
Article 1 
For the purposes of paragraph 6 of Article 25 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the legal and supervisory arrangements of the UAE consisting of the Regulations issued by the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), as complemented by the application of the Principles for Financial Markets Infrastructures enacted by SCA Board Decision No 11 of 2015, and applicable to CCPs authorised therein shall be considered to be equivalent to the requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) No 648/2012.
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