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1.—(1) For the purposes of Article 30(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of 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 (“Regulation (EU) 2016/1011”), to determine that the legal framework and supervisory practice of an EEA state ensures that—
(a)administrators authorised or registered in that EEA state comply with binding requirements which are equivalent to the requirements under Regulation (EU) 2016/1011, in particular taking account of whether the legal framework and supervisory practice of an EEA state ensures compliance with the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (“IOSCO”) principles for financial benchmarks or, where applicable, with the IOSCO principles for Oil Price Reporting Agencies (“OPRAs”); and
(b)the binding requirements are subject to effective supervision and enforcement on an on-going basis in that EEA state.
(2) For the purposes of Article 30(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011, to determine that—
(a)binding requirements in an EEA state with respect to specific administrators or specific benchmarks or families of benchmarks are equivalent to the requirements under Regulation (EU) 2016/1011, in particular taking account of whether the legal framework and supervisory practice of an EEA state ensures compliance with—
(i)the IOSCO principles for financial benchmarks or,
(ii)where applicable, with the IOSCO principles for OPRAs; and
(b)such specific administrators or specific benchmarks or families of benchmarks are subject to effective supervision and enforcement on an on-going basis in that EEA state.
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