irrespective of the length of the employment, as well as BAM Managing Directors, BAM Supervisory Directors, and BAM Executives, and in any case including Designated BAM Employees, and Other Employees

BAM Executives

BAM Employees, not being BAM Managing Directors, or BAM Supervisory Directors, who have an executive position and on that basis have the power to take decisions which have an effect on the future development and prospects of the Company and who may regularly have access to Inside Information and supervisory board members of group companies of the Company

BAM Managing Directors

The members of the corporate body charged with the Company's management

BAM Regulations

The BAM Regulations on the holding of and effecting transactions in securities

BAM Securities

Financial Instruments issued by or relating to the Company

BAM Supervisory Directors

The members of the corporate body charged with the supervision of the Company's management

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