{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-600/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-600/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/600",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-600",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Obligations of competent authorities",
  "text": "The competent authority shall check the following:\n(a)that investment firms regularly update bid and offer prices published in accordance with Article 14 and maintain prices which reflect the prevailing market conditions;\n(b)that investment firms comply with the conditions for price improvement laid down in Article 15(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked (5.4.2024 for the revocation of Sch. 3 paras. 17, 34-39, 1.12.2025 for the revocation of Art. 18b, 30.3.2026 for the revocation of Arts. 4, 4a) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with s. 1(4)); S.I. 2023/1382, reg. 4(b); S.I. 2025/1078, regs. 4(b), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1403), regs. 1(3), 28(3) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/600/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:36.068868+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}