A Securities Trading Policy has been adopted by the Board that sets-out the requirements prescribed by the Company and at law for all director and employee dealings in securities. It also prescribes the additional share trading restrictions applying to directors, officers, executives and certain employees who may, from time to time, be in possession of price-sensitive information ("specified persons").
Under the terms of the Securities Trading Policy, specified persons are only permitted to trade in securities if they do not possess unannounced, price-sensitive information in relation to the securities and if the trading occurs outside of restricted periods. The restricted periods commence two weeks before and end one day after, the release of the Company’s quarterly, half-yearly and annual reports to the ASX.
Prior to a specified person dealing in the Company’s securities, they must notify and obtain approval from the appropriate authorising officer of the Company, to confirm that there is no reason why the proposed trade should not occur. The notification to the authorising officer must state that the proposed purchase or sale is not as a result of access to, or being in possession of, any price-sensitive information that has not yet been announced to the ASX. The Company will notify the ASX in a timely manner of any transactions conducted by the directors in the securities of the Company.
The Securities Trading Policy is available on the Company’s website.
Whilst I would very much like to see our Directors buying on-market I believe that there are about to be some developments announced out of Germany. Perhaps a little hint on on what those developments might be...