RNS Number:3948I
Osmetech PLC
06 March 2003


                          Osmetech plc ("the Company")

                                 Block Listing

The Company has today applied for 30,000,000 ordinary shares of 1p each
("Ordinary Shares) to be admitted to trading on AIM under a block admission. The
block admission relates to Ordinary Shares which could be issued as follows:


30,000,000 Ordinary Shares under the Osmetech plc Enterprise Management
Incentive Plan.


It is expected that the block admission will become effective on 11 March 2003.


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