Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on major shareholdings and indicative list of financial instruments subject to notification requirements under the revised Transparency Directive

Responding to this paper

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is seeking comments on all matters covered in this paper and in particular on the specific questions summarised in Annex 1.

Comments are most helpful if they:

respond to the question stated;
indicate the specific question to which the comment relates;
contain a clear rationale; and
describe any alternatives ESMA should consider.

Deadline

ESMA will consider all comments received by 30 May 2014.

All contributions should be submitted online at www.esma.europa.eu under the heading “Your input - Consultations”

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Who should read this paper

All interested parties are invited to respond to this consultation paper. This document will be of interest to all stakeholders, though it would primarily be of interest to any market participant who is affected by Directive 2004/109/EC of 15 December 2004. reporting.