Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 F1(Qualifying Provisions) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st April 2013.

For the purposes of this Order—

• “the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

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• F3“the EU Benchmarks Regulation 2016” means Regulation EU 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds and amending Directives 2008/48/EC and 2014/17/EU and Regulation (EU) No 596/2014;

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• “the European market infrastructure regulation” means Regulation (EU) 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories M1F6;

• “EuSEF Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of 17 April 2013 on European social entrepreneurship funds F7as amended by Regulation (EU) No 2017/1991 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 on European venture capital funds and Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 on European social entrepreneurship funds;

• “EuVECA Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of 17 April 2013 on European venture capital funds F8as amended by Regulation (EU) No 2017/1991 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 on European venture capital funds and Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 on European social entrepreneurship funds;

• F9“markets in financial instruments regulation” means 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;

• F10“MMF Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 2017/1131 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14th June 2017 on Money Market Funds;

• F11“PRIIPs regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products;

• F12recovery and resolution directive” means Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th May 2014 establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms;

• F13“UK auctioning regulations” means the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Auctioning Regulations 2021;

Any reference in this Order to an EU Regulation, or part of an EU Regulation, is to be read as a reference to that EU Regulation, or that part of that EU Regulation, as amended from time to time.

In this Order a reference to any directly applicable regulation made under an EU directive (“the parent EU Directive”) is a reference to—

F17Subject to paragraph (5A), in this Order a reference to any directly applicable regulation (or EU regulation) made under an EU regulation (“the parent Regulation”) is a reference to—

In this Order a reference to any directly applicable regulation (or EU regulation) made under F19the PRIIPs regulation, the markets in financial instruments regulation or the European market infrastructure regulation (“the parent Regulation”) is a reference to—

In this Order a reference to any directly applicable regulation made under Article 4(9) or 4(10) of the SFT Regulation is a reference to—

In articles 2(2)(m), 3(2)(p) and (3)(n), 5(2)(p) and (5)(o) and 6(2)(r) the reference to any directly applicable decision made under an EU regulation is a reference to—