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# Article 1

**Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2272 · binding on its addressees · dated 15 Dec 2016 [in force]**

*In force · Consolidated version of 6 November 2023 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02016D2272-20231106)*

For the purposes of point (7) of [Article 2](../../articles/2.md) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the financial markets authorised in Australia and set out in the Annex shall be considered equivalent to regulated markets as defined in point (14) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC.