DIRECTIVE 2001/34/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 28 May 2001
on the admission of securities to official stock exchange listing and on information to be published on those securities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
RECITALS
TITLE I: DEFINITIONS AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION
Chapter I: Definitions
Article 1
Chapter II: Scope of application
Article 2
TITLE II: GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE OFFICIAL LISTING OF SECURITIES
Chapter I: General conditions for admission
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7
Chapter II: More stringent or additional conditions and obligations
Article 8
Chapter III: Derogations
Article 9
Article 10
Chapter IV: Powers of the national competent authorities
Section 1: Decision of admission
Article 11
Article 12
Article 13
Article 14
Article 15
Section 2: Information requested by the competent authorities
Article 16
Section 3: Actions against an issuer failing to comply to the obligations resulting from admission
Article 17
Section 4: Suspension and discontinuance
Article 18
Section 5: Right to apply to the courts in case of refusal of admission or discontinuance
Article 19
TITLE III: PARTICULAR CONDITIONS RELATING TO OFFICIAL LISTING OF SECURITIES
Chapter I: Publication of listing particulars for admission
Section 1: General provisions
Section 2: Partial or complete exemption from the obligation to publish listing particulars
Section 3: Permitted omission from the listing particulars of certain information
Section 4: Contents of the listing of particulars in certain specific cases
Section 5: Control and circulation of listing particulars
Section 6: Determination of the competent authority
Section 7: Mutual recognition
Section 8: Negotiations with non-member countries
Chapter II: Particular conditions for the admission of shares
Section 1: Conditions relating to companies for the shares of which admission to official listing is sought
Article 42
Article 43
Article 44
Section 2: Conditions relating to the shares for which admission is sought
Article 45
Article 46
Article 47
Article 48
Article 49
Article 50
Article 51
Chapter III: Particular conditions relating to the admission to the official listing of debt securities issued by an undertaking
Section 1: Conditions relating to undertakings for the debt securities of which admission to official listing is sought
Article 52
Section 2: Conditions relating to the debt securities for which admission to official listing is sought
Article 53
Article 54
Article 55
Article 56
Article 57
Section 3: Other conditions
Article 58
Article 59
Chapter IV: Particular conditions relating to the admission to official listing of debt securities issued by a State, its regional or local authorities or a public international body
Article 60
Article 61
Article 62
Article 63
TITLE IV: ONGOING OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO SECURITIES ADMITTED TO OFFICIAL LISTING
Chapter I: Obligations of companies whose shares are admitted to official listing
Section 1: Listing of newly issued shares of the same class
Article 64
Section 2: Treatment of shareholders
Section 3: Amendment of the instrument of incorporation or the statutes
Section 4: Annual accounts and annual report
Section 5: Additional information
Section 6: Equivalence of information
Section 7: Periodical information to be published
Section 8: Publication and contents of the half-yearly report
Chapter II: Obligation of issuers whose debt securities are admitted to official listing
Section 1: Debt securities issued by an undertaking
Section 2: Debt securities issued by a State or its regional or local authorities or by a public international body
Chapter III: Obligations relating to the information to be published when a major holding in a listed company is acquired or disposed of
Section 1: General provisions
Section 2: Information when a major holding is acquired or disposed of
Section 3: Determination of the voting rights
Section 4: Exemptions
Section 5: Competent authorities
Section 6: Sanctions
TITLE V: PUBLICATION AND COMMUNICATION OF THE INFORMATION
Chapter I: Publication and communication of listing particulars for the admission of securities to the official stock exchange listing
Section 1: Procedures and period of publication of listing particulars and their supplements
Section 2: Prior communication to the competent authorities of the means of publication
Chapter II: Publication and communication of information after listing
Chapter III: Languages
TITLE VI: COMPETENT AUTHORITIES AND COOPERATION BETWEEN MEMBER STATES
Article 105
Article 106
Article 107
TITLE VII: CONTACT COMMITTEE
Chapter 1: Composition, working and tasks of the Committee
Chapter II: Adaptation of the amount of equity market capitalisation
Article 109
TITLE VIII: FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 110
Article 111
Article 112
Article 113
Annex II — Part A: Repealed Directives and their successive amendments
Annex II — Part B: Deadlines for transposition into national law
Annex III — Correlation table
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 44 and 95 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(1),
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(2),
Whereas:
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: