Rule 8.3 - BHP BILLITON PLC
FORM 8.3
DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE
(Rule 8.3 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers)
1. KEY INFORMATION
Name of person dealing BARCLAYS PLC
(Note 1)
Company dealt in BHP BILLITON PLC
Class of relevant security USD0.50
to which the dealings being
disclosed relate (Note 2)
Date of dealing 26 June 2008
2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE
(a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant
security dealt in (Note 3)
Long Short
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant 106,234,985 4.81% 2,707,638 0.12%
securities
(2) Derivatives 2,299,812 0.10% 6,209,907 0.28%
(other than
options)
(3) Options and 502,700 0.02% 751,000 0.03%
agreements to
purchase/sell
Total 109,037,497 4.94% 9,668,545 0.44%
(b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other
than the class dealt in (Note 3)
Class of Long Short
relevant
security:
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant
securities
(2) Derivatives
(other than
options)
(3) Options and
agreements to
purchase/sell
Total
(c) Rights to subscribe (Note 3)
Class of relevant security: Details
3. DEALINGS (Note 4)
(a) Purchases and sales
Purchase/sale Number of Price per unit
Securities (GBP)
Purchase 900 18.35
Purchase 241 18.36
Purchase 2,308 18.37
Purchase 707 18.35
Purchase 744 18.35
Purchase 600 18.35
Purchase 461 18.29
Purchase 270 18.38
Purchase 289 18.34
Purchase 89 18.4
Purchase 692 18.36
Purchase 125 18.32
Purchase 681 18.29
Purchase 318 18.33
Purchase 462 18.36
Purchase 1,384 18.4
Purchase 946 18.33
Purchase 1,400 18.34
Purchase 150 18.37
Purchase 219 18.31
Purchase 388 18.32
Purchase 293 18.3
Purchase 10,000 18.08
Purchase 400 18.36
Purchase 605 18.33
Purchase 482 18.33
Purchase 462 18.3
Purchase 160,584 18.5283
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 1,300 18.32
Purchase 237 18.33
Purchase 1,313 18.33
Purchase 455 18.31
Purchase 682 18.29
Purchase 870 18.34
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 584 18.35
Purchase 536 18.27
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 681 18.28
Purchase 7 18.32
Purchase 455 18.31
Purchase 461 18.36
Purchase 184 18.35
Purchase 109,822 18.3695
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 462 18.31
Purchase 608 18.34
Purchase 400 18.35
Purchase 600 18.36
Purchase 692 18.36
Purchase 923 18.33
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 1,700 18.34
Purchase 119 18.33
Purchase 1,019 18.34
Purchase 400 18.36
Purchase 118 18.31
Purchase 241 18.31
Purchase 162 18.34
Purchase 200 18.31
Purchase 396 18.37
Purchase 700 18.34
Purchase 524 18.37
Purchase 1,487 18.38
Purchase 692 18.31
Purchase 634 18.34
Purchase 854 18.33
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 267 18.31
Purchase 1,300 18.36
Purchase 76 18.36
Purchase 2,266 18.37
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 184 18.33
Purchase 461 18.36
Purchase 30 18.34
Purchase 1,363 18.31
Purchase 700 18.34
Purchase 262 18.31
Purchase 303 18.36
Purchase 923 18.37
Purchase 231 18.35
Purchase 1,200 18.31
Purchase 7 18.34
Purchase 21,345 18.3058
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 700 18.28
Purchase 308 18.3
Purchase 2,000 18.34
Purchase 461 18.32
Purchase 900 18.35
Purchase 1,156 18.35
Purchase 53 18.34
Purchase 1,154 18.35
Purchase 1,700 18.31
Purchase 776 18.35
Purchase 161 18.35
Purchase 152 18.32
Purchase 1,300 18.32
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 100 18.3
Purchase 1,797 18.35
Purchase 162 18.38
Purchase 1,993 18.35
Purchase 1,346 18.35
Purchase 1,577 18.5931
Purchase 16 18.38
Purchase 62 18.34
Purchase 455 18.33
