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‘3. ESMA shall draw up a list of critical or significant commodity derivatives referred to in paragraph 1 and develop draft regulatory technical standards to determine the calculation methodology that competent authorities are to apply when establishing the spot month position limits and other months’ position limits for physically settled and cash settled commodity derivatives based on the characteristics of the relevant derivative concerned. When drawing up the list of critical or significant commodity derivatives referred to in paragraph 1, ESMA shall take into account the following factors: (a) the number of market participants; (b) the commodity underlying the derivative concerned. When determining the calculation methodology referred to in the first subparagraph, ESMA shall take into account the following factors: (a) the deliverable supply in the underlying commodity; (b) the overall open interest in that derivative and the overall open interest in other financial instruments with the same underlying commodity; (c) the number and size of the market participants; (d) the characteristics of the underlying commodity market, including patterns of production, consumption and transportation to market; (e) the development of new commodity derivatives; (f) the experience of investment firms or market operators operating a trading venue and of other jurisdictions regarding the position limits. ESMA shall submit the draft regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph 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 first subparagraph 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