Issue of Share Options

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc
12 June 2006

                         ADVANCED SMARTCARD TECHNOLOGIES

                        Employee Share Options Granted and
                               Exercise of Options

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc, (SMRT) the Scottish based software group 
specialising in smartcard technology, announces that on 9 June 2006, the Company 
granted options over 666,666 New Ordinary Shares under the Company's EMI Share 
Option Scheme. The objective of this scheme is to attract, motivate and retain
staff and to align their objectives with those of shareholders.

The options have an exercise price of 4.0p per share and can be exercised at any
point between 3 July 2009 and 2 July 2016.

The Company can also announce that an application has been made to admit to
trading on AIM, 309,025 Ordinary Shares resulting from the exercise on 9 June 
2006 of employee share options at 0.6472p per Ordinary Share. The new shares are 
due to be admitted for trading on 16 June 2006.

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Date: 12 June 2006
For further information contact:

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc           01355 268521
David Braddock, Managing Director
Stephen Naylor, Finance Director

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Ian Callaway
Peter Manfield

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Simon Courtenay
Andrew Harris

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Nick Harriss




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