Foreign-Held Shares

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
25 March 2002

BAE SYSTEMS - Level of Foreign-held Shares


BAE SYSTEMS announces that at 22 March 2002 the register of Foreign-held shares 
maintained pursuant to Article 43 of the Company's Articles of Association 
indicated that 1,492,241,796 shares representing 48.88% of the issued ordinary 
share capital of the Company were foreign-held shares compared to the Aggregate 
Foreign Shareholding Restriction limit of 49.5%.




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