3.

"Financial instrument" shall mean: transferable securities as defined in Council Directive 93/22/EEC of 10 May 1993 on investment services in the securities field(9), units in collective investment undertakings, money-market instruments, financial-futures contracts, including equivalent cash-settled instruments, forward interest-rate agreements, interest-rate, currency and equity swaps, options to acquire or dispose of any instrument falling into these categories, including equivalent cash-settled instruments. This category includes in particular options on currency and on interest rates, derivatives on commodities, any other instrument admitted to trading on a regulated market in a Member State or for which a request for admission to trading on such a market has been made.

← art_1__para_2__continuation__3 · All articles · - →

Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.