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# Article 2 — Format for the record keeping of the written minutes or notes

**Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/959 · binding · OJ L 160, 17.6.2016 · dated 17 May 2016 [in force]**

*In force · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/959, OJ L 160, 17.6.2016 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2016/959/oj/eng)*

Disclosing market participants shall draw up the written minutes or notes referred to in Article 6(2)(d) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/960 in an electronic format using:\
**(a)** the template set out in Annex I where disclosing market participants consider that the market sounding involves the disclosure of inside information;
**(b)** the template set out in Annex II where disclosing market participants consider that the market sounding does not involve the disclosure of inside information.