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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 28 March 2024 - onwards
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Article 5 Volume cap

1.Trading venues shall suspend their use of the waiver referred to in Article 4(1), point (a), where the percentage of trading in a financial instrument in the Union carried out under that waiver exceeds 7 % of the total volume of trading in that financial instrument in the Union.Trading venues shall base their decision to suspend the use of that waiver on the data published by ESMA in accordance with paragraph 4 of this Article, and shall take such decision within two working days of the publication of those data and for a period of three months.

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4.ESMA shall publish within seven working days of the end of March, June, September and December of each calendar year the total volume of trading in the Union per financial instrument in the previous 12 months, the percentages of trading in each financial instrument carried out across the Union under the waiver referred to in Article 4(1), point (a), and the methodology that is used to derive those percentages of trading in each financial instrument.

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