(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the requirements of the Directive relating to the admission of securities to official listing shall have effect and be applied accordingly.

(2) The Irish Stock Exchange may make the admission of securities to official listing subject to more stringent conditions than those set out in Articles 42 to 63 of the Directive or to additional conditions:

Provided that those more stringent or additional conditions -

(i) apply generally for all such issuers or for individual classes of such issuers,

(ii) are published before application for admission of such securities is made, and

(iii) are not otherwise inconsistent with, or imposed in a manner inconsistent with, any provision of the Directive taking account of the prohibitions provided for in Article 7 and Articles 42 to 63 of the Directive.

(3) The Irish Stock Exchange may also make the issuers of securities admitted to official listing subject to additional obligations:

Provided that those additional obligations -

(i) apply generally for all such issuers or for individual classes of such issuers,

(ii) do not -