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UBS AG (EPT)27 March 2008 FORM 38.5(b) DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RI STATUS BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY (Rule 38.5(b) of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader UBS AG London BranchCompany dealt in Rio Tinto LimitedClass of relevant security to which the Ordinarydealings being disclosed relate (Note 1)Date of dealing 26 MARCH 2008 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant security dealt in (Note 2) Long Short Number (%) Number (%)(1) Relevant securities 0 0.00% 206 0.00%(2) Derivatives (other thanoptions)(3) Options and agreements topurchase/sellTotal 0 0.00% 206 0.00% (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other than the class dealt in (Note 2) Class of relevant security: Long Short Number (%) Number (%)(1) Relevant securities(2) Derivatives (other thanoptions)(3) Options and agreements topurchase/sellTotal (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 2)Class of relevant security: Details 3. DEALINGS (Note 3) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/sale Number of securities Price per unit (Note 4) PURCHASE 1 11815 AUD Cents PURCHASE 1 11815 PURCHASE 3 11815 PURCHASE 137 11815 PURCHASE 1872 11815 SALE 322 11817 SALE 271 11817 SALE 90 11817 SALE 21 11817 SALE 13 11817 PURCHASE 577 11817 SALE 359 11819 SALE 246 11820 SALE 30 11820 PURCHASE 11 11820 PURCHASE 316 11820 SALE 300 11821 SALE 297 11821 SALE 51 11821 PURCHASE 180 11821 PURCHASE 1588 11823 SALE 621 11831 SALE 455 11832 PURCHASE 367 11833 SALE 253 11835 SALE 197 11835 SALE 146 11835 SALE 142 11835 SALE 123 11835 SALE 79 11835 SALE 52 11835 SALE 27 11835 SALE 26 11835 SALE 14 11835 SALE 9 11835 SALE 3 11835 SALE 1 11835 SALE 390 11836 SALE 98 11836 SALE 202 11837 PURCHASE 1341 11837 SALE 100 11839 PURCHASE 539 11841 SALE 159 11842 SALE 85 11842 SALE 85 11842 SALE 71 11842 SALE 173 11843 SALE 133 11843 SALE 115 11843 SALE 20 11843 SALE 403 11844 SALE 200 11844 SALE 73 11844 SALE 3 11844 SALE 300 11846 PURCHASE 29 11846 PURCHASE 200 11846 PURCHASE 29 11848 PURCHASE 319 11848 SALE 48 11850 SALE 24 11850 PURCHASE 4 11851 PURCHASE 7 11851 PURCHASE 11 11851 PURCHASE 147 11851 PURCHASE 168 11851 PURCHASE 315 11851 PURCHASE 555 11851 PURCHASE 678 11851 PURCHASE 768 11851 PURCHASE 309 11852 PURCHASE 851 11854 PURCHASE 2099 11859 PURCHASE 29 11860 PURCHASE 543 11860 PURCHASE 800 11860 SALE 159 11861 PURCHASE 1852 11861 SALE 80 11862 SALE 123 11863 SALE 35 11863 SALE 694 11866 SALE 100 11866 SALE 22 11866 SALE 358 11868 SALE 162 11868 SALE 1069 11869 SALE 435 11870 SALE 385 11870 SALE 190 11870 SALE 36 11870 PURCHASE 1523 11870 SALE 988 11871 SALE 439 11871 SALE 351 11871 SALE 74 11871 SALE 11 11871 SALE 1 11871 PURCHASE 80 11871 PURCHASE 727 11871 PURCHASE 13 11872 SALE 859 11873 SALE 114 11873 SALE 116 11874 PURCHASE 4 11874 PURCHASE 27 11874 PURCHASE 232 11874 PURCHASE 700 11874 PURCHASE 859 11874 PURCHASE 1027 11874 PURCHASE 1074 11874 SALE 611 11876 SALE 500 11876 SALE 482 11876 SALE 100 11876 SALE 41 11876 SALE 40 11876 SALE 37 11876 SALE 11 11876 SALE 7 11876 SALE 2 11876 PURCHASE 28 11877 PURCHASE 1069 11877 SALE 62 11878 SALE 358 11879 PURCHASE 200 11879 SALE 368 11880 SALE 300 11880 SALE 250 11880 SALE 25 11880 SALE 512 11881 SALE 489 11882 SALE 85 11882 SALE 149 11883 SALE 400 11885 SALE 194 11885 SALE 14 11885 SALE 7 11885 SALE 2 11885 SALE 260 11886 SALE 534 11887 SALE 14 11887 SALE 57227 11887.17689 PURCHASE 57227 11887.17689 SALE 456 11888 SALE 88 11888 SALE 57 11889 SALE 1963 11890 SALE 1478 11890 SALE 955 11890 SALE 828 11890 SALE 540 11890 SALE 498 11890 SALE 473 11890 SALE 373 11890 SALE 200 11890 SALE 100 11890 SALE 58 11890 SALE 23 11890 SALE 4 11890 SALE 358 11891 SALE 268 11891 SALE 174 11891 SALE 144 11891 SALE 83 11891 SALE 82 11891 SALE 66 11891 SALE 53 11891 SALE 16 11891 SALE 8 11891 SALE 8 11891 SALE 3 11891 SALE 181 11893 SALE 83 11893 SALE 22 11893 SALE 21 