Starting  with  August 1, 2004, the Riga Stock Exchange listed equities

and fund units will have new exchange trading codes. 



The new exchange trading codes (tickers) are introduced in anticipation

of  migration  to  securities  trading  in Latvia and Estonia to SAXESS

trading  system  at  the  end of September. This will be the first step

towards  an  integrated Nordic and Baltic securities market, with seven

stock  exchanges from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Latvia

and Estonia sharing a common trading platform, and Lithuania to join in

2005.



Starting  with  August  1,  the  new  exchange trading codes of the RSE

listed  shares  and  fund units will consist of five symbols, following

the  same  principle  as  in Tallinn and Helsinki. For shares the first

three  symbols  will  be  an  abbreviation  of  the  issuer's name (for

example,  LSC  will  stand  for  Latvian Shipping Company), whereas the

fourth  symbol  will  be the securities serial code. Currently all Riga

Stock Exchange listed shares have one public issue each, so this symbol

will  be  1;  any subsequent issues will have symbols 2, 3 etc. In case

shares  in  the issue prospectus have been described as, for example, A

and  B series shares, the fourth symbol will be A or B, instead of 1 or

2.  The  fifth  symbol  will be letter R, standing for Riga - the stock

exchange where the security is listed. Thus, for example, from August 1

the new ticker for Latvian Shipping Company will be LSC1R.



Similar  to  equities,  the fund unit tickers will have the first three

symbols  from  abbreviated  name. The fourth symbol will be F, standing

for fund unit, and the fifth will be R, standing for Riga.



Riga  Stock  Exchange  listed  debt securities will retain the previous

exchange trading codes.





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|                      Issuer name                      |ISIN code   |Exchange trading code|Exchange trading code|

|                                                       |            |as of today          |   from 01.08.2004   |

|Main list                                                                                                       |

|Latvijas Gāze                                          |LV0000100899|        GAZE         |        GZE1R        |

|Latvijas kuģniecība                                    |LV0000101103|        LASCO        |        LSC1R        |

|SAF Tehnika                                            |LV0000101129|         SAF         |        SAF1R        |

|Ventspils nafta                                        |LV0000100816|        VNFT         |        VNF1R        |

|Second List                                                                                                     |

|Latvijas balzams                                       |LV0000100808|        BALZ         |        BAL1R        |

|Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca                              |LV0000100212|        DPKR         |        DPK1R        |

|Grindeks                                               |LV0000100659|        GRDX         |        GRD1R        |

|Liepājas metalurgs                                     |LV0000100535|        LMET         |        LME1R        |

|Olaines ķīmiski - farmaceitiskā rūpnīca                |LV0000100501|        OLFA         |        OLF1R        |

|Rīgas kuģu būvētava                                    |LV0000100378|        RKBV         |        RKB1R        |

|Rīgas Transporta flote                                 |LV0000100345|        RTFL         |        RTF1R        |

|Valmieras stikla šķiedra                               |LV0000100485|        VLSS         |        VSS1R        |

|Free List                                                                                                       |

|Baloži                                                 |LV0000100709|        BLZI         |        BLZ1R        |

|Rīgas farmaceitiskā fabrika                            |LV0000100782|        FARM         |        FRM1R        |

|Grobiņa                                                |LV0000100527|        GRZV         |        GRZ1R        |

|Kurzemes atslēga 1                                     |LV0000100402|        KRA1         |        KA11R        |

|Kvadra Pak                                             |LV0000100717|        KVDR         |        KVD1R        |

|Liepājas autobusu parks                                |LV0000100907|        LATP         |        LAP1R        |

|Latvijas Jūras medicīnas centrs                        |LV0000100741|        LJMC         |        LJM1R        |

|Lode                                                   |LV0000100428|        LODE         |        LOD1R        |

|Lokomotīve                                             |LV0000101061|        LOKOM        |        LOK1R        |

|Latvijas tilti                                         |LV0000100311|        LTTL         |        LTT1R        |

|NORD/LB Latvija                                        |LV0000101046|        PLKB         |        NLB1R        |

|Ogre                                                   |LV0000100626|        OGRE         |        OGR1R        |

|Rīgas autoelektroaparātu rūpnīca                       |LV0000100881|         RAR         |        RAR1R        |

|Rīgas ostas elevators                                  |LV0000100873|        ROEL         |        ROE1R        |

|Paraugtipogrāfija                                      |LV0000100592|        RPTG         |        RPT1R        |

|Rīgas raugs                                            |LV0000100055|        RAUG         |        RRA1R        |

|VEF Radiotehnika-RRR                                   |LV0000100972|         RRR         |        RRR1R        |

|Rīgas starptautiskā autoosta                           |LV0000101020|        RSAU         |        RSA1R        |

|Rīgas Sporta pils                                      |LV0000100832|        RSPP         |        RSP1R        |

|Siguldas ciltslietu un mākslīgās apsēklošanas stacija  |LV0000100600|        SCMA         |        SCM1R        |

|Saldus mežrūpniecība                                   |LV0000100154|        SAMR         |        SMA1R        |

|Strenču mežrūpniecības saimniecība                     |LV0000100071|        STMR         |        SMR1R        |

|Tukuma gaļas pārstrādes sabiedrība                     |LV0000100790|        TGPS         |        TGP1R        |

|VEF                                                    |LV0000101079|         VEF         |        VEF1R        |

|Investment Fund List                                                                                            |

|Baltic Index fonds                                     |LV0000400034|         BIF         |        BINFR        |

|Valsts Obligāciju Fonds                                |LV0000400059|         VOF         |        GOBFR        |

|Latu rezerves fonds                                    |LV0000400067|        LARF         |        LARFR        |

|Naudas Tirgus Fonds                                    |LV0000400018|        NATF         |        NATFR        |

|Parex Latu obligāciju fonds                            |LV0000400091|        PLOF         |        PLOFR        |

|Parex Baltijas Jūras sabalansētais fonds               |LV0000400109|        PBSF         |        PBSFR        |

|Parex Austrumeiropas sabalansētais fonds               |LV0000400174|        PASF         |        PASFR        |

|Parex Austrumeiropas obligāciju fonds                  |LV0000400125|        PAOF         |        PAOFR        |

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Additional information:

Krista Grīntāle

Director of Corporate Communications Department

Riga Stock Exchange

Phone: 371 7212431