Article 1 — Scope

This Regulation sets down the format and timing for the following communications and publications:
(a) publication by a market operator operating a regulated market or by an investment firm or a market operator operating an MTF or an OTF of its decision to suspend or remove a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives from trading or to lift a suspension; (b) communication of the decisions referred to in point (a) to the relevant competent authority; (c) publication by a competent authority of its decision to suspend trading or remove from trading a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives or to lift a suspension; (d) communication by a competent authority to ESMA and other competent authorities of the decision to suspend trading or to remove from trading a financial instrument and, where relevant, related derivatives or to lift a suspension; (e) communication by a notified competent authority to ESMA and other competent authorities of its decision on whether to follow a decision as referred to in point (d).