Holdings in Company

Financial Services Authority


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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                    |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the     |                            |
| underlying issuer                    |                            |
| of existing shares to which voting   |      Jupiter European      |
| rights are                           |  Opportunities Trust Plc   |
| attached:                            |                            |
|                                      |                            |
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| 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box   |
| or boxes):                                                        |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights        |     Yes      |
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|                                                    |              |
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial |              |
| instruments which may result in the acquisition of |              |
| shares already issued to which voting rights are   |              |
| attached.                                          |              |
|                                                    |              |
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|                                                    |              |
| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with     |              |
| similar economic effect to qualifying financial    |              |
| instruments                                        |              |
|                                                    |              |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights   |              |
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|                       |                            |              |
| Other (please         |                            |              |
| specify):             |                            |              |
|                       |                            |              |
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| 3. Full name of person(s)     |                                   |
| subject to the                |  Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)  |
| notification obligation:      |                                   |
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| 4. Full name of               |     Legal & General Assurance     |
| shareholder(s)                |   (Pensions Management) Limited   |
|  (if different from 3.):      |               (PMC)               |
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|                               |                                   |
| 5. Date of the transaction    |                                   |
| and date on                   |                                   |
| which the threshold is        |          05 October 2009          |
| crossed or                    |                                   |
| reached:                      |                                   |
|                               |                                   |
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| 6. Date on which issuer       |          06 October 2009          |
| notified:                     |                                   |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are   |                                   |
| crossed or                    |        From 4% - 3% (L&G)         |
| reached:                      |                                   |
|                               |                                   |
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|8. Notified details:                                                                                |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                                 |
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|Class/type of  |     Situation previous      | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
|shares         |      to the triggering      |                                                      |
|if possible    |         transaction         |                                                      |
|using          |-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------|
|the ISIN CODE  |     Number      |  Number   |         |   Number of voting   | % of  voting rights |
|               |       of        |    of     | Number  |        rights        |                     |
|               |     Shares      |  Voting   |of shares|----------------------+---------------------|
|               |                 |  Rights   |         |   Direct   |Indirect |  Direct   |Indirect |
|---------------+-----------------+-----------+---------+------------+---------+-----------+---------|
|ORD            |                 |           |         |            |         |           |         |
|               |    3,371,030    | 3,371,030 |3,229,212| 3,229,212  |         |   3.98    |         |
|GBP 0.01       |                 |           |         |            |         |           |         |
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|B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                 |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                |
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|                        |              |                      |Number of voting       |             |
|Type of financial       |Expiration    |Exercise/             |rights that may be     |% of voting  |
|instrument              |date          |Conversion Period     |acquired if the        |rights       |
|                        |              |                      |instrument is          |             |
|                        |              |                      |exercised/ converted.  |             |
|------------------------+--------------+----------------------+-----------------------+-------------|
|                        |              |                      |                       |             |
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|                                                                                                    |
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|C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments           |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                |
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|                |                |          |          |                         |                  |
|Type          of|Exercise price  |Expiration|Exercise/ |Number of  voting  rights|% of voting rights|
|financial       |                |date      |Conversion|instrument refers to     |                  |
|instrument      |                |          |period    |                         |                  |
|                |                |          |          |                         |                  |
|----------------+----------------+----------+----------+-------------------------+------------------|
|                |                |          |          |                         | Nominal  | Delta |
|                |                |          |          |                         |----------+-------|
|                |                |          |          |                         |          |       |
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|Total (A+B+C)                                                                                       |
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|Number of voting rights                           |Percentage of voting rights                      |
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|                                                  |                                                 |
|                    3,229,212                     |                      3.98                       |
|                                                  |                                                 |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting      |
| rights and/or the                                                 |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:        |
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|                                                                   |
|                                                                   |
| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect)                   |
| (Group)                                                           |
| Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings)                  |
| Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect)                             |
| Legal & General Investment Management Limited                     |
| (Indirect) (LGIM)                                                 |
|  Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (3,229,212 - 3.98 % =   |
|                         LGAS, LGPL & PMC)                         |
| Legal & General Investment         Legal & General Insurance      |
| Management (Holdings) Limited      Holdings Limited (Direct)      |
| (Direct) (LGIMHD) (2,979,357 -     (LGIH)                         |
| 3.67 % = PMC)                                                     |
| Legal & General Assurance          Legal & General Assurance      |
| (Pensions Management) Limited      Society Limited  (LGAS & LGPL) |
| (PMC) (2,979,357 - 3.67 % = PMC)                                  |
|                                    Legal & General Pensions       |
|                                    Limited (Direct)  (LGPL)       |
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:                  |       N/A        |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will  |       N/A        |
| cease                                          |                  |
| to hold:                                       |                  |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to   |       N/A        |
| hold                                           |                  |
| voting rights:                                 |                  |
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| 13. Additional             | Notification using the total voting  |
| information:               |     rights figure of 80,969,523      |
|                            |                                      |
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| 14. Contact name:          |          Helen Lewis (LGIM)          |
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