Purchase 1,887 18.37
Purchase 454 18.31
Purchase 461 18.3
Purchase 700 18.35
Purchase 1,153 18.36
Purchase 200 18.35
Purchase 455 18.28
Purchase 42 18.37
Purchase 200 18.34
Purchase 400 18.29
Purchase 1,000 18.3
Purchase 69 18.35
Purchase 109 18.34
Purchase 1,300 18.3
Purchase 200 18.34
Purchase 653 18.33
Purchase 809 18.3
Purchase 207,192 18.3361
Purchase 203 18.35
Purchase 90 18.28
Purchase 527 18.37
Purchase 200 18.35
Purchase 1,100 18.35
Purchase 527 18.29
Purchase 227 18.27
Purchase 1,154 18.35
Purchase 962 18.35
Purchase 700 18.3
Purchase 1,007 18.34
Purchase 76 18.29
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 1,200 18.34
Purchase 1,154 18.35
Purchase 2,000 18.34
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 462 18.39
Purchase 672 18.34
Purchase 239 18.33
Purchase 462 18.33
Purchase 230 18.39
Purchase 2,273 18.34
Purchase 227 18.31
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 923 18.35
Purchase 410 18.35
Purchase 1,385 18.34
Purchase 2,272 18.34
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 123 18.31
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 1,137 18.31
Purchase 155 18.3
Purchase 354 18.31
Purchase 495 18.37
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 31 18.31
Purchase 162 18.36
Purchase 461 18.37
Purchase 1,100 18.36
Purchase 142 18.39
Purchase 1,137 18.31
Purchase 451 18.36
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 455 18.31
Purchase 454 18.29
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 200 18.35
Purchase 300 18.34
Purchase 432 18.31
Purchase 47 18.35
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 681 18.31
Purchase 73,000 18.4295
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 689 18.31
Purchase 590 18.3
Purchase 1,616 18.34
Purchase 38 18.34
Purchase 461 18.33
Purchase 260 18.36
Purchase 682 18.29
Purchase 169 18.3
Purchase 682 18.29
Purchase 700 18.35
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 728 18.35
Purchase 455 18.27
Purchase 462 18.37
Purchase 99 18.38
Purchase 78 18.34
Purchase 692 18.35
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 4,100 18.4591
Purchase 346 18.32
Purchase 435,163 18.4128
Purchase 718 18.33
Purchase 1,615 18.32
Purchase 583 18.35
Purchase 865 18.34
Purchase 692 18.37
Purchase 1,600 18.36
Purchase 1,384 18.34
Purchase 1,200 18.34
Purchase 123 18.34
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 4,003 18.08
Purchase 400 18.35
Purchase 1,674 18.34
Purchase 93 18.35
Purchase 71 18.31
Purchase 92 18.35
Purchase 1,154 18.35
Purchase 145 18.34
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 469 18.39
Purchase 26,725 18.3598
Purchase 1,615 18.38
Purchase 681 18.31
Purchase 1,154 18.31
Purchase 454 18.33
Purchase 800 18.36
Purchase 677 18.35
Purchase 114 18.35
Purchase 700 18.36
Purchase 838 18.34
Purchase 463 18.39
Purchase 255 18.3
Purchase 700 18.28
Purchase 426 18.35
Purchase 700 18.31
Purchase 926 18.2095
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 1,615 18.34
Purchase 455 18.29
Purchase 61 18.31
Purchase 461 18.37
Purchase 375 18.29
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 693 18.37
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 210 18.38
Purchase 127 18.34
Purchase 682 18.33
Purchase 162 18.34
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 94 18.35
Purchase 2,308 18.34
Purchase 309 18.37
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 630 18.37
Purchase 521 18.31
Purchase 54 18.36
Purchase 1,205 18.33
Purchase 454 18.31
Purchase 461 18.35
Purchase 114 18.35
Purchase 1,384 18.34
Purchase 1 18.33
Purchase 27 18.31
Purchase 692 18.29
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 339 18.31
