RPS GROUP Plc ("RPS" or "the Group")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

As a result of transactions on 29 September 2006 by the RPS Group Plc Share Incentive Plan (an Inland Revenue approved all employee share purchase plan), the executive directors of the Company and persons discharging management responsibility have the following interests as a result of their personal participation in the Plan:

24 October 2006

RPS is an international consultancy providing advice upon the development of natural resources, land and property, the management of the environment and the health and safety of people. We trade in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, North America and Australia and undertake projects in many other parts of the world.

Goodbody is one of Ireland's largest stockbroking firms and is a wholly owned subsidiary of AIB Capital Markets, a division of AIB Group Plc.

Matching
Shares
purchased
on 29
September
2006 £2.32
per share
Matching
Shares
purchased
on 29
September 2006 £2.32
per share
Total Number of Partnership, Matching and Dividend shares
held on 29 September
2006
Andrew Troup
Gary Young
April Rigby
21
54
54
21
54
54
1,446
3,618
3,618

The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the directors in three years time subject to continued employment and the retention of the underlying Partnership Shares.