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‘1. Member States shall ensure that competent authorities, in line with the calculation methodology determined by ESMA in the regulatory technical standards adopted in accordance with paragraph 3, set and apply limits on the size of a net position which a person can hold at all times in agricultural commodity derivatives and critical or significant commodity derivatives that are traded on trading venues, and in economically equivalent OTC contracts. Commodity derivatives shall be considered to be critical or significant where the sum of all net positions of end position holders constitutes the size of their open interest and is at a minimum of 300 000 lots on average over a one-year period. The limits shall be set based on all positions held by a person and those held on his or her behalf at an aggregate group level in order to: (a) prevent market abuse; (b) support orderly pricing and settlement conditions, including preventing market distorting positions, and ensuring, in particular, convergence between prices of derivatives in the delivery month and spot prices for the underlying commodity, without prejudice to price discovery on the market for the underlying commodity. The position limits referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply to: (a) positions held by, or on behalf of, a non-financial entity, and which are objectively measurable as reducing risks directly relating to the commercial activity of that non-financial entity; (b) positions held by, or on behalf of, a financial entity that is part of a predominantly commercial group and is acting on behalf of a non-financial entity of the predominantly commercial group, where those positions are objectively measurable as reducing risks directly relating to the commercial activity of that non-financial entity; (c) positions held by financial and non-financial counterparties for positions that are objectively measurable as resulting from transactions entered into to fulfil obligations to provide liquidity on a trading venue as referred to in point (c) of the fourth subparagraph of Article 2(4); (d) any other securities as referred to in point (c) of point (44) of Article 4(1) which relate to a commodity or an underlying as referred to in Section C.10 of Annex I. ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to determine a procedure by which a financial entity that is part of a predominantly commercial group may apply for a hedging exemption for positions held by that financial entity that are objectively measurable as reducing risks directly relating to the commercial activities of the non-financial entities of the group. ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to determine a procedure setting out how persons may apply for an exemption for positions resulting from transactions entered into to fulfil obligations to provide liquidity on a trading venue. ESMA shall submit the draft regulatory technical standards referred to in the third and fourth subparagraphs to the Commission by 28 November 2021. Power is delegated to the Commission to supplement this Directive by adopting the regulatory technical standards referred to in the third and fourth subparagraphs of this paragraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.’;

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-05