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UBS AG (EPT)27 February 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 FEBRUARY 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% 1,319 0.00%(2) Derivatives (other thanoptions)(3) Options and agreements topurchase/sellTotal 0 0.00% 1,319 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 20 13369 AUD PURCHASE 60 13369 PURCHASE 186 13369 PURCHASE 613 13369 PURCHASE 1 13370 PURCHASE 54 13370 PURCHASE 244 13370 PURCHASE 405 13370 PURCHASE 477 13370 SALE 520 13372 SALE 313 13372 SALE 86 13372 SALE 12 13372 SALE 5 13372 PURCHASE 499 13378 PURCHASE 442 13380 PURCHASE 243 13381 SALE 56 13383 PURCHASE 36 13383 PURCHASE 117 13383 PURCHASE 118 13383 SALE 791 13384 SALE 650 13385 SALE 332 13385 SALE 74 13385 SALE 44 13385 SALE 8 13385 SALE 7 13385 SALE 297 13386 SALE 215 13386 SALE 868 13387 SALE 204 13387 SALE 200 13387 SALE 12 13387 SALE 2 13387 SALE 564 13388 SALE 195 13388 SALE 2 13388 PURCHASE 316 13390 PURCHASE 566 13390 SALE 233 13391 PURCHASE 17 13391 PURCHASE 213 13391 PURCHASE 241 13391 SALE 185 13393 SALE 13 13393 PURCHASE 473 13395 PURCHASE 14 13399 PURCHASE 60 13399 PURCHASE 282 13399 SALE 500 13400 SALE 200 13400 SALE 50 13400 SALE 131 13401 PURCHASE 1 13402 PURCHASE 3 13402 PURCHASE 100 13402 PURCHASE 300 13402 SALE 106 13405 SALE 705 13410 SALE 130 13410 PURCHASE 266 13414 PURCHASE 266 13414 PURCHASE 9 13417 PURCHASE 62 13417 PURCHASE 119 13417 SALE 406 13420 SALE 285 13420 SALE 73 13420 PURCHASE 1 13420 PURCHASE 1 13420 PURCHASE 2 13420 PURCHASE 11 13420 PURCHASE 12 13420 PURCHASE 60 13420 PURCHASE 60 13420 PURCHASE 61 13420 PURCHASE 61 13420 PURCHASE 100 13420 PURCHASE 161 13420 PURCHASE 200 13420 PURCHASE 254 13420 PURCHASE 100 13421 PURCHASE 207 13424 PURCHASE 189 13427 SALE 888 13428 PURCHASE 10 13428 PURCHASE 533 13428 PURCHASE 7 13430 PURCHASE 7 13430 PURCHASE 12 13430 PURCHASE 60 13430 PURCHASE 61 13430 PURCHASE 188 13430 PURCHASE 387 13430 SALE 500 13431 SALE 36 13431 SALE 7 13431 SALE 2 13431 SALE 583 13435 SALE 286 13435 SALE 29 13435 PURCHASE 6 13435 PURCHASE 234 13435 SALE 500 13436 SALE 35 13436 PURCHASE 33 13438 PURCHASE 60 13438 PURCHASE 61 13438 PURCHASE 109 13438 SALE 401 13444 SALE 39 13444 SALE 12 13444 SALE 2 13444 SALE 1000 13450 SALE 521 13450 PURCHASE 2 13457 PURCHASE 300 13457 SALE 113 13460 PURCHASE 173 13465 PURCHASE 1072 13468 SALE 36 13472 SALE 29 13472 SALE 28 13472 PURCHASE 166 13472 SALE 335 13475 SALE 8 13475 PURCHASE 45 13476 PURCHASE 88 13476 PURCHASE 585 13476 PURCHASE 61 13480 PURCHASE 61 13480 PURCHASE 384 13480 PURCHASE 936 13480 PURCHASE 32 13482 PURCHASE 162 13482 PURCHASE 408 13482 PURCHASE 28 13484 PURCHASE 204 13484 PURCHASE 641 13484 PURCHASE 1 13485 PURCHASE 1 13485 PURCHASE 2 13485 PURCHASE 2 13485 PURCHASE 3 13485 PURCHASE 4 13485 PURCHASE 5 13485 PURCHASE 11 13485 PURCHASE 11 13485 PURCHASE 300 13485 PURCHASE 492 13485 PURCHASE 559 13488 SALE 288 13489 SALE 176 13489 SALE 37 13489 PURCHASE 1 13489 PURCHASE 7 13489 PURCHASE 52 13489 PURCHASE 60 13489 PURCHASE 61 13489 PURCHASE 78 13489 PURCHASE 352 13489 PURCHASE 374 13489 SALE 492 13491 SALE 1 13491 PURCHASE 36 13492 PURCHASE 85 13492 PURCHASE 200 13492 PURCHASE 6 13493 PURCHASE 57 13493 PURCHASE 61 13493 PURCHASE 117 13493 PURCHASE 150 13493 PURCHASE 175 13493 PURCHASE 186 13493 PURCHASE 1281 13493 SALE 120 13495 SALE 585 13497 SALE 