Post -effective Amendment No.1

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


 

Biacore International AB (publ)

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Kingdom of Sweden   N/A

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

Biacore International SA, Puits-Godet 12, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 


 

Biacore Stock Option Plan 2002

(Full title of the plan)

 


 

CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10011

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

212 590-9330

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 



DEREGISTRATION

 

On September 24, 2002, Biacore International AB (publ) (the “Company”) filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-100074) (the “Registration Statement”), to register 80,000 ordinary shares in the Company, with a nominal value of SEK 10 each. There have been no sales under the Registration Statement during fiscal year 2004. In connection with its termination of registration and suspension of periodic reporting through its filing of a Form 15, the Company hereby deregisters all remaining unsold shares covered by the Registration Statement.


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-100074 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland on December 29, 2004.

 

Biacore International AB (publ)

(Registrant)

By:

 

/s/ Lars-Olov Forslund


Name:

 

Lars-Olov Forslund

Title:

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

(Signature)


  

(Title)


 

(Date)


                *


   Chairman of the Board   12/29/2004

Lars-Göran Andrén

        

                *


  

Deputy Chairman of the Board

and Authorized Representative in the

United States

  12/29/2004

Donald R. Parfet

      
        

                *


   Board Member   12/29/2004

Gordon Edge

        

                *


   Board Member   12/29/2004

Mats Pettersson

        

 


   Board Member    

Tom Erixon

        

 


   Board Member    

Marc Van Regenmortel

        

 


   Board Member    

Donna Janson

        

 


   Board Member    

Anna Hansson

        


/s/ Markku Hämäläinen


   Board Member   12/29/2004

Markku Hämäläinen

        

/s/ Erik Walldén


  

President and Chief Executive

Officer

  12/29/2004

Erik Walldén

      

/s/ Lars-Olov Forslund


   Chief Financial Officer   12/29/2004

Lars-Olov Forslund

        

                *


   Chief Accounting Officer   12/29/2004

Gunnar Tegendal

        

* Lars-Olov Forslund, by signing his name hereto, does sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-100074, pursuant to powers of attorney previously filed in the S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-100074.

 

/s/ Lars-Olov Forslund


             December 29, 2004
Lars-Olov Forslund, Attorney in Fact