Purchase 153 18.34
Purchase 700 18.34
Purchase 638 18.33
Purchase 444 18.36
Purchase 316 18.34
Purchase 700 18.32
Purchase 609 18.35
Purchase 923 18.34
Purchase 100 18.28
Purchase 923 18.35
Purchase 30 18.31
Purchase 592 18.39
Purchase 1,795 18.33
Purchase 1,173 18.31
Purchase 1,746 18.34
Purchase 462 18.36
Purchase 1,600 18.34
Purchase 4,032 18.34
Purchase 1,603 18.36
Purchase 500 18.3
Purchase 924 18.34
Purchase 291 18.36
Purchase 231 18.39
Purchase 454 18.29
Purchase 676 18.36
Purchase 451 18.35
Purchase 3,000 18.34
Purchase 600 18.36
Purchase 923 18.37
Purchase 1,354 18.34
Purchase 1,037 18.35
Purchase 423 18.34
Purchase 79 18.31
Purchase 461 18.35
Purchase 51 18.33
Purchase 191 18.38
Purchase 94 18.33
Purchase 261 18.37
Purchase 111 18.34
Purchase 1,100 18.35
Purchase 204,103 18.5018
Purchase 900 18.35
Purchase 700 18.34
Purchase 316 18.3
Purchase 1,296 18.39
Purchase 200 18.32
Purchase 231 18.34
Purchase 461 18.36
Purchase 870 18.34
Purchase 1,846 18.4
Purchase 2,308 18.31
Purchase 572 18.34
Purchase 1,616 18.33
Purchase 72,184 18.339
Purchase 361 18.29
Purchase 1,147 18.34
Purchase 250 18.36
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 606 18.29
Purchase 692 18.34
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 693 18.38
Purchase 680 18.34
Purchase 231 18.31
Purchase 1,208 18.33
Purchase 146 18.29
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 313 18.3785
Purchase 692 18.33
Purchase 1,385 18.37
Purchase 360 18.33
Purchase 2,304 18.36
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 231 18.34
Purchase 1,389 18.35
Purchase 1,300 18.36
Purchase 259 18.33
Purchase 1,000 18.35
Purchase 100 18.36
Purchase 45 18.3
Purchase 1,590 18.33
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 1,363 18.3
Purchase 138 18.38
Purchase 154 18.39
Purchase 451 18.33
Purchase 461 18.38
Purchase 1,102 18.35
Purchase 84 18.35
Purchase 2,100 18.34
Purchase 800 18.34
Purchase 1,154 18.36
Purchase 139 18.31
Purchase 672 18.35
Purchase 447 18.38
Purchase 249,291 18.3397
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 76 18.34
Purchase 101 18.34
Purchase 923 18.3
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 200 18.31
Purchase 197 18.37
Purchase 455 18.32
Purchase 455 18.29
Purchase 77 18.3
Purchase 924 18.31
Purchase 1,036 18.3
Purchase 1,616 18.34
Purchase 600 18.39
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 800 18.36
Purchase 800 18.34
Purchase 693 18.34
Purchase 682 18.31
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 218 18.33
Purchase 700 18.34
Purchase 531 18.38
Purchase 339 18.34
Purchase 38 18.32
Purchase 35 18.28
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 2,000 18.34
Purchase 692 18.31
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 216 18.39
Purchase 1,000 18.39
Purchase 461 18.35
Purchase 410 18.3
Purchase 923 18.31
Purchase 359 18.36
Purchase 705 18.34
Purchase 923 18.36
Purchase 11,713 18.0823
Purchase 100 18.31
Purchase 923 18.31
Purchase 200 18.32
Purchase 400 18.3
Purchase 197 18.36
Purchase 404 18.35
Purchase 1,963 18.29
Purchase 231 18.36
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 207 18.37
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 223 18.3
Purchase 129 18.34
Purchase 1,616 18.36
Purchase 1,300 18.34
Purchase 1,385 18.34
Purchase 700 18.37
Purchase 400 18.34
Purchase 200 18.35
Purchase 90 18.35
Purchase 681 18.28
Purchase 133 18.36
Purchase 8 18.31
Purchase 456 18.35
Purchase 227 18.34
Purchase 62 18.29
Purchase 28 18.35
Purchase 308 18.34
Purchase 1,516 18.35
Purchase 53 18.31
Purchase 93 18.33
Purchase 364 18.33
Purchase 252 18.35
Purchase 1,235 18.37
Purchase 10 18.35
Purchase 1,153 18.36
