Gemalto Announces Planned Ending of Registration of its Shares Under US Securities Laws

Gemalto Announces Planned Ending of Registration of its Shares Under US Securities Laws

June 05, 2007

    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 5 /xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
On January 29, 2007, Gemalto announced that it had acquired
100% of the shares of Gemplus International S.A.
("Gemplus") following its Public Exchange Offer
and the completion of the mandatory squeeze-out of the
Gemplus shares, in transactions exempt from the
registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of
1933. Consequently, Gemplus shares were delisted from the
Eurolist of Euronext Paris S.A. and the Gemplus American
depositary shares were delisted from the Nasdaq Global
Select Market. As a result of the transaction, Gemalto was
deemed to succeed to the registration of Gemplus under the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the
"Exchange Act").

    Pursuant to recently adopted Rule 12h-6(h) of the
Exchange Act, Gemalto gives notice today that it intends to
terminate the registration of its Ordinary Shares, no par
value, under section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to
terminate any of its remaining reporting obligations under
section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. To this
end, Gemalto filed today with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission a certification on Form 15F in order to
effect such termination.


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