17 September 2007 Announcement No. 21/2007 To the Copenhagen Stock Exchange The Extraordinary General Meeting was held in accordance with the published agenda (announcement No. 20/2007). Accordingly, the General Meeting adopted the proposal submitted by the Board of Directors for reducing the Company's share capital by a total of 820,900 shares which had been bought back during the summer of 2007. The reduction in share capital will be at a stock market price of DKK 983.17 per share and a total of DKK 807,083,342 will be transferred from the Company's tied-up capital to its free reserves. On 17 September 2007 the reduction in capital will be reported to the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency and in practice, the cancellation of the shares will be effected on the expiry of the three-month time limit for filing objections. After the cancellation the share capital will be DKK 176,310,000 (17,631,000 shares). Furthermore, the proposal submitted by the Board of Directors for general guidelines for performance-related pay was adopted. Please direct any queries to: Steffen Heegaard, Head of IR and Communications Direct tel: +45 4474 4017 Mobile: +45 4025 3524