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Barclays PLC

18 August 2025

FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1.				KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Name of exempt principal trader:				BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose				SPECTRIS PLC
	relevant securities this form relates:
(c)	Name of the party to the offer with which exempt				SPECTRIS PLC
	principal trader is connected
(d)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:				15 Aug 2025
(e)	In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal				NO
	trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2.				POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree
	to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security:				5p ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1)	Relevant securities owned
	and/or controlled:			2,745,576	2.76%	453,608	0.46%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			231,686	0.23%	2,534,551	2.55%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%

	TOTAL:			2,977,262	3.00%	2,988,159	3.01%
(b)	Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other executive
	options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3.				DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Purchases and sales
Class of relevant		Purchase/sale		Total number of		Highest price per unit	Lowest price per unit
security				securities		paid/received	paid/received
5p ordinary		Purchase		155,118		40.3200 GBP	40.2857 GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		98,764		40.3203 GBP	40.2800 GBP

(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of		Product		Nature of dealing		Number of	Price per
relevant		description				reference	unit
security						securities
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		11,577	40.2800 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,772	40.2808 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,389	40.2837 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,895	40.2850 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,157	40.2862 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,466	40.2870 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,017	40.2951 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		207	40.2959 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		206	40.2988 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		123	40.2993 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		303	40.3004 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		55	40.3025 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		100	40.3102 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		200	40.3130 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		75	40.3136 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		24	40.3141 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,774	40.3173 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4	40.3193 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,514	40.3198 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		49	40.2930 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		24	40.2932 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,785	40.2940 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		439	40.2945 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		422	40.2970 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,016	40.2976 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		9,702	40.3000 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		123	40.3006 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		26	40.3032 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,466	40.3036 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		64	40.3037 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		573	40.3069 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,489	40.3140 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		212	40.3162 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		31,546	40.3200 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,855	40.3201 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		16,900	40.3296 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		3,708	40.2879 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		23,044	40.2888 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		886	40.2900 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		17	40.2905 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		52,429	40.3200 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		9,281	40.2857 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		13,413	40.2934 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		739	40.3000 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		18,071	40.3012 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		431	40.3057 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		56,651	40.3200 GBP

(c)	Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i)	Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class	Product	Writing,	Number	Exercise	Type	Expiry	Option
of	description	purchasing,	of	price		date	money
relevant		selling,	securities	per unit			paid/
security		varying etc	to which				received
			option				per unit
			relates


(ii)	Exercising
Class of relevant		Product description		Exercising/ exercised against		Number of	Exercise price per
security						securities	unit


(d)	Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant		Nature of Dealings		Details		Price per unit (if
security						applicable)

4.				OTHER INFORMATION
(a)	Indemnity and other dealings arrangements
Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding,
formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal
or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b)	Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between
the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to:
(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or
(ii) the voting rights of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c)	Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?				NO
Date of disclosure:				18 Aug 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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