The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001

[F1 Chapter 15E U.K. Specified Benchmarks

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 15E inserted (2.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/655), arts. 1, 5

The activities U.K.

Specified benchmarks U.K.

63O.— (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 services U.K.

63P.   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 FCA U.K.

63Q.— (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.

Schedule U.K.

63R.   Schedule 5 specifies benchmarks for the purposes of section 22(1A)(b) of the Act.]

[F2 Administering a benchmark U.K.

63S.— (1) Administering a benchmark is a specified kind of activity.

(2) In paragraph (1) “administering a benchmark” means acting as an administrator of a benchmark within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation EU 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds and amending Directives 2008/48/EC and 2014/17/EU and Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 .

Textual Amendments

F2 Arts. 63S, 63T inserted (27.2.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/135), regs. 1(2), 51 (with Pt. 7)

Administration of a benchmark by the FCA U.K.

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

Textual Amendments

F2 Arts. 63S, 63T inserted (27.2.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/135), regs. 1(2), 51 (with Pt. 7)