# Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (Text with EEA relevance), Article 19


(1) To specify the criteria for establishing when an activity is to be considered to be ancillary to the main business of a firm at group level for the purposes of paragraph 1(k) of Schedule 3 to the Regulated Activities Order.
(2) Any criteria specified under point (1) must take into account the following elements—
(a) the need for ancillary activities to constitute a minority of activities at a group level;
(b) the size of their trading activity compared to the overall market trading activity in that asset class.
(3) In determining the extent to which ancillary activities constitute a minority of activities at a group level the competent authority may determine that the capital employed for carrying out the ancillary activity relative to the capital employed for carrying out the main business is to be considered (though this factor is not sufficient to demonstrate that the activity is ancillary to the main business of the group).
(4) The activities referred to in this paragraph must be considered at a group level.
(5) No account is to be taken, for the purposes of points (2) and (3), of—
(a) intra-group transactions as referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade depositories that serve group-wide liquidity or risk management purposes;
(b) transactions in derivatives which are objectively measurable in reducing risks directly relating to the commercial activity or treasury financing activity;
(c) transactions in commodity derivatives and emission allowances entered into to fulfil obligations to provide liquidity on a trading venue, where such obligations are required by regulatory authorities in accordance with domestic law, or by trading venues .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/600/annex/3/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-600/annex-3/19
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