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Course: REMIT – The Prohibition of Insider Trading

About the online training programme

This training concerns the European Union regulation on wholesale Energy Market Integrity & Transparency (REMIT). This course is specifically aimed at the regulation’s prohibition of insider trading.

Course Contents

This course covers the following video lessons:

1. Prohibition of insider trading – Introduction
2. Definition of insider trading
3. Insider trading by using inside information
4. Insider trading by using inside information – Acquiring or disposing of wholesale energy product
5. Insider trading by using inside information – For one’s own account or for the account of a third party
6. Insider trading by using inside information – Directly or indirectly
7. Insider trading by using inside information – Wholesale energy products to which information relates
8. An example concerning the use of inside information – Lacking timely update of UMM
9. An example concerning the use of inside information – Front running
10. Insider trading by disclosing inside information – Introduction
11. Insider trading by disclosing inside information – Disclosure of (inside) information to any other person
12. Insider trading by disclosing inside information – The disclosure is not made in the normal course of the exercise of employment, profession or duties
13. Example – Insider trading by disclosing inside information
14. Insider trading by recommending or inducing trading on the basis of inside information
15. Insider trading by recommending or inducing trading on the basis of inside information – Example
16. Indicators of insider trading
17. Types of practices
18. Scope of the provision
19. Examples of insiders
20. Example – The responsibility of natural and legal persons
21. Persons who know or ought to know that some item of information is inside information
22. Exemption from the application of the prohibition of insider trading – 1
23. Exemption from the application of the prohibition of insider trading – 2

This course also includes examination and certification.