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Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive (MiFID)
DIRECTIVE 2004/39/EC
Article 7
Procedures for granting and refusing requests for authorization
1. The competent authority shall not grant authorization
unless and until such time as it is fully satisfied that the
applicant complies with all requirements under the provisions
adopted pursuant to this Directive.
2. The investment firm shall provide all information, including a
programme of operations setting out inter alia the types of
business envisaged and the organisational structure, necessary to
enable the competent authority to satisfy itself that the
investment firm has established, at the time of initial
authorisation, all the necessary arrangements to meet its
obligations under the provisions of this Chapter.
3. An applicant shall be informed, within six months of the
submission of a complete application, whether or not authorization
has been granted.
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