(3)In recent years more investors have become active in the financial markets and are offered an even more complex wide-ranging set of services and instruments. In view of those developments the legal framework of the Union should encompass the full range of investor-oriented activities. To that end, it is necessary to provide for the degree of harmonisation needed to offer investors a high level of protection and to allow investment firms to provide services throughout the Union, being an internal market, on the basis of home country supervision. Directive 93/22/EEC was therefore replaced by Directive 2004/39/EC.
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New version applies from 17/09/2014 — introduced by Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (CSDR).
275 provisions change.
Later versions: 01/07/2016, 01/10/2018, 31/12/2019, 26/03/2020, 26/06/2021, 10/11/2021, 01/01/2022, 28/02/2022, 23/03/2023, 09/01/2024, 28/03/2024, 17/01/2025, 06/06/2026.
Recital 3 changes in this version: compare with the current text.