EANS-General Meeting: BWT Aktiengesellschaft / Invitation to the General Meeting

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BWT Aktiengesellschaft, Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, 5310 Mondsee, Austria
Commercial Register no. FN 96162 s, ISIN AT0000737705

Invitation

The shareholders of our Company shall hereby be invited to the 21st
Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 11.00 a.m. in the
premises of Österreichische Kontrollbank AG, 1010 Vienna,
Strauchgasse 1-3, "Reitersaal".

Agenda:

1. Presentation of the approved financial statements 2010 including
the notes and the management report, the report of the Supervisory
Board, the corporate governance report as well as presentation of the
approved consolidated financial statements 2010 and the consolidated
management report.

2. Resolution on dividend distribution.

3. Resolution on the formal approval of the acts of the members of
the Management Board for the business year 2010.

4. Resolution on the formal approval of the acts of the members of
the Supervisory Board for the business year 2010.

5. Resolution on the remuneration of the members of the Supervisory
Board.

6. Election to Supervisory Board.

7. Appointment of the auditor for the business year 2011.

Documentation for the Annual General Meeting

As of 4 May 2011 latest, the documentation, including the financial
statements and the notes, the management report, the report of the
Supervisory Board, the corporate governance report, the consolidated
financial statements and the consolidated management report, as well
as the proposed resolutions of the Management Board and the
Supervisory Board, and the declarations according section 87,
paragraph 2 of the Stock Corporation Act are presented in the
premises of the Company at Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, 5310 Mondsee in
accordance with section 108, paragraph 3 of the Stock Corporation
Act. As of 4 May 2011 latest, such documentation, the complete
wording of this invitation as well as the form for granting or
revoking a proxy for the Annual General Meeting (section 114 of the
Stock Corporation Act) shall be available free of charge on the
Company´s website at http://www.bwt-group.com/EN/Investor-Relations/S
ervice/General-Meeting/.

Such information shall be permanently available on the website one
month after the Annual General Meeting.

Right to participate - record date and safe custody receipt

The right to participate in the Annual General Meeting and to
exercise the shareholders´ rights to be asserted in connection with
the Annual General Meeting is in accordance with the shareholding on
the record date, i.e. at the end of the 10th day before the date of
the Annual General Meeting, in this case midnight CET 15 May 2011.
Only persons who are shareholders on the record date and provide
evidence therefor shall be entitled to participate in the Annual
General Meeting. In case of deposited bearer shares, a safe custody
receipt in accordance with section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act
shall suffice as evidence for the capacity as a shareholder, to be
received by the Company (c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH,
Seeböckgasse 41, 1160 Wien) no later than 20 May 2011. In case of
interim certificates, the shareholder has no obligation to send a
confirmation. The Company shall check whether the shareholder is
entered in the register of shareholders as of the record date.

The safe custody receipt must be issued by the depositary bank
headquartered in a state which must be either a member state of the
European Economic Area or a full member of the OECD and must include
at least the data stipulated by section 10a of the Stock Corporation
Act. Information concerning the entity issuing the receipt:
Name/corporate name and address. Information concerning the
shareholder: Name/corporate name, address, date of birth for natural
persons, and where applicable commercial register and commercial
registration number. Information concerning the shares: Number of
shares held by shareholder, safe custody number, inter alia any other
relevant description, and date in relation to which the safe custody
receipt has been issued. The safe custody receipt shall be accepted
in German and in English and must be in writing (signature/company
signature).

The transmission of the safe custody receipts via an internationally
used specifically secured communication network of the banks shall be
excluded in accordance with section 262, paragraph 20 of the Stock
Corporation Act. Therefore, the safe custody receipts shall be sent
exclusively via mail to HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH, Seeböckgasse
41, 1160 Wien, Austria, via fax at +43 (0) 1 - 8900 500 - 84 or via
e-mail to anmeldung.bwt@hauptversammlung.at. An electronic
transmission (e-mail) shall only be admissible if a qualified
electronic signature in accordance with section 4 of the Signature
Act is used. We would like to point out that the shareholders will
not be barred once they register for the Annual General Meeting or
sent a safe custody receipt, i.e. the shareholders may continue to
freely dispose of their shares, even after they register for the
Annual General Meeting or sent a safe custody receipt.

Instructions on the rights of the shareholders in accordance with
section 106, no. 5 of the Stock Corporation Act

In accordance with section 109 of the Stock Corporation Act
shareholders, whose shares together account for 5 % of the registered
capital, may request in writing that items are added to the agenda
and announced. A proposed resolution and reasons therefor must
accompany each item on the agenda applied for. The applicants must
hold the shares for at least three months before filing their
application. Such applica-tion in writing must be received by the
Company no later than on the 21st day before the Annual General
Meeting, i.e. 4 May 2011, exclusively at the address: BWT
Aktiengesellschaft, Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria,
via fax +43 (0) 6232 5011 - 1191. An electronic transmission (e-mail)
shall only be admissible if a qualified electronic signature in
accordance with section 4 of the Signature Act is used; for this
purpose, the exclusive e-mail address to be used is:
Hauptversammlung@bwt-group.com.

