Regulation 3 Obligation to disclose information
Subject to paragraph (2) below, a company or undertaking which is an issuer of a security admitted to trading on a regulated market (an “issuer”) shall inform the public as soon as possible of any major new developments in the issuer’s sphere of activity which are not public knowledge and which may, by virtue of their effect on the issuer’s assets and liabilities or financial position or on the general course of its business, lead to substantial movements in the price of that security.
A recognised investment exchange which regulates and supervises a regulated market on which an issuer’s securities are admitted to trading may exempt the issuer from the obligation imposed by paragraph (1) above if satisfied that the disclosure of the particular information would prejudice the legitimate interests of that issuer.
The rules of a recognised investment exchange must, at least, enable the exchange, in the event of a failure by an issuer whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market which the exchange regulates and supervises to comply with the obligation imposed by paragraph (1) above, to do any of the following, that is to say—
discontinue the admission of the securities to trading;
suspend trading in the securities;
publish the fact that the issuer has failed to comply with the obligation; and
itself make public any information which the issuer has failed to publish.