Purchase 1,154 18.31
Purchase 749 18.33
Purchase 154 18.35
Purchase 1,097 18.36
Purchase 500 18.31
Purchase 100 18.34
Purchase 100 18.31
Purchase 418 18.33
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 500 18.33
Purchase 351 18.34
Purchase 2,308 18.36
Purchase 50,818 18.3022
Purchase 1,415 18.35
Purchase 461 18.34
Purchase 1,600 18.31
Purchase 445 18.36
Purchase 1,300 18.35
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 936 18.31
Purchase 659 18.36
Purchase 1,100 18.31
Purchase 1,300 18.35
Purchase 450 18.35
Purchase 461 18.35
Purchase 322 18.6
Purchase 304 18.08
Purchase 1,534 18.2566
Purchase 726 18.3
Purchase 4,069 18.08
Purchase 254 18.37
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 682 18.34
Purchase 759 18.36
Purchase 1,219 18.35
Purchase 1,146 18.39
Purchase 585 18.31
Purchase 419 18.28
Purchase 390 18.33
Purchase 1,599 18.39
Purchase 344 18.35
Purchase 385 18.31
Purchase 1,590 18.32
Purchase 1,154 18.36
Purchase 100 18.3
Purchase 448 18.29
Purchase 363 18.4
Purchase 485 18.36
Purchase 234 18.38
Purchase 539 18.39
Purchase 800 18.36
Purchase 1,616 18.33
Purchase 92 18.39
Purchase 23,027 18.08
Purchase 210 18.32
Purchase 200 18.35
Purchase 384 18.3
Purchase 228 18.29
Purchase 255 18.39
Purchase 455 18.33
Purchase 462 18.32
Purchase 600 18.29
Purchase 100 18.36
Purchase 682 18.33
Purchase 461 18.35
Purchase 641 18.36
Purchase 1,300 18.34
Purchase 205 18.31
Purchase 473 18.38
Purchase 500 18.32
Purchase 600 18.36
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 1,154 18.32
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 420 18.36
Purchase 2,308 18.34
Purchase 462 18.34
Purchase 582 18.34
Purchase 1,400 18.35
Purchase 461 18.28
Purchase 120 18.32
Purchase 461 18.36
Purchase 600 18.27
Purchase 9 18.36
Purchase 100 18.31
Purchase 461 18.31
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 1,846 18.33
Purchase 909 18.3
Purchase 100 18.35
Purchase 277 18.33
Purchase 200 18.36
Purchase 309 18.29
Purchase 954 18.33
Purchase 208 18.34
Purchase 607 18.37
Purchase 692 18.31
Purchase 481 18.35
Purchase 148 18.33
Purchase 113 18.38
Purchase 200 18.31
Purchase 1,591 18.34
Purchase 1,154 18.38
Purchase 300 18.35
Purchase 194 18.31
Purchase 19,800 18.2543
Purchase 2,000 18.35
Purchase 700 18.35
Purchase 1,418 18.3
Purchase 455 18.31
Purchase 308 18.33
Purchase 1,600 18.29
Purchase 1,102 18.32
Purchase 1,154 18.35
Purchase 462 18.31
Purchase 923 18.35
Purchase 200 18.33
Purchase 682 18.27
Purchase 800 18.31
Purchase 700 18.33
Purchase 451 18.33
Purchase 179 18.36
Purchase 697 18.36
Purchase 692 18.33
Purchase 902 18.33
Purchase 310 18.29
Purchase 139 18.29
Purchase 94 18.29
Purchase 1,100 18.36
Purchase 107 18.35
Purchase 547 18.35
Purchase 682 18.31
Purchase 700 18.33
Purchase 1,300 18.34
Purchase 2,218 18.36
Purchase 600 18.34
Purchase 700 18.3
Sale 11,065 18.1
Sale 803 18.2617
Sale 39 18.42
Sale 43,943 18.4024
Sale 68 18.2517
Sale 165 18.3017
Sale 3,246 18.08
Sale 204,103 18.5018
Sale 39 18.3517
Sale 1,458 18.2847
Sale 6,379 18.08
Sale 43,025 18.2181
Sale 428 18.08
Sale 6,156 18.3416
Sale 743 18.08
Sale 452 18.08
Sale 51,428 18.2626
Sale 926 18.5965
Sale 38,745 18.1042
Sale 7,000 18.3665
Sale 350,000 18.3386
Sale 70,907 18.2445
Sale 2,059 18.08
Sale 887 18.2535
Sale 1,949 18.08
Sale 541 18.29
Sale 262,500 18.39
Sale 350 18.2712
Sale 1,000 18.2212
Sale 450 18.3312
Sale 3,442 18.2847
Sale 7,276 18.08
Sale 150 18.3512
Sale 660 18.08
Sale 1,082 18.08
Sale 1,256 18.08
Sale 508 18.08
Sale 4,325 18.08
Sale 435 18.08
Sale 700 18.4325
(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)
Product name, Long/Short Number of Price per
