Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1005 of 15 June 2017 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the format and timing of the communications and the publication of the suspension and removal of financial instruments pursuant to Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments (Text with EEA relevance. )

This Regulation sets down the format and timing for the following communications and publications: (a) publication by a market operator operating a regulated market or by an investment firm or a market operator operating an MTF or an OTF of its decision to suspend or remove a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives from trading or to lift a suspension; (b) communication of the decisions referred to in point (a) to the relevant competent authority; (c) publication by a competent authority of its decision to suspend trading or remove from trading a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives or to lift a suspension; (d) communication by a competent authority to ESMA and other competent authorities of the decision to suspend trading or to remove from trading a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives or to lift a suspension; (e) communication by a notified competent authority to ESMA and other competent authorities of its decision on whether to follow a decision as referred to in point (d).

For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘trading venue operator’ means any of the following: (a) a market operator operating a regulated market, an MTF or an OTF; (b) an investment firm operating an MTF or an OTF.

1 Trading venue operators shall publish the decisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1 on their websites in the format set out in Table 2 of the Annex.

2 Trading venue operators shall communicate the decisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1 to the relevant competent authority in a standard machine readable format approved by that competent authority using the format set out in Table 2 of the Annex.

1 Trading venue operators shall publish the decisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1 immediately.

2 Trading venue operators shall not publish the decisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1 by other means prior to their publication in accordance with Article 3(1).

3 Trading venue operators shall communicate the decisions referred to in point (a) of Article 1 to the relevant competent authority simultaneously with its publication or immediately thereafter.

1 Competent authorities shall publish the decision referred to in point (c) of Article 1 on a website in the format set out in Table 3 of the Annex.

2 Competent authorities shall communicate the decisions referred to in points (d) and (e) of Article 1 in a standard machine-readable format using the formats set out in Tables 3 and 4 of the Annex, respectively.

1 Competent authorities shall publish the decision referred to in point (c) of Article 1 immediately.

2 Competent authorities shall communicate the decision referred to in point (d) of Article 1 simultaneously with its publication or immediately thereafter.

3 A notified competent authority shall communicate the decision referred to in point (e) of Article 1 without undue delay upon receipt of the communication referred to in point (d) of Article 1.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 3 January 2018.