
Article 1 
For the purposes of point 7 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the boards of trade designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as contract markets in the United States of America and set out in the Annex shall be considered as equivalent to regulated markets as defined in point 14 of Article 4(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 1 July 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Designated contract markets in the United States of America referred to in Article 1:

((a)) Cantor Futures Exchange, L.P.
((b)) CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC
((c)) Chicago Board of Trade (Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc.)
((d)) Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
((e)) Commodity Exchange, Inc.
((f)) ELX Futures, L.P.
((g)) Eris Exchange, LLC
((h)) ICE Futures U.S., Inc.
((i)) Minneapolis Grain Exchange, Inc.
((j)) New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
((k)) Nodal Exchange, LLC
((l)) North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc.
((m)) OneChicago LLC
((n)) TrueEX LLC
((o)) Nasdaq Futures, Inc.
