Recital 4

(4)In light of information received from the People's Republic of China, the Commission prepared and presented to the European Parliament and to the Council a report assessing the international treatment of the People's Bank of China. That report ³ concluded that it is appropriate to grant an exemption from pre- and post-trade transparency requirements in Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 to the central bank of the People's Republic of China. Accordingly, the list of exempted public entities set out in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1799 should be amended to include the People's Bank of China.