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Article 8 — Type and minimum size of orders held in an order management facility (Article 4(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014)

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8(1)

1.The type of order held in an order management facility of a trading venue pending disclosure for which pre-trade transparency obligations may be waived is an order which:

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8(1)(a)
(a)is intended to be disclosed to the order book operated by the trading venue and is contingent on objective conditions that are pre-defined by the system's protocol;
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8(1)(b)
(b)for orders other than reserve orders, cannot interact with other trading interests prior to disclosure to the order book operated by the trading venue;
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8(1)(c)
(c)once disclosed to the order book, interacts with other orders in accordance with the rules applicable to orders of that kind at the time of disclosure.
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8(2)

2.Orders held in an order management facility of a trading venue pending disclosure for which pre-trade transparency obligations may be waived shall, at the point of entry and following any amendment, have one of the following sizes:

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8(2)(a)
(a)in the case of a reserve order, a size that is greater than or equal to EUR 10 000 ;
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8(2)(b)
(b)for all other orders, a size that is greater than or equal to the minimum tradable quantity set in advance by the system operator under its rules and protocols.
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8(3)

3.A reserve order as referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), shall be considered a limit order consisting of a disclosed order relating to a part of the amount and a non-disclosed order relating to the remaining part of the amount where the order on the non-disclosed amount can be executed only after the order on the disclosed amount is executed.

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Section 2 — Pre-trade transparency for systematic internalisers and investment firms trading outside a trading venue