Doc re. Compliance with Market Abuse Regualtion

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC

24 October 2016

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC ("the Company")

Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation

The Company announces that it is satisfied that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have, in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results in respect of the financial year ended 30 September 2016, has previously been published or notified via a regulatory information service. Therefore the Company is not prohibited from dealing in its own securities.

If, in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results, the Directors of the Company come into possession of any inside information, this will be notified to an RIS before any such transactions are undertaken.

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