11. Annual General Meeting: Clariant shareholders vote in favor of all resolutios

They granted, among other things, discharge to the Board of Directors and the Board of Management and approved, instead of payment of a dividend, a repayment of the nominal value of CHF 0.25 of each registered share. The share capital of CHF 1,093,260,000 will therefore be reduced by CHF 57,540,000 to CHF 1,035,720,000, and the nominal value of each registered share will be reduced from CHF 4.75 by CHF 0.25 to CHF 4.50. The amount of CHF 0.25 in place of a dividend is expected to be paid to the shareholders in cash by the end of June 2006 after expiration of the legally prescribed notice to obligees. The available earnings to be carried forward of CHF 229,550,139 will be appropriated to the free reserves.

President Robert Raeber and Prof. Dieter Seebach have retired from the Board of Directors due to having reached the statutory age limit. The US-born Peter Chen, who is a Full Professor of Physical-Organic Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, was newly elected for a four-year term. At their subsequent, duly constituted meeting, the Board of Directors named former Chief Executive Officer Roland Lösser, who is already a member of the Board of Directors, as its new President. As announced in November 2005, his function as head of the Company will be assumed immediately by the Swedish Jan Secher, who has been a member of the Board of Management of Clariant since the beginning of the year.

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