In accordance with section 110 of the Stock Corporation Act,
shareholders whose shares together account for 1 % of the registered
capital may propose resolutions in writing regarding each item on the
agenda to the Company and request that such proposals are made
available on the website of the Company together with the names of
the relevant shareholders, the accompanying reasons and a statement
of the Management Board or the Supervisory Board, if any. In case of
a proposal for the election of a Supervisory Board member, the
statement of the proposed person in accordance with section 87,
paragraph 2 of the Stock Corporation Act shall replace the reasons.
Such application in writing must be received by the Company no later
than on the 7th working day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e.
16 May 2011, exclusively at the address: BWT Aktiengesellschaft,
Walter-Simmer-Str. 4, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria, via fax +43 (0) 6232
5011 - 1191 or via e-mail: Hauptversammlung@bwt-group.com.

Shareholders' rights in accordance with sections 109 and 110 of the
Stock Corporation Act may only be exercised if the capacity as
shareholder is evidenced. For deposited bearer shares, the
presentation of a safe custody receipt shall suffice as evidence in
accordance with section 10a of the Stock Corporation Act, which may
not be older than seven days at the time it is presented to the
Company. As to the other requirements for the safe custody receipt
reference is made to the statements above. In case of interim
certificates, the Company shall check whether the shareholder is
entered in the register of shareholders as of the record date.

In accordance with section 118 of the Stock Corporation Act and upon
request, each shareholder is entitled to receive information on the
matters of the Company during the Annual General Meeting, to the
extent such information is necessary for the proper evaluation of an
item on the agenda. The duty to furnish information covers the legal
and business relationships of the Company with an affiliated company.
The information may be withheld to the extent it may cause a material
negative impact to the Company or affiliated company according to
reasonable entrepreneurial evaluation or in case disclosure of such
information is illegal. Information may also be withheld if such
information was continuously available on the Company´s website in a
question and answer format for at least seven days before the
beginning of the Annual General Meeting. The reason for withholding
the information must be stated.

In accordance with section 119 of the Stock Corporation Act, each
shareholder, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board shall be
entitled to file applications for each item on the agenda in the
Annual General Meeting. No resolution may be passed on a negotiation
topic that was not properly announced as an item on the agenda. No
announcement is required for resolutions on an application for the
convention of a General Meeting made in the meeting and for
negotiations without resolution. A proposed resolution announced on
the website of the Company in accordance with section 110 of the
Stock Corporation Act shall only be put to the vote if such proposal
is reiterated in the Meeting as a application. Please visit our
Company´s website at http://www.bwt-group.com/EN/Investor-Relations/S
ervice/General-Meeting/ for further information on shareholders´
rights in accordance with sections 109, 110, 118 and 119 of the Stock
Corporation Act.

Representation by proxy

Each shareholder entitled to participate in the Annual General
Meeting has the right to appoint an individual or a legal entity as
proxy, who participates in the Annual General Meeting in the name of
the shareholder and who has the same rights as the shareholder. The
Company or a member of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board
may only exercise the voting right in the capacity of proxy to the
extent the shareholders gave explicit instructions concerning the
individual items on the agenda.

The proxy must be granted in writing; a revocation must also be in
writing. The form for the granting of the proxy and/or its revocation
is available free of charge on the website of the Company at http://w
ww.bwt-group.com/EN/Investor-Relations/Service/General-Meeting/ or
may be sent to you upon request. The proxy and/or its revocation may
either be delivered during the General Meeting or sent to the Company
(c/o HV-Veranstaltungsservice GmbH, Seeböckgasse 41, 1160 Wien), via
fax +43 (0) 1 8900 500 - 84 or e-mail to
anmeldung.bwt@hauptversammlung.at (scanned attachment TIF, PDF, or
else), whereas when using such forms of communication, the proxy
and/or its revocation must be received by the Company no later than
24 May 2011, 1 p.m. CET.

In case a shareholder granted proxy to his/her depositary bank, it
shall suffice if such bank declares that it has proxy, in addition to
the presentation of the safe custody receipt. The transmission of
such statement via an internationally used specifically secured
communication network of the banks shall be excluded in accordance
with section 262, paragraph 20 of the Stock Corporation Act; the
transmission shall be effected via the means of communication
stipulated above in connection with the safe custody receipt.

In order to avoid any delays at the entrance checks shareholders
and/or their proxies will be asked to present themselves in due time
before the start of the Annual General meeting and to present an
official photo identification (driver´s licence, passport,
identification card) for an identity check at the entrance to the
General Meeting. Voting cards may be collected starting from 10.00
a.m. onwards.

In accordance with section 106 no. 9 of the Stock Corporation Act and
section 83, paragraph 2, no. 1 of the Stock Exchange Act, we would
like to announce that the Company´s registered capital is divided
into 17,833,500 no-par shares made out to the bearer.

Each no-par share holds one vote. At the time the General Meeting is
convened, BWT Aktiengesellschaft holds 1,006,143 own shares. The
Company derives no rights therefrom. Therefore, at the time the
Annual General Meeting is convened, the total number of participating
and voting shares is 16,827,357.

Mondsee, April 2011

The Management Board

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Further inquiry note:

BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Mag. Ralf Burchert
ralf.burchert@bwt-group.com
Tel.: 06232/5011-1113

Branche: Water Supply
ISIN: AT0000737705
WKN: 884042
Index: ATX Prime
Börsen: Wien / official market