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Preamble

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Directive 2002/92/EC and Directive 2011/61/EU, and in particular Article 58(7) thereof,

Whereas:

  1. (1)

    In order to bring greater transparency to markets in commodity derivatives, emission allowances and derivatives thereof, market operators and investment firms operating a trading venue on which these financial instruments are traded should make public a weekly report showing the aggregate number of persons holding the contract and the total open position for each commodity derivative, emission allowance or derivative thereof which exceeds the thresholds specified in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/591 with regard to regulatory technical standards for the application of position limits to commodity derivatives and communicate that report to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

  2. (2)

    Timely submission of reports previously published by the respective trading venues within a clear and common deadline facilitates the weekly centralised publication by ESMA of those reports from across the Union.

  3. (3)

    For reasons of consistency and in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the financial markets, it is necessary that the provisions laid down in this Regulation and the provisions laid down in Directive 2014/65/EU apply from the same date.

  4. (4)

    This Regulation is based on the draft implementing technical standards submitted by the ESMA to the Commission.

  5. (5)

    ESMA has conducted open public consultations on the draft implementing technical standards on which this Regulation is based, analysed the potential related costs and benefits and requested the opinion of the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group established by Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article -2 Application

This Regulation applies to operators of ‘UK trading venues’ as defined by article 2(1)(16A) of Regulation 600/2014/EU.

Article -1 Interpretation

  1. (1)

    Where a term is defined in Directive 2014/65/EU that definition shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation except where (2) applies.

  2. (2)

    Where it is defined in article 2 of Regulation 600/2014/EU, as amended by the Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, that definition shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation.

  3. (3)

    Article 2(1)(62) of Regulation 600/2014/EU shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation.

Article 1 Reporting deadlines

Market operators and investment firms operating trading venues shall send the competent authority the weekly report referred to in point (a) of that Article regarding the aggregate positions held at the close of business of each week no later than Wednesday 17.30 CET of the following week.

Where either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of the week in which that report is to be submitted is not a working day for the market operator or investment firm referred to in the first paragraph, that market operator or investment firm shall submit the report as soon as possible and no later than Thursday 17.30 CET of that week.

Article 2 Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 3 January 2018.

Signature

Done at Brussels, 6 June 2017.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER