7.—(1) The Treasury must from time to time—
(a)carry out a review of regulations 2 to 6,
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Treasury must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Directive 2013/50/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market(1) (which is implemented by means of regulations 2 to 6) is implemented in other member States.
(3) The report must in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision made by regulations 2 to 6,
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.
(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.
(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 7 in force at 1.11.2015, see reg. 1(2)
OJ L 294, 6.11.2013 p.13.