PART 3AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

Amendment of the Principal Order4

The Principal Order is amended as follows.

Specified benchmarks5

After article 63N5 insert—

CHAPTER 15ESPECIFIED BENCHMARKS

The activities

Specified benchmarks63O

1

The following are specified kinds of activity—

a

providing information in relation to a specified benchmark;

b

administering a specified benchmark.

2

In this Chapter—

a

“providing information” in relation to a specified benchmark means providing any information or expression of opinion that is—

i

provided to, or for the purpose of passing to, a person who has permission to carry on the activity specified in paragraph (1)(b) in relation to that specified benchmark;

ii

required in connection with the determination of the specified benchmark; and

iii

provided for the purpose of determining the specified benchmark;

b

“administering” a specified benchmark means—

i

administering the arrangements for determining a specified benchmark;

ii

collecting, analysing or processing information or expressions of opinion provided for the purpose of determining a specified benchmark;

iii

determining a specified benchmark through the application of a formula or other method of calculation to the information or expressions of opinion provided for that purpose.

Publicly available factual data and subscription services63P

A person does not carry on an activity of the kind specified by article 63O(1)(a) in relation to a specified benchmark where the information provided—

a

consists solely of factual data obtained from a publicly available source; or

b

is—

i

compiled by a subscription service for purposes other than in connection with the determination of a specified benchmark;

ii

provided to a person who has permission to carry on an activity of the kind specified by article 63O(1)(b) and who is a subscriber to the service; and

iii

provided to such a person only in that person’s capacity as a subscriber.

Administration of a specified benchmark by the FCA63Q

1

The FCA does not carry on the activity of the kind specified by article 63O(1)(b) in relation to a specified benchmark where the FCA administers the specified benchmark itself.

2

Where a specified benchmark is administered by the FCA, the reference in article 63O(2)(a)(i) to a person who has permission to carry on the activity specified in 63O(1)(b) in relation to that specified benchmark is to be read as referring to the FCA.

Schedule63R

Schedule 5 specifies benchmarks for the purposes of section 22(1A)(b) of the Act.

Schedule6

After Schedule 4, insert—

SCHEDULE 5SPECIFIED BENCHMARKS

Article 63R

The following benchmarks are specified:

1

The benchmarks that are known as the London Interbank Offered Rate, also known as LIBOR.