Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/527 of 15 December 2020 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 as regards the thresholds for weekly position reportingText with EEA relevance.

Article 83 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 is amended as follows:

(1) paragraph 1 is amended as follows:

(a) in the first subparagraph, point (b) is replaced by the following:

(b) the absolute amount of the gross long or short volume of total open interest expressed in the number of lots of the relevant commodity derivative is equal to, or exceeds, 10000 lots.;

(b) the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

For emission allowances and derivatives thereof, point (b) shall not apply.;

(2) paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

1. For contracts where there are fewer than five position holders in a given category of persons, the aggregate long and short positions, changes thereto since the previous report, the percentage of the total open interest in that category and the number of position holders in that category shall not be published..

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels,15 December 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen