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# Article 5 — Procedure for notifying where the information has ceased to be inside information

**Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/960 · binding · OJ L 160, 17.6.2016 · dated 17 May 2016 [in force]**

*In force · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/960, OJ L 160, 17.6.2016 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2016/960/oj/eng)*

Where disclosing market participants assess as referred to in Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, that the inside information disclosed in the course of a market sounding has ceased to be inside information, they shall provide the person having received the market sounding with the following information:\
**(a)** the identity of the disclosing market participant;
**(b)** an identification of the transaction subject to the market sounding;
**(c)** the date and time of the market sounding;
**(d)** the fact that the information disclosed has ceased to be inside information;
**(e)** the date on which the information ceased to be inside information.