Article 12 Post-trade transparency obligations(Article 6(1) and Article 20(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014)

Market operators and investment firms operating a trading venue and investment firms trading outside the rules of a trading venue shall make public the details of each transaction by applying reference Tables 2, 3 and 4 of Annex I.

Where a previously published trade report is cancelled, investment firms trading outside a trading venue and market operators and investment firms operating a trading venue shall make public a new trade report which contains all the details of the original trade report and the cancellation flag specified in Table 4 of Annex I.

Where a previously published trade report is amended, market operators and investment firms operating a trading venue and investment firms trading outside a trading venue shall make the following information public:

1. (a)

   a new trade report that contains all the details of the original trade report and the cancellation flag specified in Table 4 of Annex I;

2. (b)

   a new trade report that contains all the details of the original trade report with all necessary details corrected and the amendment flag specified in Table 4 of Annex I.

Where a transaction between two investment firms is concluded outside the rules of a trading venue, either on own account or on behalf of clients, only the investment firm that sells the financial instrument concerned shall make the transaction public through an APA.

By way of derogation from paragraph 4, where only one of the investment firms party to the transaction is a systematic internaliser in the given financial instrument and it is acting as the buying firm, only that firm shall make the transaction public through an APA, informing the seller of the action taken.

Investment firms shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the transaction is made public as a single transaction. For that purpose, two matching trades entered at the same time and for the same price with a single party interposed shall be considered to be a single transaction.