EU-regulation

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)

The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC.
MAR

Regulation (EU) 2019/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive 2014/65/EU and Regulations (EU) No 596/2014 and (EU) 2017/1129 as regards the promotion of the use of SME growth markets

Regulation (EU) 2016/1011of The European Parliament and of The Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds and amending Directives 2008/48/EC and 2014/17/EU and Regulation (EU) No 596/2014. (Article 56 causes changes to MAR article 19)

Regulation (EU) 2016/1033of The European Parliament and of The Council of 23 June 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 on markets in financial instruments, Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse and Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories.

Market Abuse Directive (MAD II)

Directive 2014/57/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on criminal sanctions for market abuse (have no effect in Denmark due to the Danish opt-out on EU justice and home affairs).
MAD II

Commission Implementing Directive (Whistleblower)

Commission implementing directive (EU) 2015/2392 of 17 December 2015 on Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards reporting to competent authorities of actual or potential infringements of that Regulation.
Implementing Directive

Implementing Regulations

Insider lists
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1210of 13 July 2022 regarding the format of insider lists and their updates.

Scheme for managers' 
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/523of 10 March 2016 regarding notification and public disclosure of managers’ transactions.

The market operator's duties
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/378 of 11 March 2016 regarding timing, format and template of the submission of notifications to competent authorities.

Format and standards for market soundings
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/959of 17 May 2016 regarding systems and notification templates to be used by disclosing market participants and the format of records.

Inside information - publication and delay
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055of 29 June 2016 regarding the technical means for appropriate public disclosure of inside information and for delaying the public disclosure of inside information.

Form for exchanging information with ESMA
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1158 of 29 June 2017 regarding the procedures and forms for competent authorities exchanging information with ESMA.

Delegated Regulations

Permission for trading during closed periods and types of notifiable managers’ transactions etc.
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/522of 17 December 2015 regarding an exemption for certain third countries public bodies and central banks, the indicators of market manipulation, the disclosure thresholds, the competent authority for notifications of delays, the permission for trading during closed periods and types of notifiable managers’ transactions.

Accepted market practice
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/908 (EU) 2016/908 of 26 February 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards on the criteria, the procedure and the requirements for establishing an accepted market practice and the requirements for maintaining it, terminating it or modifying the conditions for its acceptance.

The market operator's notifications
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/909of 1 March 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards for the content of notifications to be submitted to competent authorities and the compilation, publication and maintenance of the list of notifications.

Buy-back programmes and stabilisation
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052of 8 March 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buy-back programmes and stabilisation measures.

The market operator's notification and procedures for market abuse
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/957of 9 March 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards for the appropriate arrangements, systems and procedures as well as notification templates to be used for preventing, detecting and reporting abusive practices or suspicious orders or transactions.

Investment recommendations
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/958of 9 March 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards for the technical arrangements for objective presentation of investment recommendations.

Procedures and registrations duties for market soundings
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/960of 17 May 2016 regarding regulatory technical standards for the appropriate arrangements, systems and procedures for disclosing market participants conducting market soundings.

Official MAR Guidelines by ESMA

• Condolidated guidelines regarding the disclosure of inside information and interactions with prudential supervision of 13 April 2022 (ESMA70-159-4966)

• Persons receiving market soundings (ESMA/2016/1477)

ESMA documents

• ESMA Q&A on MAR (25 November 2022) 
• Final Report on MAR GLs on delayed disclosure and interactions with prudential supervision (5 January 2022)  
• Consultation paper on review of MAR Guidelines on delay in the disclosure of inside information and interactions with prudential supervision (8 July 2021)
• ESMA's Final report on the amendments to MAR for the promotion of the use of SME Growth Markets (27 October 2020) 
• ESMA's MAR Review (24 September 2020)
• ESMA's Compliance table regarding MAR guidelines for persons receiving market soundings (8 January 2021) 
• ESMA's Compliance table regarding MAR guidelines on delay in the disclosure of inside information (8 January 2021)
• ESMA's MAR Guidelines - Information relating to commodity derivatives markets or related spot markets for the purpose of the definition of inside information on commodity derivatives.pdf (17 January 2017)
• ESMA's Final Report - MAR Guidelines on commodity derivatives (30 September 2016)
• ESMA's Final Report - Draft Implementing Technical Standards on sanctions and measures under MAR (26 July 2016)
• ESMA's Final Report - Guidelines on the Market Abuse Regulation - market soundings and delay of disclosure of inside information (13 July 2016)
• ESMA's Opinion - Draft Implementing Technical Standards on the technical means for appropriate public disclosure of inside information and for delaying the public disclosure of inside information (17 June 2016)
• ESMA's Consultation Paper - Guidelines on information expected or required to be disclosed on commodity derivatives markets or related spot markets under MAR (30 March 2016)
• ESMA's Final Report - Technical standards on the Market Abuse Regulation (Draft) (28 September 2015)
• ESMA's technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Market Abuse Regulation (3 February 2015)

Feature pages on market abuse

• ESMA's market abuse tab
• Commission's tab on market abuse

Danish regulation

• The Danish Capital Markets Act (in Danish)

• Draft on Capital Markets Act (in Danish)

News from the Danish FSA

2023:

• Changes in OAM when reporting inside information and financial reports with inside information (In Danish - 9 January 2023)

2022:

• Newsletter on Capital Markets - December 2022 (In Danish - 22 December 2022)
• Newsletter on Capital Markets - October 2022 (In Danish - 6 October 2022)
• Newsletter - Which announcements shall be reported in FSA's database and under which categories (In Danish - 23 June 2022)
• Newsletter - The disclosure of managers' transactions (In Danish - 12 February 2022)
• Newsletter - Wash trades (In Danish - 17 February 2022)

2021:

• Delayed disclosure of inside information (In Danish - updated as of 26 November 2021)
• Identification of "persons discharging managerial responsibilities" (In Danish - updated as of 25 November 2021)
• Guide - When shall an issuer disclose inside information in financial reports as inside information? (In Danish - 14 June 2021)

2019:

• Issuer's obligations (In Danish - 30 August 2019)
• The Danish FSA's Q&A concerning the reporting of Managers' transactions in accordance with MAR (In Danish - 22 August 2019)
• Guidelines on security traders' liability for the execution of orders and the reporting of such in accordance with MAR (In Danish - 14 August 2019)
• Issuers' obligation to disclose managers' transactions, as well as transactions executed by persons closely associated with them (In Danish - 9 May 2019)
• Inside information in financial reports - considerations of the Danish FSA (In Danish - 4 Marts 2019)

2017:

• Memorandum - Insider lists and the typical mistakes (In Danish - 28 November 2017)
• Newsletter - What is "as soon as possible" regarding public disclosure of inside information? (In Danish - 28 November 2017)
• Guide - When shall an issuer disclose inside information in financial reports as inside information? (Outdated - In Danish - 10 October 2017)

Decisions from the Danish FSA

The Danish FSA's public censures, reportings to the police or similar for violations of MAR can be found on the links below.

• See updated list with public censures (in Danish)
• See updated list with reportings to the police (in Danish)

Nasdaq regulation

Nasdaq Rules for issuers of shares and bonds.

• Rules for issuers of shares (1 October 2021) 
• Rules for issuers of bonds (1 May 2020)