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Version date: 9 November 2021 - onwards
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Article 5 Capital Employed Test

1. The estimated capital employed for carrying out the activities referred to in Article 2, paragraph 1, point (c), shall be the sum of the following:

(a) 15 % of each net position, long or short, multiplied by the price for the commodity derivative, emission allowance or derivatives thereof;

(b) 3 % of the gross position, long plus short, multiplied by the price for the commodity derivative, emission allowance or derivatives thereof.

 The positions referred to in the first subparagraph shall be calculated on the basis of all contracts that are not traded on a trading venue to which any person located in the Union is a party and of any other contracts that is traded on a trading venue located in the Union during the relevant annual accounting period referred to in Article 6(2).

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, first subparagraph, point (a), the net position in a commodity derivative, an emission allowance or a derivative thereof in the Union shall be determined by netting long and short positions:

(a) in each type of commodity derivative contract with a particular commodity as underlying in order to calculate the net position per type of contract with that commodity as underlying;

(b) in an emission allowance contract in order to calculate the net position in that emission allowances contract; or