S.L. 345.21 Art. 2Definitions.

(1) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:

"the Acts" means the Financial Markets Act and the

Investment Services Act;

"APA" means a person authorised under MiFIR to provide the service of publishing trade reports on behalf of investment firms pursuant to Articles 20 and 21 of MiFIR;

"approved reporting mechanism" or "ARM" means a person authorised under MiFIR to provide the service of reporting details of transactions to competent authorities or to ESMA on behalf of investment firms;

"consolidated tape provider" or "CTP" means a person authorised under MiFIR to provide the service of collecting trade reports for financial instruments listed in Articles 6, 7, 10, 12 and 13, 20 and 21 of MiFIR from regulated markets, MTFs, OTFs and APAs and consolidating them into a continuous electronic live data stream providing price and volume data per financial instrument;

"data reporting services provider" means an APA, CTP or ARM and a person referred to in Article 27b(2) of MiFIR;

"DORA Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector and amending Regulations (EC) No 1060/2009, (EU) No 648/2012, (EU) No 600/ 2014, (EU) No 909/2014 and (EU) 2016/1011, as amended from time to time, and includes any binding legal instruments, guidelines and other measures that have been or may be issued thereunder;

"ESMA " means the European Securities and Markets Authority established by Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010;

"investment firm" means any person, other than persons to Directive, whose regular occupation or business is the provision of any one or more investment services to third parties on a professional basis;

"MiFID" means Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments as amended from time to time and includes any implementing measures that may have been or may be issued thereunder;

"MiFIR" means Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments as amended from time to time;

(2) Words and expressions used in the Acts shall, in these regulations, have the same meaning as is assigned to them in the Acts.