APA — a person authorised under this Regulation to provide the service of publishing trade reports on behalf of investment firms pursuant to Articles 20 and 21; (35) “consolidated tape provider” or (iii)

ARM — a person authorised under this Regulation to provide the service of reporting details of transactions to competent authorities or to ESMA on behalf of investment firms (iii)

bodies and authorities — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (c)

competent authorities — (i) competent authorities as defined in point (40) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, including the European Central Bank with regard to matters relating to the tasks conferred on it by Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013; (ii) with regard to Directive 2002/65/EC, the authorities and bodies competent for ensuring compliance with the requirements of that Directive by financial institutions; (iii) with regard to Directive (EU) 2015/849, the authorities and bodies that supervise financial sector operators and are competent for ensuring their compliance with the requirements of that Directive; (iv) with regard to deposit guarantee schemes, bodies which administer deposit guarantee schemes pursuant to Directive 2014/49/EU or, where the operation of the deposit guarantee scheme is administered by a private company, the public authority supervising those schemes pursuant to that Directive, and relevant administrative authorities as referred to in that Directive; (v) with regard to Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 establishing a framework for the recovery and… (c)

competent authority — a competent authority as defined in point (26) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU and, for the authorisation and supervision of data reporting services providers, ESMA, with the exception of those approved reporting mechanisms (ARMs) and approved publication arrangements (APAs) with a derogation in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article (i)

CTP — a person authorised under this Regulation to provide the service of collecting trade reports for financial instruments listed in Articles 6, 7, 10, 12 and 13, 20 and 21 from regulated markets, MTFs, OTFs and APAs and consolidating them into a continuous electronic live data stream providing price and volume data per financial instrument; (36) “approved reporting mechanism” or (iii)

data reporting services provider — a person referred to in points (34) to (36) and a person referred to in Article 27b(2) (iv)

entity — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (b)

financial institution — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (a)

financial institution — any undertaking that is subject to regulation and supervision pursuant to any of the legislative acts referred to in Article 1(2) (a)

financial market participant — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (a)

financial market participant — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (b)

financial sector operator — an “entity” as referred to in Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2015/849, which is either a financial institution as defined in point (1) of this Article or in point (1) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 or a “financial market participant” as defined in point (1) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 (b)

senior management — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (ii)