96 13497 SALE 61 13498 SALE 57 13498 SALE 171 13499 SALE 68 13499 SALE 53 13499 SALE 23 13499 SALE 11 13499 SALE 5 13499 PURCHASE 904 13499 SALE 464 13500 SALE 433 13500 SALE 292 13500 SALE 265 13500 SALE 250 13500 SALE 178 13500 SALE 115 13500 SALE 26 13500 SALE 3 13500 SALE 2 13500 PURCHASE 7 13500 PURCHASE 384 13500 SALE 194 13502 SALE 27 13502 SALE 1 13502 PURCHASE 124 13502 PURCHASE 4 13504 PURCHASE 5 13504 PURCHASE 9 13504 PURCHASE 9 13504 PURCHASE 60 13504 PURCHASE 61 13504 PURCHASE 379 13504 SALE 370 13505 SALE 150 13505 SALE 39820 13506.86755 PURCHASE 39820 13506.86755 PURCHASE 236 13507 SALE 199 13508 SALE 12 13508 SALE 200 13510 SALE 59 13510 SALE 40040 13512.6511 PURCHASE 40040 13512.6511 SALE 250 13514 PURCHASE 200 13518 PURCHASE 1012 13519 PURCHASE 8 13520 PURCHASE 8 13520 PURCHASE 8 13520 PURCHASE 26 13520 PURCHASE 60 13520 PURCHASE 61 13520 PURCHASE 61 13520 PURCHASE 169 13520 PURCHASE 304 13520 PURCHASE 340 13520 PURCHASE 1275 13520 PURCHASE 1365 13520 SALE 231 13521 SALE 185 13523 SALE 49 13523 SALE 22 13523 SALE 1 13523 SALE 686 13524 SALE 250 13524 SALE 37 13524 PURCHASE 187 13524 SALE 171 13525 SALE 42 13525 PURCHASE 61 13525 SALE 638 13527 SALE 214 13527 SALE 123 13527 SALE 15 13527 SALE 6 13527 SALE 83 13530 SALE 32 13530 SALE 27 13530 SALE 424 13531 SALE 100 13531 SALE 51 13531 SALE 30 13531 SALE 29 13531 SALE 500 13532 SALE 289 13532 SALE 103 13532 SALE 83 13532 SALE 20 13532 SALE 15 13532 SALE 137 13534 SALE 20 13534 PURCHASE 2 13534 SALE 634 13535 SALE 267 13535 SALE 203 13535 SALE 86 13535 SALE 21 13535 SALE 84 13542 SALE 34 13542 SALE 501 13543 SALE 260 13543 SALE 221 13543 SALE 4 13543 PURCHASE 400 13544 SALE 360 13545 SALE 93 13547 SALE 118 13549 SALE 37 13549 SALE 36 13549 SALE 33 13549 SALE 139 13550 SALE 36 13550 PURCHASE 500 13550 SALE 685 13551 SALE 508 13553 SALE 740 13557 SALE 83 13557 SALE 54 13558 SALE 36 13558 SALE 34 13558 SALE 100 13560 SALE 88 13560 SALE 37 13560 SALE 210 13569 SALE 300 13570 SALE 453 13571 SALE 39 13571 PURCHASE 218 13571 PURCHASE 65 13573 PURCHASE 435 13573 PURCHASE 100 13575 PURCHASE 227 13575 SALE 633 13576 SALE 34 13576 PURCHASE 100 13576 PURCHASE 364 13576 PURCHASE 398 13578 PURCHASE 3 13579 PURCHASE 6 13579 PURCHASE 38 13579 PURCHASE 272 13579 SALE 50 13580 SALE 41 13580 SALE 20 13580 PURCHASE 40 13581 PURCHASE 200 13581 PURCHASE 377 13581 PURCHASE 400 13581 PURCHASE 1000 13582 SALE 1840 13585 SALE 1500 13585 SALE 39 13585 SALE 6 13585 PURCHASE 529 13586 PURCHASE 60 13587 PURCHASE 61 13587 PURCHASE 171 13587 PURCHASE 722 13587 PURCHASE 77 13590 PURCHASE 1005 13590 PURCHASE 171 13591 SALE 293 13646 SALE 36 13649 SALE 95 13650 PURCHASE 1831 13652 SALE 200 13653 SALE 79 13664 PURCHASE 1000 13666 PURCHASE 200 13670 SALE 33 13671 SALE 5 13671 SALE 351 13673 SALE 36 13675 SALE 5 13675 SALE 355 13680 SALE 167 13680 SALE 73 13680 SALE 13 13680 SALE 348 13681 SALE 100 13681 SALE 74 13681 SALE 37 13681 SALE 36 13681 SALE 184 13683 SALE 179 13683 SALE 36 13683 SALE 4 13683 SALE 200 13685 SALE 100 13685 SALE 100 13685 SALE 50 13685 PURCHASE 296 13686 SALE 337 13687 SALE 105 13687 SALE 100 13687 SALE 339 13689 PURCHASE 22 13690 PURCHASE 1054 13690 SALE 699 13699 SALE 244 13699 SALE 119 13699 TOTAL PURCHASES 119,680 TOTAL SALES 119,900 (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 FEBRUARY 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