Article 1
For the purposes of point (7) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 authorised financial instrument exchanges and commodity exchanges in Japan and set out in the Annex shall be considered as equivalent to UK regulated markets as defined in Article 2(1)(13A) of Regulation (EU) 600/2014 of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments.
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 15 December 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker
Words in Art. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/541), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)