The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1083

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

29th March 2007

Laid before Parliament

30th March 2007

Coming into force

20th April 2007

The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 21(5) and (6) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(1):

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 20th April 2007.

Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005

2.  For Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005(2) (certain investment exchanges operating relevant EEA markets) substitute—

“Part 2 Certain Investment Exchanges Operating Relevant EEA Markets

• Aktietorget I Norden (Sweden).

• Amsterdam Options Exchange (Netherlands).

• Athens Stock Exchange (Greece).

• Athens Derivative Exchange (Greece).

• Barcelona Stock Exchange (Spain).

• Bavarian Stock Exchange (Germany).

• Belgian Secondary Market for Treasury Certificates (Belgium).

• Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange (Germany).

• Bilbao Stock Exchange (Spain).

• Böag Borsen AG (Germany).

• Bratislava Stock Exchange (Slovakia).

• Bucharest Stock Exchange (Romania).

• Budapest Stock Exchange (Hungary).

• Bulgaria Stock Exchange (Bulgaria).

• Copenhagen Stock Exchange (Denmark).

• Cyprus Stock Exchange (Cyprus).

• Danish Authorised Market Place (Denmark).

• Dusseldorf Stock Market (Germany).

• EDX (UK).

• Eurex Deutschland (Germany).

• Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands).

• Euronext Brussels (Belgium).

• Euronext Lisbon (Portugal).

• Euronext Paris (France).

• Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).

• Helsinki Stock Exchange and Securities and Derivatives Exchange (Finland).

• Irish Stock Exchange (Ireland).

• Italian and Foreign Government Bonds Market (Italy).

• Italian Stock Exchange (Italy).

• Ljubliana Stock Exchange (Slovenia).

• London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (UK).

• London Stock Exchange (UK).

• Luxembourg Stock Exchange (Luxembourg).

• Madrid Stock Exchange (Spain)

• Malta Stock Exchange (Malta).

• Market for Public Debt (Spain).

• MEFF Renta Variable Futures Options Exchange (Spain).

• MEFF Renta Fija Equity Futures Exchange (Spain).

• MTS Italy (Italy).

• MTS Poland (Poland).

• MTS Portugal (Portugal).

• National Stock Exchange of Lithuania (Lithuania).

• Nordic Growth Market (Sweden).

• PLUS (UK).

• Prague Stock Exchange (Czech Republic).

• Riga Stock Exchange (Latvia).

• ShareMark (UK).

• Stockholm Stock Exchange (Sweden).

• Stuttgart Stock Exchange (Germany).

• Tallinn Stock Exchange (Estonia).

• Valencia Stock Exchange (Spain).

• Vienna Stock Exchange (Austria).

• Virt-x (UK).

• Warsaw Stock Exchange (Poland).”.

Claire Ward

Kevin Brennan

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

29th March 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1529) (“the 2005 Order”) to update the list of investment exchanges operating relevant EEA Markets. An investment exchange specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3 is a “relevant market” for the purposes of articles 37, 41, 67 and 69 of the 2005 Order and a “relevant EEA market” for the purpose of article 68 of the 2005 Order.

(1)

2000 c. 8

(2)

S.I. 2005/1529, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.