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Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive (MiFID)
DIRECTIVE 2004/39/EC
Article 29
Pre-trade transparency requirements for MTFs
1. Member States shall, at least, require that investment firms
and market operators operating an MTF make public current bid and
offer prices and the depth of trading interests at these prices
which are advertised through their systems in respect of shares
admitted to trading on a regulated market.
Member States shall provide for this information to be made
available to the public on reasonable commercial terms and on a
continuous basis during normal trading hours.
2. Member States shall provide for the competent authorities to be
able to waive the obligation for investment firms or market
operators operating an MTF to make public the information referred
to in paragraph 1 based on the market model or the type and size
of orders in the cases defined in accordance with paragraph 3.
In particular, the competent authorities shall be able to waive
the obligation in respect of transactions that are large in scale
compared with normal market size for the share or type of share in
question.
3. In order to ensure the uniform application of paragraphs 1 and
2, the Commission shall, in accordance with the procedure referred
to in Article 64(2) adopt implementing measures as regards:
(a) the range of bid and offers or designated market-maker quotes,
and the depth of trading interest at those prices, to be made
public;
(b) the size or type of orders for which pre-trade disclosure may
be waived under paragraph 2;
(c) the market model for which pre-trade disclosure may be waived
under paragraph 2 and in particular, the applicability of the
obligation to trading methods operated by an MTF which conclude
transactions under their rules by reference to prices established
outside the systems of the MTF or by periodic auction.
Except where justified by the specific nature of the MTF, the
content of these implementing measures shall be equal to that of
the implementing measures provided for in Article 44 for regulated
markets.
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