(e.g. CFD) (Note 6) Securities unit (GBP)
CFD Long 11065 18.1
CFD Long 38745 18.1041
CFD Long 43025 18.218
CFD Long 70907 18.2444
CFD Long 51428 18.2625
CFD Long 30922 18.3
CFD Long 8400 18.3001
CFD Long 7000 18.3665
CFD Long 43943 18.4024
CFD Long 5136 18.4138
CFD Long 926 18.5964
CFD Short 2802 18.0764
CFD Short 11713 18.0822
CFD Short 926 18.2095
CFD Short 19800 18.2543
CFD Short 50818 18.3022
CFD Short 21345 18.3058
CFD Short 207192 18.336
CFD Short 3134 18.3374
CFD Short 72184 18.339
CFD Short 249291 18.3396
CFD Short 22542 18.3564
CFD Short 26725 18.3598
CFD Short 109822 18.3695
CFD Short 435163 18.4127
CFD Short 73000 18.4295
CFD Short 4100 18.4591
CFD Short 160584 18.5282
CFD Short 1577 18.5931
(c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Product name, Writing, Number of Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Option money
e.g. call selling, securities to price American, date paid/received
option purchasing, which the option European etc. per unit (GBP)
varying etc. relates (GBP)
CALL Purchase 750 22 EURO 19/12/2008 1.11
(ii) Exercising
Product name, e.g. Number of Exercise price per
call option securities unit (Note 5)
(d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 4)
Nature of transaction Details Price per unit
(Note 8) (if applicable)
(Note 5)
4. OTHER INFORMATION
None
Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the
person disclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of
any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or
relating to the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any
relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is
referenced. If none, this should be stated.
Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached? (Note 9) YES
Date of disclosure 27 June 2008
Contact name Geoff Smith
Telephone number 020 7116 2913
If a connected EFM, name of
offeree/offeror with which connected
If a connected EFM, state nature of
connection (Note 10)
Notes
The Notes on Form 8.3 can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website at
www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk
SUPPLEMENTAL FORM 8
DETAILS OF OPEN POSITIONS
(This form should be attached to Form 8.1, Form 8.1(b)(ii) or Form 8.3, as appropriate)
OPEN POSITIONS (Note 1)
Product name, Written or Number of securities Exercise price Type, e.g. Expiry date
e.g. call option purchased to which the option (Note 2) American,
or derivative relates European etc.
Option Purchased 500,000 9.5000 EURO 19/12/2008
Option Purchased 750 2,200.0000 EURO 19/12/2008
Option Purchased 350 1,450.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased 350 1,450.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased 250 1,700.0000 EURO 19/12/2008
Option Purchased 250 1,500.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased 250 1,500.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased 250 1,900.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased 250 1,900.0000 EURO 18/12/2009
Option Purchased -500 950.0000 EURO 19/12/2008
Option Purchased -500 950.0000 EURO 19/12/2008
Option Purchased -250,000 16.0000 AMER 19/09/2008
Option Purchased -500,000 9.5000 EURO 19/12/2008
Notes
1. Where there are open option positions or open derivative positions (except for CFDs), full details should be given.
Full details of any existing agreements to purchase or to sell should also be given on this form.
2. For all prices and other monetary amounts, the currency must be stated.
For details of the Code's dealing disclosure requirements, see Rule 8 and its Notes which can be viewed on the Takeover
Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk