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Article 42 Product intervention by competent authorities

1. A competent authority may prohibit or restrict the following in or from that Member State:

(a) the marketing, distribution or sale of certain financial instruments or structured deposits or financial instruments or structured deposits with certain specified features; or

(b) a type of financial activity or practice.

2. A competent authority may take the action referred to in paragraph 1 if it is satisfied on reasonable grounds that:

(a) either

(i) a financial instrument, structured deposit or activity or practice gives rise to significant investor protection concerns or poses a threat to the orderly functioning and integrity of financial markets or commodity markets or to the stability of whole or part of the financial system within at least one Member State; or

(ii) a derivative has a detrimental effect on the price formation mechanism in the underlying market;

(b) existing regulatory requirements under Union law applicable to the financial instrument, structured deposit or activity

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