At an Extraordinary General Meeting held earlier today, the shareholders of BAE Systems
passed a resolution approving the disposal of BAE Systems’ entire interest in Airbus.

As a result, BAE Systems expects completion of the disposal to take place not later than 14
October 2006, in accordance with the Shareholders’ Agreement between BAE Systems,
EADS and Airbus.

The voting on the resolution was as follows:

Votes for	% Votes for	Votes against	Total votes cast	Votes withheld
2,324,159,041	99.85	3,400,491	2,327,559,532	2,042,805

The resolution was passed.

Terms defined in this announcement have the same meanings as set out in the circular dated
11 September 2006.

[Note: A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of
votes "for" and "against" a resolution. The “percentage of votes for” column above is rounded to two
decimal places].