1. Pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and in addition to transactions referred to in Article 19(7) of that Regulation, persons discharging managerial responsibilities within an issuer or an emission allowance market participant and persons closely associated with them shall notify the issuer or the emission allowance market participant and the FCA of their transactions.

Those notified transactions shall include all transactions conducted by persons discharging managerial responsibilities on their own account relating, in respect of the issuers, to the shares or debt instruments of the issuer or to derivatives or other financial instruments linked thereto, and in respect of emission allowance market participants, to emission allowances, to auction products based thereon or to derivatives relating thereto.

2. Those notified transactions shall include the following:

(a) acquisition, disposal, short sale, subscription or exchange;

(b) acceptance or exercise of a stock option, including of a stock option granted to managers or employees as part of their remuneration package, and the disposal of shares stemming from the exercise of a stock option;

(c) entering into or exercise of equity swaps;

(d) transactions in or related to derivatives, including cash-settled transaction;

(e) entering into a contract for difference on a financial instrument of the concerned issuer or on emission allowances or auction products based thereon;