J. whereas the decrease in transaction size has led to a reduction in the capacity of market participants to instantly execute large orders on a particular market and the desire to prevent market impact for large orders has encouraged the expansion of dark-pool trading; whereas less than 10% of all trading in EEA equities shares on organised markets use the MiFID pre-trade transparency waivers (CESR/10-394), whereas these MiFID waivers allows for dark-pool trading as a more transparent and better regulated alternative to dark trading in the OTC space but whereas the absence of sufficient regulation for OTC transactions, including Broke ...[+++]r Crossing Networks, provides a competitive advantage to the OTC space and encourages an increase in trading in the dark, undermining market transparency in general; whereas in total around half of trades are currently not covered by pre-trade transparency requirements, but half of OTC transactions are below market size and therefore do not require protection against market impact,

4. Backs the call for the compulsory introduction of CCP clearing between financial institutions for all eligible derivative products with a view to ensuring better assessment of counterparty credit risk, and supports the objective that as many eligible derivative products as possible should be traded on organised markets; calls for provision of incentives that encourage the trading of eligible derivative products on trading venues regulated by MiFID, i.e. on regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs); notes that one criterion for clearing eligibility must be liquidity;

4. Backs the call for the compulsory introduction of CCP clearing between financial institutions for all eligible derivative products with a view to ensuring better assessment of counterparty credit risk, and supports the objective that as many eligible derivative products as possible should be traded on organised markets; calls for provision of incentives that encourage the trading of eligible derivative products on trading venues regulated by MiFID, i.e. on regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs); notes that one criterion for clearing eligibility must be liquidity;

(4) It is appropriate to include in the list of financial instruments commodity derivatives which, not being physical spot or forward commodity contracts, are constituted and traded in such a way as to give rise to regulatory issues comparable to traditional financial instruments such as certain futures or options contracts traded on regulated markets or on a multilateral trading facility (MTF) which, even though they may be physically settled, possess the characteristics of financial instruments and swaps which are settled only in ca ...[+++]sh and where the amounts to be settled are calculated by reference to values of a full range of underlying prices, rates, indices and other measures.

(4) It is appropriate to include in the list of financial instruments commodity derivatives which, not being physical spot or forward commodity contracts, are constituted and traded in such a way as to give rise to regulatory issues comp arable to traditional financial instruments such as certain futures or options contracts traded on regulated markets or on a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) which, even though they may be physically settled, possess the characteristics of financial instruments and swaps which are settled only in c ...[+++]ash and where the amounts to be settled are calculated by reference to values of a full range of underlying prices, rates, indices and other measures.

* Should high-level principles for markets be restricted to publicly accessible trading in securities, or extended to organised in all financial instruments. Should high-level principles be tailored to the regulatory and supervisory risks associated with different types of market or trading- Which provisions should be applied in a graduated fashion-