Article 22 - Specific requirements for trading venues permitting sponsored access (Article 48(7) of Directive 2014/65/EU)

1. Trading venues shall make the provision of sponsored access subject to their authorisation and shall require that firms having sponsored access are subject to at least the same controls as those referred to in Article 18(3)(b).

2. Trading venues shall ensure that sponsored access providers are at all times exclusively entitled to set or modify the parameters that apply to the controls referred to in paragraph 1 over the order flow of their sponsored access clients.

3. Trading venues shall be able to suspend or withdraw the provision of sponsored access to clients having infringed Directive 2014/65/EU, Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) No 600/2014 ⁴ and (EU) No 596/2014 ⁵ or the trading venue's internal rules.