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# associated instruments

*In force · MAR Article 3(2), point (b) · Consolidated version of 5 June 2026 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 1 Oct 2026 ·* [*Official source*](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014R0596-20260605)

### Definition

> **(b)** ‘**associated instruments**’ means the following financial instruments, including those which are not admitted to trading or traded on a trading venue, or for which a request for admission to trading on a trading venue has not been made:
>
> **(i)** contracts or rights to subscribe for, acquire or dispose of securities;
>
> **(ii)** financial derivatives of securities;
>
> **(iii)** where the securities are convertible or exchangeable debt instruments, the securities into which such convertible or exchangeable debt instruments may be converted or exchanged;
>
> **(iv)** instruments which are issued or guaranteed by the issuer or guarantor of the securities and whose market price is likely to materially influence the price of the securities, or vice versa;
>
> **(v)** where the securities are securities equivalent to shares, the shares represented by those securities and any other securities equivalent to those shares;

### Source

[MAR, Article 3(2), point (b)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014R0596-20260605).


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