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Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive (MiFID)
DIRECTIVE 2004/39/EC
Article 35
Provisions regarding central counterparty, clearing and settlement
arrangements in respect of MTFs
1. Member States shall not prevent investment firms and market
operators operating an MTF from entering into appropriate
arrangements with a central counterparty or clearing house and a
settlement system of another Member State with a view to providing
for the clearing and/or settlement of some or all trades concluded
by market participants under their systems.
2. The competent authority of investment firms and market
operators operating an MTF may not oppose the use of central
counterparty, clearing houses and/or settlement systems in another
Member State except where this is demonstrably necessary in order
to maintain the orderly functioning of that MTF and taking into
account the conditions for settlement systems established in
Article 34(2).
In order to avoid undue duplication of control, the competent
authority shall take into account the oversight/supervision of the
clearing and settlement system already exercised by the national
central banks as overseers of clearing and settlement systems or
by other supervisory authorities with a competence in such
systems.
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