EANS-General Meeting: BWT Aktiengesellschaft / Invitation to the General Meeting

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BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, 5310 Mondsee, Austria
Commercial Register no. FN 96162 s, ISIN AT0000737705

Invitation The shareholders of our Company shall hereby be invited to
the 23rd Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11.00 a.m.
in the premises of Österreichische Kontrollbank AG, "Reitersaal",
Strauchgasse 1 - 3, 1010 Vienna

Agenda: 1. Presentation of the approved financial statements 2012
including the notes and the management report, the report of the
Supervisory Board, the corporate governance report as well as
presentation of the approved consolidated financial statements 2012
and the consolidated management report. 2. Resolution on dividend
distribution. 3. Resolution on the formal approval of the acts of the
members of the Management Board for the business year 2012. 4.
Resolution on the formal approval of the acts of the members of the
Supervisory Board for the business year 2012. 5. Resolution on the
remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board. 6. Appointment
of the auditor for the business year 2013. 7. Resolution on the
authorization of the Board regarding an authorized capital and the
confirmation of the statute in § 4, para 3) that this should remain
in the future as follows: "§ 4 The Board is authorized to increase,
within 5 years of entry of such decision in the company register the
share capital of the Company with the consent of the Supervisory
Board by up to EUR 8,916,500, - through the issuance of 8.916,500
million shares of new bearer shares with a minimum issue price of
100% in cash or in kind to EUR 26,750,000, - with or without the
exclusion of subscription rights for existing shareholders. The Board
may exercise this authorization in whole or in multiple steps and set
the price and the terms of issue in consultation with the Supervisory
Board. In particular, the Board is authorized to decide in terms of
the total authorized capital with the approval of the Supervisory
Board on the exclusion of subscription rights. The Supervisory Board
is authorized to change the Articles of Association resulting from
the issuance of shares from authorized capital."

Documentation for the Annual General Meeting As of 2 May 2013 latest,
the documentation, including the financial statements and the notes,
the management report, the report of the Supervisory Board, the
corporate governance report, the consolidated financial statements
and the consolidated management report, as well as the proposed
resolutions of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board, and
report of the board regarding topic 7 are presented in the premises
of the Company at Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, 5310 Mondsee in accordance
with section 108, paragraph 3 of the Stock Corporation Act. As of 2
May 2013 latest, such documentation, the complete wording of this
invitation as well as the form for granting or revoking a proxy for
the Annual General Meeting (section 114 of the Stock Corpora-tion
Act) shall be available free of charge on the Company's website at ht
tp://www.bwt-group.com/en/investor/corporate-governance/Pages/General
-meeting.aspx. Such information shall be permanently available on the
website one month after the Annual General Meeting.

Right to participate - record date and safe custody receipt The right
to participate in the Annual General Meeting and to exercise the
shareholders' rights to be asserted in connection with the Annual
General Meeting is in accordance with the shareholding on the record
date, i.e. at the end of the 10th day before the date of the Annual
General Meeting, in this case midnight CET 13 May 2013. Only persons
who are shareholders on the record date and provide evidence therefor
shall be entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. In
case of deposited bearer shares, a safe custody receipt in accordance
with section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act shall suf-fice as
evidence for the capacity as a shareholder, to be received by the
Company (c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH, Waldgasse 9, A 2443
Stotzing (Burgenland)) no later than 17 May 2013.

The safe custody receipt must contain the following information: 1.
the issuer, stating the name (company) and address or a standard code
used in communications between credit institutions; 2. the
shareholder, stating the name (company) and address; for natural
persons, his/her date of birth; for legal persons, the register and
number under which the legal person is registered in its country of
origin, where applicable; 3. the number of the depository, or another
description; 4. the number, and where necessary, the nominal amount
of the shares of the holder, as well as a description of the class of
share, if various classes of shares are held, or the International
Securities Identification Number [ISIN]; 5. the time or period of
time to which the safe custody receipt refers. The safe custody
receipt must be issued by the depositary bank headquartered in a
state which must be either a member state of the European Economic
Area or a full member of the OECD and must include at least the data
stipulated by section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act. Information
concerning the entity issuing the receipt: Name/corporate name and
address. Information concerning the shareholder: Name/corporate name,
address, date of birth for natural persons, and where applicable
commercial register and commercial registration number. Information
concerning the shares: Number of shares held by shareholder, safe
custody number, inter alia any other relevant description, and date
in relation to which the safe custody receipt has been issued. The
safe custody receipt shall be accepted in German and in English and
must be in writing (signature/company signature).

The transmission of the safe custody receipts via an internationally
used specifically secured communication network of the banks shall be
excluded in accordance with sec-tion 262, paragraph 20 of the Stock
Corporation Act. Therefore, the safe custody re-ceipts shall be sent
exclusively via mail to HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH, Waldgasse 9, A
2443 Stotzing (Burgenland), Austria, via fax at +43 (0) 1 - 8900 500
- 84 or via e-mail to anmeldung.bwt@hauptversammlung.at. An
electronic transmission (e-mail) shall only be admissible if a
qualified electronic signature in accordance with section 4 of the
Signature Act is used.

We would like to point out that the shareholders will not be barred
once they register for the Annual General Meeting or sent a safe
custody receipt, i.e. the shareholders may continue to freely dispose
of their shares, even after they register for the Annual General
Meeting or sent a safe custody receipt.