11893 SALE 19 11893 SALE 786 11894 SALE 700 11894 SALE 435 11894 SALE 287 11894 SALE 100 11894 SALE 60 11894 SALE 36 11894 SALE 36 11894 SALE 17 11894 PURCHASE 1574 11894 SALE 57866 11894.50301 PURCHASE 57866 11894.50301 SALE 189 11896 SALE 119 11896 SALE 11 11896 PURCHASE 758 11896 SALE 519 11897 SALE 447 11897 SALE 1300 11898 SALE 247 11898 SALE 238 11898 SALE 102 11898 SALE 101 11898 SALE 94 11898 SALE 71 11898 SALE 70 11898 SALE 62 11898 SALE 14 11898 SALE 3 11898 SALE 500 11899 SALE 63 11899 PURCHASE 100 11899 PURCHASE 1521 11899 SALE 2000 11900 SALE 93 11900 SALE 68 11900 SALE 13 11900 SALE 10 11900 PURCHASE 100 11900 PURCHASE 750 11900 PURCHASE 859 11900 PURCHASE 52 11901 PURCHASE 100 11901 PURCHASE 2048 11901 PURCHASE 2100 11901 PURCHASE 959 11902 PURCHASE 2100 11902 PURCHASE 1498 11903 SALE 268 11904 SALE 3 11904 PURCHASE 1507 11904 SALE 642 11905 SALE 10 11905 SALE 5 11905 PURCHASE 2099 11906 PURCHASE 9 11907 PURCHASE 431 11907 SALE 712 11908 SALE 133 11908 PURCHASE 645 11909 SALE 615 11910 SALE 100 11910 SALE 55 11910 SALE 8 11910 SALE 3 11910 PURCHASE 85 11910 PURCHASE 300 11910 PURCHASE 500 11910 PURCHASE 656 11910 PURCHASE 50 11911 PURCHASE 126 11911 PURCHASE 353 11911 PURCHASE 914 11913 SALE 288 11914 SALE 188 11914 SALE 465 11916 SALE 393 11916 SALE 102 11916 SALE 71 11916 SALE 350 11918 SALE 226 11918 PURCHASE 772 11918 SALE 226 11919 SALE 175 11919 SALE 1 11919 SALE 957 11920 SALE 255 11920 SALE 171 11920 SALE 148 11920 SALE 84 11920 PURCHASE 6 11920 PURCHASE 7 11920 PURCHASE 20 11920 PURCHASE 20 11920 PURCHASE 103 11920 PURCHASE 110 11920 PURCHASE 125 11920 PURCHASE 209 11920 PURCHASE 215 11920 PURCHASE 400 11920 PURCHASE 540 11920 PURCHASE 945 11920 PURCHASE 76 11923 PURCHASE 517 11923 SALE 295 11925 SALE 180 11925 SALE 104 11925 SALE 8 11925 SALE 3 11925 SALE 168 11928 PURCHASE 4 11928 PURCHASE 1113 11928 PURCHASE 191 11929 SALE 500 11930 SALE 436 11930 SALE 123 11930 SALE 24 11930 SALE 527 11931 SALE 644 11932 SALE 76 11932 SALE 30 11932 SALE 16 11932 SALE 14 11932 SALE 3 11932 SALE 258 11933 SALE 120 11933 SALE 41 11933 SALE 602 11934 SALE 489 11934 SALE 403 11934 SALE 160 11934 SALE 132 11934 SALE 89 11934 SALE 51 11934 SALE 50 11934 SALE 18 11934 SALE 500 11935 SALE 364 11935 SALE 319 11935 SALE 75 11935 SALE 15 11935 PURCHASE 148 11935 PURCHASE 2094 11935 SALE 1313 11937 SALE 315 11938 SALE 49 11938 SALE 32 11938 SALE 4 11938 SALE 478 11939 SALE 166 11939 SALE 9 11939 SALE 1 11939 SALE 915 11940 SALE 110 11941 SALE 268 11942 SALE 11 11942 SALE 3 11942 SALE 189 11943 PURCHASE 1297 11943 SALE 566 11945 SALE 358 11945 SALE 309 11945 SALE 188 11945 SALE 9 11945 SALE 8 11945 SALE 3 11945 SALE 8 11946 SALE 786 11952 SALE 222 11952 SALE 96 11952 PURCHASE 1912 11954 TOTAL PURCHASES 172,320 TOTAL SALES 172,959 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)Product name, e.g Long/short (Note 5) Number of securities Price per unitCFD (Note 6) (Note 4) (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Optionname,e.g. selling, securities price American, date money paid/call purchasing, to which the European received peroption varying etc option etc. unit (Note relates 4) (Note 6) (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call Number of securities Exercise price per unitoption (Note 4) (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 3) Nature of transaction Details Price per unit (if applicable)(Note 7) 4. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. .............................................................................. .............................................................................. Is a Supplemental Form 38.5(b) attached? (Note 8) NO Date of disclosure 27 MARCH 2008Contact name LOUISE ROBINSONTelephone number 020 7567 8762Name of offeree/offeror with which connected BHP Billiton PLC BHP Billiton LTDNature of connection (Note 9) CONNECTED ADVISER Notes The Notes on Form 38.5(b) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
Rio Tinto