
Article 1 
For the purposes of point (7) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 authorised financial instrument exchanges and commodity exchanges in Japan 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, 15 December 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Financial instrument exchanges and commodity exchanges in Japan referred to in Article 1:

((a)) Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.;
((b)) Osaka Exchange, Inc.;
((c)) Nagoya Stock Exchange, Inc.;
((d)) Fukuoka Stock Exchange;
((e)) Sapporo Securities Exchange;
((f)) Tokyo Financial Exchange Inc.;
((g)) Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange;
((h)) Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc.
