Compliance with Model Code

BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust plc ("the Company") - Listing Rule 15.5.1(4)

In accordance with Listing Rule 15.5.1 (4), the Company announces that it is satisfied that 
all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have to 1 June 2012 has 
previously been published or notified via a regulatory information service(“RIS”). Therefore 
the dealings referred to in Listing Rule 15.5.1(3) are permitted.

The close period to which this relates is in respect of the half year ended 31 May 2012.

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

1 June 2012