On 24 November 2022, the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) announced that it has updated its REMIT data reporting guidance.
Following extensive consultation with stakeholders launched in June 2022 that aimed to improve REMIT data reporting, ACER had published:
On 18 November 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a report on the administrative and criminal sanctions and other administrative measures imposed under the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) in 2021.
Article 33 of MAR obliges ESMA to publish an annual report with aggregated information of all penalties and
On 18 October 2022, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that they are strengthening their cooperation to further improve information exchange and avoid potential market abuse in Europe’s spot and derivative markets.
Henceforth, ACER and ESMA have announced
On 18 October 2022, there was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1959 of 13 July 2022 supplementing the Market Abuse Regulation with regards to regulatory technical standards setting out a contractual template for liquidity contracts for the shares of issuers whose financial instruments are
On 23 September 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated their Q&As on the Market Abuse Regulation.
The following have been updated under the section concerning the disclosure of inside information:
On 14 July 2022, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1210 of 13 July 2022 laying down implementing technical standards for the application of the Market Abuse Regulation with regard to the format of insider lists and their updates. The Implementing Regulation enters into force on
On 13 July 2022, the European Commission published a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) setting out a contractual template for liquidity contracts for the shares of issuers whose financial instruments are admitted to trading on an SME growth market together with an annex.
The
On 23 June 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Q&As on the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
The ESMA has added a new answer concerning the scope of Article 11(1a) of the MAR. Specifically, the answer covers whether the scope of Article 11(1a) is limited to the communication of information to potential
On 3 May 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued two opinions regarding the European Commission’s proposed amendments to the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on liquidity contracts for SME Growth Market issuers and the implementing technical standards (ITS) on insider lists. The draft RTS and ITS were initially adopted by the ESMA in
On 13 April 2022, there was published the official translations of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s guidelines concerning delay in the disclosure of inside information and interactions with prudential supervision. The official translations can be accessed on this link and then click the blue ‘i’ in the ‘Info’ column. The guidelines apply 2 months