1235/2024

Regulation amending Regulation No. 641/2017 on the implementation of European Union regulations on short selling and credit default swaps.

Parent regulation:

• 641/2017 Regulation on the implementation of European Union regulations on short selling and credit default swaps.

Article 1

A new paragraph is added to Article 1 of the Regulation, reading as follows:

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/27 of 27 September 2021 amending Regulation (EU) No. 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the adjustment of the relevant threshold for the notification of significant net short positions in shares, which was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No. 146/2022 of 29 April 2022, shall apply in Iceland with the adaptations that follow from Protocol 1 on horizontal adaptations to the EEA Agreement, cf. the Act on the European Economic Area, No. 2/1993, in which the Protocol is enacted. The Regulation is published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union No. 70 of 27 October 2022, pp. 314-315.

Article 2

This Regulation, which is issued under the authority of point (d) of the first paragraph of Article 13 of the Act on Short Selling and Credit Default Swaps, No. 55/2017, enters into force immediately.

Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, 6 November 2024.
On behalf of the Minister.
Gunnlaugur Helgason.
Eggert Páll Ólason.