MAR 10.5 Other reporting, notifications and information requirements

Regulation 27 of the MiFI Regulations provides the FCA with the power to:

1. (1)

    require a person to provide information including all relevant documentation, on, or concerning:

   1. (a)

       a position the person holds in a contract to which a position limit relates; and

   2. (b)

       trades the person has undertaken, or intends to undertake, in a contract to which a position limit relates; and

2. (2)

    require a trading venue operator to provide information including all relevant documentation on, or concerning:

   1. (a) trades a person has undertaken, or intends to undertake in a contract to which a position limit relates; and
   2. (b) trades a person has undertaken, or intends to undertake in a contract or within a class of commodity derivatives to which position management requirements relate.

The following provisions of the MiFI Regulations regulate the power of the FCA to intervene in respect of position limits:

1. (1)

    Regulation 28 provides that the FCA may, if it considers necessary for the purpose of advancing one or more of its operational objectives, limit the ability of any person to enter into a contract for a commodity derivative, restrict the size of positions a person may hold in such a contract, or require any person to reduce the size of a position held, notwithstanding that the restriction or reduction would be more restrictive than the position limit established by the trading venue or the FCA (under regulation 16 of the MiFI Regulations); and

2. (2)

    Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 provides that the FCA must maintain arrangements designed to enable it to determine whether persons on whom the FCA imposes position limit requirements are complying with those requirements, and also maintain arrangements for enforcing the position limits requirements on such persons.

The following provisions of the MiFI Regulations regulate the power of the FCA to impose reporting requirements in respect of positions taken in commodity derivatives and emission allowances:

1. (1)

    Paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 provides that a person must provide the FCA with information in respect of its compliance or non-compliance with position limit requirements, as the FCA may direct; and

2. (2)

    Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 provides that the FCA must maintain arrangements designed to enable it to determine whether persons on whom the FCA imposes position limit requirements are complying with those requirements, and also maintain arrangements for enforcing the position limits requirements on such persons.

Firms should refer to SUP 15.3 (General notification requirements) generally, and in particular SUP 15.3.11R, in respect of the following:

1. (1)

   a breach of a rule or direction in this chapter;

2. (2)

   a breach of a directly applicable provision imposed by MiFIR or any onshored regulation adopted under MiFID or MiFIR; and

3. (3)

   a breach of any requirement imposed by or under the MiFI Regulations which relates to this chapter.

The powers of the FCA referred to in MAR 10.5.1G to MAR 10.5.3G can be applied to a person regardless of whether the person is situated or operating in the UK or abroad.

The power of the FCA referred to in MAR 10.5.2G is exercisable subject to the decision-making procedures in DEPP 2 Annex 2G (Supervisory notices) (and other provisions in DEPP, as appropriate).