The FSMA publishes an unofficial overview of the current shareholding structure of companies under its supervision.
The information published is taken from the notifications that are still valid and that were filed with the FSMA by the persons subject to a notification requirement pursuant to the transparency legislation. The FSMA can not be held liable for the content of the information made available.
The reported information is the information on the date of the notification. The number of voting rights held by the notifying person may be different today. The notifying person is indeed obliged to notify only when the % of voting rights he holds crosses a threshold (upwards or downwards).
Since the format of the published information has been standardized, the overview does not always present all the information contained in the notifications.
Notifications made when a holding fell below the lowest threshold (as stipulated by law or in the company articles of association) are not shown in the overview.
The overview is updated daily. A new notification will be included in the overview at the earliest on the day after the publication by the relevant issuer of all the information contained in the said notification.
Explanation of the way in which the information is presented
For each notification presented, the holders of voting rights have been numbered. In this way, a distinction can be made in joint notifications between notifications by
1° controlling persons and the undertakings they control (hereafter groups): these are indicated by a single number;
2° persons acting in concert: these are assigned a number per party acting in concert.
In notifications by groups, the order of the names of the holders of voting rights is determined by their place in the chain of controlled undertakings: as a rule, the ultimate controlling person is indicated first (where there is one), followed by the second level in the chain, and so on down the control chain. Figures are provided next to the name of a holder of voting rights only if it has a direct shareholding. Thus holders of voting rights for which no figures are provided have only an indirect shareholding, via the undertakings they control.