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Barclays PLC

29 October 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:				28 Oct 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:			4,362,010	4.39%	629,385	0.63%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			596,821	0.60%	4,308,622	4.33%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			4,958,831	4.99%	4,938,007	4.97%
(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		34,674		41.0600  GBP	41.0200  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		21,893		41.0603  GBP	41.0171  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		3,052	41.0171  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		196	41.0179  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		6,073	41.0200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		19	41.0231  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,890	41.0254  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		67	41.0256  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		29	41.0293  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,200	41.0328  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,448	41.0371  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		903	41.0393  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,303	41.0396  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,065	41.0463  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		124	41.0491  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		10,439	41.0200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		765	41.0228  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		112	41.0347  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		18	41.0432  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,969	41.0472  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,605	41.0474  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4,147	41.0524  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,035	41.0529  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,468	41.0539  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		457	41.0550  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,008	41.0574  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,230	41.0600  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:				29 Oct 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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