The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Amendment of regulation 2

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “directive restrictions”—

(i) for “article 25 of the investment services directive” substitute “articles 54 and 58 of the markets in financial instruments directive”;

(ii) omit “, article 107 of the listing particulars directive”;

(b) in the definition of “EEA competent authority” omit “, or the listing particulars directive”;

(c) omit the definition of “listing particulars directive”;

(d) after the definition of “former regulated person” insert—

““markets in financial instruments directive information” means confidential information received by the Authority in the course of discharging its functions as an EEA competent authority under the markets in financial instruments directive;”;

(e) in the definition of “single market directive information” after “single market directives” insert “(except for the markets in financial instruments directive)”.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/3624, 2003/693, 1473 and 2066, and 2004/1862 and 3379.