31It can be seen from recitals 10, 18 and 19 of that directive that its aim is ‘to ensure investor protection and market efficiency’, that the provision of full information concerning securities ‘provides an effective means of increasing confidence in [those] securities and thus of contributing to the proper functioning and development of securities markets’ and that ‘[s]afeguards for the protection of the interests of actual and potential investors are required in all Member States in order to enable them to make an informed assessment of [the] risks [involved in investment in securities] and thus to take investment decisions in full knowledge of the facts.’
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