Granting of Options

ADVANCED SMARTCARD TECHNOLOGIES PLC
                                 (the 'Company')

                                Granting of Options

1 March 2007

Advanced  Smartcard Technologies plc, (SMRT) the Scottish based  software  group
specialising  in smartcard technology announces that, on 28 February  2007,  the
Company  granted options over 1,166,666 Ordinary Shares in the  Company  to  Tom
Doyle, Non-Executive Chairman of the Company.

These options have an exercise price of 3.7 pence per Ordinary Share and can  be
exercised at any time from 28 February 2009 until 28 February 2017.

On  28  February  2007 the Company also granted options over 1,000,000  Ordinary
Shares  in  the  Company  under the Company's EMI Share  Option  Scheme.  These
options are also exercisable at a price of 3.7 pence per Ordinary Share, and are
exercisable  at  any  time from 28 February 2010 until  28  February  2017.  The
objective of this scheme is to attract, motivate and retain staff and  to  align
their objectives with those of shareholders.


None  of the Company's employees whom have been issued with options to subscribe
for  Ordinary Shares in the Company pursuant to the EMI Share Option Scheme  are
Directors  of  the Company. Nor are they significant or substantial shareholders
in the Company.


For further information contact:

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc    01355 813430
David Braddock, Managing Director
Stephen Naylor, Finance Director

SVS Securities plc                     020 7638 5600
Ian Callaway
Peter Manfield

ARM Corporate Finance Limited          020 7512 0191
Nick Harriss


NOTES TO EDITORS

About Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc

Advanced  Smartcard Technologies plc, through its wholly owned subsidiary  Ecebs
Limited,  is  a  profit making, software company operating in  the  dynamic  and
expanding  smartcard  arena. SMRT listed on AIM in December  2005.  The  Company
provides  smartcard  technology  to  a wide  range  of  user  markets  including
transport, ID, healthcare, finance and local and national government departments
and blue-chip companies.