Article 4

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply: ‘financial market participant’ means any person in relation to whom a requirement in the legislation referred to in Article 1(2) or a national law implementing such legislation applies; ‘key financial market participant’ means a financial market participant whose regular activity or financial viability has or is likely to have a significant effect on the stability, integrity or efficiency of the financial markets in the Union; ‘competent authorities’ means: competent authorities and/or supervisory authorities as defined in the legislation referred to in Article 1(2); with regard to Directives 2002/65/EC and 2005/60/EC, the authorities competent for ensuring compliance with the requirements of those Directives by firms providing investment services and by collective investment undertakings marketing their units or shares; with regard to investor compensation schemes, bodies which administer national compensation schemes pursuant to Directive 97/9/EC, or in the case where the operation of the investor compensation scheme is administered by a private company, the public authority supervising those schemes pursuant to that Directive.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.