(2) If the licensee is operating in a francophone market, it shall distribute, in that market in a single package of programming services, all the French-language Category A services that it does not otherwise distribute in that market under paragraph 17(1)(g), before it distributes any of those services in other packages of programming services or on a stand-alone basis.

Together with the proposal for a Regulation on "OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories" (EMIR) adopted by the European Commission on 15th September 2010 and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID, currently under review), it will form a framework in which systemically important securities infrastructures (trading venues, central counterparties, trade repositories and central securities depositories) are subject to common rules on a European level.

Assuming that Canada's equity markets grow by a modest 5 per cent per year over this period, the CPPIB's share of the domestic equity market would increase from 1 per cent to only 3 per cent.

On the request of the competent authority of a Member State, the Commission shall adopt equivalence decisions in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(2), stating whether the legal and supervisory framework of a third country ensures that a regulated market authorised in that third country complies with legally binding requirements which are, for the purpose of the application of the exemption under point (e), equivalent to the requirements resulting from Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) , from Title III of Directive 20 ...[+++]04/39/EC and from Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2004 on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market , and which are subject to effective supervision and enforcement in that third country.

On the request of the competent authority of a Member State, the Commission shall adopt equivalence decisions in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(2), stating whether the legal and supervisory framework of a third country ensures that a regulated market authorised in that third country complies with legally binding requirements which are, for the purpose of the application of the exemption under point (e), equivalent to the requirements resulting from Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) , from Title III of Directive 20 ...[+++]04/39/EC and from Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2004 on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market , and which are subject to effective supervision and enforcement in that third country.

Proximity to the United States and relatively low barriers to entry for foreign securities dealers, free movement of capital and an increasingly North American focus of many large Canadian corporations have made the securities and derivatives markets be more competitive.