II.5.1.

When did REMIT come into force and into application?

Answer: REMIT was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 8 December 2011. On 28 December, the prohibitions of insider trading and market manipulation, the obligation for market participants to publish inside information and the obligation for persons professionally arranging transactions to establish and maintain effective arrangements to detect market abuse and to notify reasonable suspicious cases to national regulatory authorities came into force.

Within 6 months of the entry into force of REMIT, i.e. by 28 June 2012, the Agency determined a format for the registration of market participants, and within 18 months, i.e. by 28 June 2013, Member States should have assigned investigatory and enforcement powers to NRAs and put in place rules on penalties applicable to infringements of REMIT.