Press Release: Market abuse: Commission adopts first implementing measures

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Series Details IP/04/16 (7.1.04)
Publication Date 07/01/2004
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The European Commission has adopted three implementing measures related to the Directive on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse - 2003/6/EC). These implementing measures cover, among other things, detailed criteria for determining what constitutes inside information, which non-exhaustive factors have to be examined when assessing possible market manipulation, as well as provisions on how and when issuers must disclose inside information. They also set out standards for the fair presentation of investment recommendations (including the disclosure of conflicts of interest). Finally, they set out conditions for benefiting from exemptions from the prohibitions of market abuse in the case of share buy-back programmes and price stabilisation of financial instruments. These implementing measures are the first to be drawn up under the new procedure for deciding and applying securities legislation agreed by the European Council in March 2001 and endorsed by the European Parliament in February 2002 (see Related URL 1).

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