Instructions on the rights of the shareholders in accordance with
section 106, no. 5 of the Stock Corporation Act In accordance with
section 109 of the Stock Corporation Act shareholders, whose shares
together account for 5 % of the registered capital, may request in
writing that items are added to the agenda and announced. A proposed
resolution and reasons therefor must accompany each item on the
agenda applied for. The applicants must hold the shares for at least
three months before filing their application. Such application in
writing must be received by the Company no later than on the 21st day
before the Annual General Meeting, i.e. 2 May 2013, exclusively at
the address: BWT Aktiengesellschaft, Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, A-5310
Mondsee, Austria. An electronic transmission (e-mail) shall only be
admissible if a qualified electronic signature in accordance with
section 4 of the Signature Act is used; for this purpose, the
exclusive e-mail address to be used is:
hauptversammlung@bwt-group.com.

In accordance with section 110 of the Stock Corporation Act,
shareholders whose shares together account for 1 % of the registered
capital may propose resolutions in writing regarding each item on the
agenda to the Company and request that such proposals are made
available on the website of the Company together with the names of
the relevant shareholders, the accompanying reasons and a statement
of the Manage-ment Board or the Supervisory Board, if any. In case of
a proposal for the election of a Supervisory Board member, the
statement of the proposed person in accordance with section 87,
paragraph 2 of the Stock Corporation Act shall replace the reasons.
Such application in writing must be received by the Company no later
than on the 7th working day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e.
13 May 2013, exclusively at the address: BWT Aktiengesellschaft,
Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria, via fax +43 (0) 6232
5011 1191 or via e-mail: hauptversammlung@bwt-group.com.

Shareholders' rights in accordance with sections 109 and 110 of the
Stock Corporation Act may only be exercised if the capacity as
shareholder is evidenced. For deposited bearer shares, the
presentation of a safe custody receipt shall suffice as evidence in
accordance with section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act, which may
not be older than seven days at the time it is presented to the
Company. As to the other requirements for the safe custody receipt
reference is made to the statements above. In case of interim
certificates, the Company shall check whether the shareholder is
entered in the register of shareholders as of the record date. In
accordance with section 118 of the Stock Corporation Act and upon
request, each shareholder is entitled to receive information on the
matters of the Company during the Annual General Meeting, to the
extent such information is necessary for the proper evaluation of an
item on the agenda. The duty to furnish information covers the legal
and business relationships of the Company with an affiliated company.
The information may be withheld to the extent it may cause a material
negative impact to the Company or affiliated company according to
reasonable entrepreneurial evaluation or in case dis-closure of such
information is illegal. Information may also be withheld if such
informa-tion was continuously available on the Company's website in a
question and answer format for at least seven days before the
beginning of the Annual General Meeting. The reason for withholding
the information must be stated.

In accordance with section 119 of the Stock Corporation Act, each
shareholder, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board shall be
entitled to file applications for each item on the agenda in the
Annual General Meeting. No resolution may be passed on a negotiation
topic that was not properly announced as an item on the agenda. No
announcement is required for resolutions on an application for the
convention of a Gen-eral Meeting made in the meeting and for
negotiations without resolution. A proposed resolution announced on
the website of the Company in accordance with section 110 of the
Stock Corporation Act shall only be put to the vote if such proposal
is reiterated in the Meeting as a application. Please visit our
Company's website at http://www.bwt-group.com/en/investor/corporate-g
overnance/Pages/General-meeting.aspx for further information on
shareholders' rights in accordance with sections 109, 110, 118 and
119 of the Stock Corporation Act.

Representation by proxy Each shareholder entitled to participate in
the Annual General Meeting has the right to appoint an individual or
a legal entity as proxy, who participates in the Annual General
Meeting in the name of the shareholder and who has the same rights as
the shareholder. The Company or a member of the Management Board and
the Supervisory Board may only exercise the voting right in the
capacity of proxy to the extent the shareholders gave explicit
instructions concerning the individual items on the agenda.

The proxy must be granted in writing; a revocation must also be in
writing. The form for the granting of the proxy and/or its revocation
is available free of charge on the website of the Company at http://w
ww.bwt-group.com/en/investor/corporate-governance/Pages/General-meeti
ng.aspx sent to you upon request. The proxy and/or its revocation may
either be delivered during the General Meeting or sent to the Company
(c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH, Waldgasse 9, A 2443 Stotzing
(Burgenland), via fax +43 (0) 1 8900 500 - 84 or e-mail to
anmeldung.bwt@hauptversammlung.at (scanned attachment TIF, PDF, or
else), whereas when using such forms of communication, the proxy
and/or its revocation must be received by the Company no later than
22 May 2013, 1 p.m. CET.

In case a shareholder granted proxy to his/her depositary bank, it
shall suffice if such bank declares that it has proxy, in addition to
the presentation of the safe custody re-ceipt. The transmission of
such statement via an internationally used specifically se-cured
communication network of the banks shall be excluded in accordance
with sec-tion 262, paragraph 20 of the Stock Corporation Act; the
transmission shall be effected via the means of communication
stipulated above in connection with the safe custody receipt.

In accordance with section 106 no. 9 of the Stock Corporation Act and
section 83, paragraph 2, no. 1 of the Stock Exchange Act, we would
like to announce that the Company's registered capital is divided
into 17,833,500 no-par shares made out to the bearer.

Each no-par share holds one vote. Per April 12, 2013 BWT
Aktiengesellschaft holds 1,072,898 own shares. The Company derives no
rights therefrom. Therefore, per April 12, 2013, the total number of
participating and voting shares is 16,760,602.

Mondsee, April 2013

The Management Board

Further inquiry note:
BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Mag. Ralf Burchert
ralf.burchert@bwt-group.com
Tel.: 06232/5011-1113

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issuer: BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Walter-Simmer-Str. 4
A-5310 Mondsee
phone: 06232/5011-0
FAX: 06232/4058
mail: office@bwt.at
WWW: www.bwt-group.com
sector: Water Supply
ISIN: AT0000737705
indexes: Standard Market Continuous
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English