Notification of managers' and their closely associated persons' transactions as of 3 July 2016

Metsä Board managers and their closely associated persons referred to in the Market Abuse Regulation ((EU) No 596/2014, "MAR") are requested to follow the below instructions for notifying transactions as of 3 July 2016:

Such notifications shall be made to Metsä Board and the FIN-FSA promptly and no later than three (3) business days after the date of the transaction!

Instructions for filling the transaction notification form

1. Please fill in the transaction form

The form is available at Financial Supervisory Authority's (Finanssivalvonta) web pages under the heading Liiketoimien ilmoittaminen Finanssivalvonnalle. Click here to see the forms.
Information needed on the form:


Metsä Board's LEI-code	743700KKB8Q035K38488
Shortnames of Metsä Board shares	METSA (A share) METSB (B share)
ISIN codes of Metsä Board shares	FI0009000640 (A share) FI0009000665 (B share)
Notification reference	Generated automatically (no need to fill in)

2. Please send the filled form attached to an e-mail to the Company and the Financial Supervisory Authority promptly after the date of the transaction

Do not send the form by post because of the short time frame (3 business days)!
The filled form attached to an e-mail is sent to the Company and the Financial Supervisory Authority as follows:

Sending to the Financial Supervisory Authority:

Go to https://securemail.bof.fi and send the form as a secured e-mail to johdonkaupat@finanssivalvonta.fi

Sending to Metsä Board:

Send the form attached to an e-mail to insidermetsaboard@metsagroup.com
Please also add your phone number to the e-mail message so that we can contact you if Metsä Board has questions about the notification.

In case of any problems, please contact insidermetsaboard@metsagroup.com.

Metsä Board publishes the notification it has received in a stock exchange release within the same timeframe.

As of 3 July 2016, published notifications of transactions by managers and their closely associated persons can be found in our Newsroom.

Further information on the regulation concerning the notifications of managers' and their closely associated persons' transactions is available at, for example, https://www.finanssivalvonta.fi/en/capital-markets/issuers-and-investors/market-abuse-regulation/.

The file description for managers' and their closely associated persons' transactions is available here (in Finnish).