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DIRECTIVE (EU) 2021/338 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 February 2021 amending Directive 2014/65/EU as regards information requirements, product governance and position limits, and Directives 2013/36/EU and (EU) 2019/878 as regards their application to investment firms, to help the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(6) Investment firms are currently required to undertake a cost-benefit analysis of certain portfolio activities in cases of ongoing relationships with their clients in which financial instruments are switched. Investment firms are thereby required to obtain the necessary information from their clients and to be able to demonstrate that the benefits of such switching outweigh the costs. As that procedure is overly burdensome with regard to professional clients, who tend to switch on a frequent basis, services provided to them should be exempted from that requirement. Professional clients would, however, retain the possibility to opt in. As retail clients need a high level of protection, that exemption should be limited to services provided to professional clients.

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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.