Aspo - Notice to convene extr.general meeting

INVITATION TO THE ASPO EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING

ASPO Plc               STOCK EXCHANGE BULLETIN        13.5.2009 at
09:30 a.m.

The Board of Directors of Aspo Plc has decided to convene an
Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting to be held on Monday, June 8,
2009 at 10:00 a.m. at the Auditorium of Lindström Building,
Lautatarhankatu 6, FI-00580 Helsinki, Finland. The Extraordinary
Shareholders' Meeting will be convened to decide on authorizing the
Board of Directors to resolve on the issue of shares and special
rights entitling to shares as referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 in
the Companies Act. This authorization shall not supersede the
authorization to a share issue given to the Board of Directors by the
Annual Shareholders' Meeting on 31 March 2009 which will be executed
by transferring own shares held by the Company. The Board of
Directors of Aspo Plc has decided to survey possibilities to issue a
convertible capital loan directed to a limited group of investors for
which this authorization would be used.

The invitation to the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting has been
attached to this release in its entirety.

ASPO Plc

Board of Directors

For more information, please contact
Aki Ojanen, tel. +358 9 7595 363, +358 400 106 592
aki.ojanen@aspo.fi

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ENCL: INVITATION TO THE ASPO EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING

The shareholders of Aspo Plc are invited to attend the Extraordinary
Shareholders' Meeting to be held on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:00
a.m. at the Auditorium of Lindström Building, Lautatarhankatu 6,
FI-00580 Helsinki, Finland.

MATTERS ON THE AGENDA OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING

1.    Opening of the meeting

2.    Calling the meeting to order

3.    Election of persons to confirm the minutes and to supervise the
counting of votes

4.    Recording the legality of the meeting

5.    Recording the attendance at the meeting and adopting the list
of votes

6.    Authorizing the Board of Directors to resolve on the issue of
shares and special rights entitling to shares

The Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting authorize the Board of Directors to resolve on the issue of
shares and other special rights entitling to shares as referred to in
Chapter 10, Section 1 in the Companies Act. A maximum of 2,600,000
shares may be issued based on the authorization. The authorization
would be used to issue a convertible capital loan directed to a
limited group of investors.

The authorization shall not supersede the authorization to a share
issue given to the Board of Directors by the Annual Shareholders'
Meeting on March 31, 2009.

7.    Closing of the meeting

EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING DOCUMENTS

This invitation including in their entirety the above proposal of the
Board of Directors on the agenda of the Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting, as well as other documents required by the Finnish Companies
Act, are available as of May 15, 2009 on company's website
www.aspo.com/investors. The proposal of the Board of Directors and
the other documents required by the Finnish Companies Act are also
available at the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting and copies of
them and this notice of the meeting will be sent to shareholders upon
request.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS TO THE MEETING

Right to participate

The right to attend to the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting is
restricted to those shareholders who, on May 29, 2009, are recorded
as shareholders in the company's shareholder register. A shareholder
whose shares have been entered into his/her personal book-entry
account is registered into the company's shareholder register.

REGISTRATION

Shareholders wishing to attend the Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting must notify the company by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3,
2009 at the latest either in writing at the address: Aspo Plc, P.O.
Box 17, FI-00581 Helsinki, Finland, or by telephone at +358 9 759
5368 or by fax at +358 9 759 5301 or by email to
ilmoittautuminen@aspo.fi. In connection with the registration a
shareholder shall give his/her name, personal identification number
or business ID, telephone number and the name of a possible
accompanying assistant. Personal information given by shareholders
will only be used in connection with the Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting and the processing of the necessary related registrations.

A shareholder may attend the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting and
exercise his/her rights at the meeting by way of proxy
representation. A proxy representative shall produce a dated proxy
document or otherwise in a reliable manner demonstrate his/her right
to represent the shareholder. Any proxy documents should be sent to
the company before the last date for registration.

A shareholder attending the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting has
the right to present questions about matters handled at the meeting
in accordance with section 25, chapter 5 of the Limited Liability
Companies Act.

Holder of a nominee registered share

A holder of nominee registered shares who wishes to attend the
Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting must be registered in the
company's shareholder register on the Extraordinary Shareholders'
Meeting's record date May 29, 2009.

The holder of a nominee registered share is advised to request from
his/her asset manager the necessary instructions concerning
registration in the shareholder register, issuing proxy documents and
registering for the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting.

Other information

Aspo Plc has on the date of this invitation to the Extraordinary
Shareholders' Meeting, May 13, 2009 a total of 26,406,063 shares andvotes.

Helsinki, May 13, 2009

ASPO Plc
Board of Directors