(a)

for the purposes of Articles 9, 11, and 18, a market for a financial instrument or a class of financial instruments, where there are ready and willing buyers and sellers on a continuous basis, and where the market is assessed in accordance with the following criteria, taking into consideration the specific market structures of the particular financial instrument or of the particular class of financial instruments: the average frequency and size of transactions over a range of market conditions, having regard to the nature and life cycle of products within the class of financial instrument; the number and type of market participants, including the ratio of market participants to traded financial instruments in a particular product; the average size of spreads, where available;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.