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Article 2 Transferable securities - fair, orderly and efficient trading

1. When assessing whether a transferable security is capable of being traded in a fair, orderly and efficient manner, a regulated market shall take into account the information required to be prepared under UK law corresponding to Directive 2003/71/EC or information that is otherwise publicly available such as:

(a) historical financial information;

(b) information about the issuer;

(c) information providing a business overview.

2. In addition to paragraph 1, when assessing whether a share is capable of being traded in a fair, orderly and efficient manner a regulated market shall take into account the distribution of those shares to the public.

3. When assessing whether a transferable security referred to in Article 2(1)(24) of Regulation 600/2014/EU is capable of being traded in a fair, orderly and efficient manner, the regulated market shall take into account, depending on the nature of the security being admitted, whether the following criteria are satisfied:

(a) the terms of the security are clear and unambiguous and allow for a correlation between the price of the security and the price or other value measure of the underlying;

(b) the price or other value measure of the underlying is reliable and publicly available;