EAC completes "Safe Harbour" share buyback programme - Announcement number 22/2007

EAC completes the "Safe Harbour" share buyback programme initiated
via Stock Exchange announcement No. 11 of 16 August, 2007.

EAC has made the following transactions under the programme since the
Stock Exchange announcement of 5 November, 2007:


                                Average purchase Transaction value,
      Date        No. of shares    price, DKK    DKK
Accumulated, last
announcement          1,220,875           389.80          475,897,438
   05.11.2007            23,000           405.26            9,320,980
   06.11.2007            23,000           407.00            9,360,908
   07.11.2007            13,400           404.11            5,415,074
Accumulated
under the
programme:            1,280,275           390.54          499,994,400



Hereafter EAC owns 1,280,275 own shares or 8.52% of the share
capital.

Yours sincerely,

The East Asiatic Company Ltd. A/S
(A/S Det Østasiatiske Kompagni)








             For additional information, please contact:
President & CEO Niels Henrik Jensen, +45 35 25 43 00, +45 20 23 21 88
                        (mobile), nhj@eac.dk
Group CFO Michael Østerlund Madsen, +45 35 25 43 00, +45 20 41 09 57
                        (mobile), mom@eac.dk
                             www.eac.dk

This English version is provided for convenience only and in case of
discrepancy the Danish version shall prevail.