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Barclays PLC

19 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:				18 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:			2,754,294	2.77%	455,639	0.46%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			233,844	0.24%	2,543,396	2.56%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%

	TOTAL:			2,988,138	3.01%	2,999,035	3.02%
(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		112,041		40.3500 GBP	40.2826 GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		105,354		40.3400 GBP	40.2859 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		5,757	40.2913 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,614	40.2947 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		564	40.2972 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		630	40.3000 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,981	40.3071 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		190	40.3087 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,032	40.3090 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		563	40.3120 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		251	40.3147 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		46	40.3169 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		117	40.3170 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		39	40.3179 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,528	40.3188 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		628	40.3193 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		786	40.3198 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		11,951	40.3200 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		15	40.2860 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2	40.3000 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		25,000	40.3001 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,822	40.3003 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		11	40.3032 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		58	40.3034 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		287	40.3038 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,125	40.3042 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		31	40.3096 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		705	40.3103 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		73	40.3180 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,958	40.3199 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,627	40.3200 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,344	40.3204 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,168	40.3218 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,109	40.3220 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		628	40.3418 GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		231	40.3420 GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		1,170	40.3148 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:				19 Aug 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC.

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