(1) The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) Regulations 2001 [S.I. 2001/2188.] are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 [The definition of "EEA competent authority" was amended by S.I. 2003/2066 and 2006/3413, and the definition of "single market restrictions" was inserted by S.I. 2012/916.] -
(a) in the appropriate place insert -
"EMIR information" means confidential information received by one of the regulators in the course of discharging its functions as a competent authority under the EMIR regulation;
"the EMIR regulation" means Regulation (EU) 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories;";
(b) in the definition of "EEA competent authority", after "single market directives" insert "or the EMIR regulation";
(c) in paragraph (b) of the definition of "overseas regulatory authority" for "or overseas clearing house" substitute ", overseas clearing
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