Director/PDMR Shareholding

GENERAL ELECTRIC
                  

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging
Managerial Responsibility and Connected Persons

Please accept this notification by General Electric Company ('GE') as required
by DR 3.1.4R(1) of the UK Disclosure Rules.

Effective September 21, 2005, the following GE insider transaction became
effective:

An Executive Officer, Philip D. Ameen, exercised 16,500 options. The securities
were converted on a 1-for-1 basis at a price of $14.73 per option. This was a
cashless stock option exercise, therefore in a same day sale, 16,500 common
shares of GE were sold at $33.52 in the open market.

A Form 4 disclosing the transaction described above was filed with the SEC on
September 22, 2005.

Submitted on behalf of GE by Eliza W. Fraser, Associate Corporate Counsel, Tel:
203-373-2442