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Version date: 8 July 2021 - onwards

5.20 Identification of the trading venue

Closed
30 September 2021

304. Field Trading venue should be used to report the venue where the derivative was executed.

305. Where a derivative was concluded OTC and the respective instrument is not admitted to trading or traded on a trading venue, MIC code 'XXXX' should be used.

306. Where a derivative was concluded OTC and the respective instrument is admitted to trading ortraded on a trading venue inside of the Union, MIC code 'XOFF' should be used.

307. The 'BILT' value proposed in the CDE guidance should be used when the reporting counterparty cannot determine whether the instrument is listed or not, as per jurisdictional requirements. Nethertheless, this situation should not arise in the EU since all instruments admitted to trading or traded on a trading venue are made publicly available in the Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS) on ESMA's website, therefore the counterparties are expected to be able to determine whether they should report 'XOFF' or 'XXXX' and the value 'BILT' is not allowed in the reporting under EMIR.

308. For MTFs, OTFs, SIs and organized trading platforms outside of the Union, the specific MIC code will be required even if the derivatives concluded on these venues are OTC derivatives under the definition set out in EMIR.