Directive 2014/65/EU is amended as follows:

in Article 2(1), point (d)(ii) is replaced by the following:

in point (a) of Article 25(4), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘For the purpose of this point, a third-country market shall be considered to be equivalent to a regulated market if the requirements and the procedure laid down under the third and the fourth subparagraphs are fulfilled.

At the request of the competent authority of a Member State, the Commission shall adopt equivalence decisions in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 89a(2), stating whether the legal and supervisory framework of a third country ensures that a regulated market authorised in that third country complies with legally binding requirements which are, for the purpose of the application of this point, equivalent to the requirements resulting from Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, from Title III of this Directive, from Title II of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 and from Directive 2004/109/EC, and which are subject to effective supervision and enforcement in that third country. The competent authority shall indicate why it considers that the legal and supervisory framework of the third country concerned is to be considered equivalent and shall provide relevant information to that end.

Such third-country legal and supervisory framework may be considered equivalent where that framework fulfils at least the following conditions:

the markets are subject to authorisation and to effective supervision and enforcement on an ongoing basis;

the markets have clear and transparent rules regarding the admission of securities to trading so that such securities are capable of being traded in a fair, orderly and efficient manner, and are freely negotiable;

security issuers are subject to periodic and ongoing information requirements ensuring a high level of investor protection; and

market transparency and integrity are ensured by the prevention of market abuse in the form of insider dealing and market manipulation.’;

in the second subparagraph of Article 69(2), the date ‘3 July 2016’ is replaced by ‘3 July 2017’;

in the third subparagraph of Article 70(1), the date ‘3 July 2016’ is replaced by ‘3 July 2017’;

the following article is inserted:

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2016/1034 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 June 2016 amending Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments