--- title: "Article 49 — Tick sizes" type: regulation legal_status: in_force source: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0065-20260606" source_retrieved: 2026-09-28 shortTitle: "Article 49 — Tick sizes" instrument_type: level1_directive authority: Commission binding: true binding_character: binding mica_level2: false legal_basis: "Directive 2014/65/EU" instrument: mifid2 celex: "32014L0065" regulation: MiFID II regulation-full: "Directive 2014/65/EU" article: 49 status: in_force object_id: eu.mifid2.legal_text.article.49 text_version: "Consolidated version of 6 June 2026" source_url: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0065-20260606" check_status: matched verified: true last_checked: 2026-10-26 --- *In force · Consolidated version of 6 June 2026 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0065-20260606)* 1. Member States shall require regulated markets to adopt tick‐size regimes in shares, depositary receipts, exchange‐traded funds, certificates and other similar financial instruments and in any other [financial instrument](https://www.headlesslaw.com/definitions/mifid-ii/financial-instrument) for which regulatory technical standards are developed in accordance with paragraph 4. The application of tick sizes shall not prevent regulated markets from matching orders large in scale at mid‐point within the current bid and offer prices. 2. The tick size regimes referred to in paragraph 1 shall: **(a)** be calibrated to reflect the liquidity profile of the financial instrument in different markets and the average bid-ask spread, taking into account the desirability of enabling reasonably stable prices without unduly constraining further narrowing of spreads; **(b)** adapt the tick size for each financial instrument appropriately. In respect of shares with an International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) issued outside the European Economic Area (EEA), or shares which have an EEA ISIN and which are traded on a third-country venue in the local currency or in a non-EEA currency, as referred to in Article 23(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 for which the venue that is the most relevant market in terms of liquidity is in a third country, regulated markets may provide for the same tick size that applies on that venue. 3. ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify minimum tick sizes or tick size regimes for specific shares, depositary receipts, exchange-traded funds, certificates, and other similar financial instruments where necessary to ensure the orderly functioning of markets, in accordance with the factors in paragraph 2 and the price, spreads and depth of liquidity of the financial instruments. ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 3 July 2015. Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010. 4. ESMA may develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify minimum tick sizes or tick size regimes for specific financial instruments other than those listed in paragraph 3 where necessary to ensure the orderly functioning of markets, in accordance with the factors in paragraph 2 and the price, spreads and depth of liquidity of the financial instruments. ESMA shall submit any such draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 3 January 2016. Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010. ## Related Level 2 and Level 3 ### Binding measures - [2017/588 — RTS — Tick size regime \[in force\]](../level-2/rts/2017-588-the-tick-size-regime-for-shares-depositary-receipts-and.md) - [2019/443 — Delegated act — Amending 2017/588 as regards the average daily number \[in force\]](../level-2/delegated-acts/2019-443-amending-the-possibility-to-adjust-the-average-daily.md) - [2023/960 — RTS — Amending 2017/588 as regards the annual application date \[in force\]](../level-2/rts/2023-960-commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2023-960-of-1-february.md) *** [Title III — Regulated markets](../titles/iii.md) · [← Article 48](48.md) · [Article 50 →](50.md)