# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1642 of 13 July 2018 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the criteria to be taken into account by competent authorities when assessing whether administrators of significant benchmarks should apply certain requirements (Text with EEA relevance), Article 1: Vulnerability of the benchmark to manipulation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The further criteria to be considered by the competent authority under Article 25(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 in taking into account the vulnerability of the benchmark to manipulation shall include at least the following:
(a) whether the benchmark is based on transaction data;
(b) whether the contributors are supervised entities;
(c) whether measures apply that increase the robustness of the input data;
(d) whether the administrator's organisational structure reduces incentives to manipulation;
(e) whether the administrator has a financial interest in financial instruments, financial contracts or investment funds referencing the benchmark;
(f) whether there are proven cases of manipulation of the same benchmark or a benchmark with a similar methodology provided by an administrator of similar size and organisational structure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/1642/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1642/article-1
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