Article 1, Point (9) · Regulation (EU) 2021/168

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(9)in Article 51, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:‘5.Unless the Commission has adopted an equivalence decision as referred to in paragraph (2) or (3) of Article 30, an administrator has been recognised pursuant to Article 32 or a benchmark has been endorsed pursuant to Article 33, the use in the Union by supervised entities of a third-country benchmark shall be permitted only for financial instruments, financial contracts and measurements of the performance of an investment fund that already reference that benchmark or which add a reference to such benchmark before 31 December 2023.The first subparagraph shall not apply to benchmarks provided by administrators who relocate from the Union to a third country during the transitional period. The competent authority shall notify ESMA in accordance with Article 35. ESMA shall draw up a list of third-country benchmarks to which the first subparagraph does not apply.’;