Please note: On 4 December 2024, Regulation (EU) 2024/2809 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 amending Regulations (EU) 2017/1129, (EU) No 596/2014 and (EU) No 600/2014 to make public capital markets in the Union more attractive for companies and to facilitate access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (Listing Act) entered into force. In accordance with the resulting amendment of Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 (Market Abuse Regulation – MAR), trades must now only be disclosed to the public in an aggregated form. Under Article 5(3) of MAR as amended by the Listing Act, issuers must report all transactions relating to buy-back programmes to the competent authority of the most relevant market in terms of liquidity as referred to in Article 26(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014. This has no effect on the obligation to report to BaFin as the competent authority: as before, issuers must submit both a detailed and an aggregated report. You can therefore continue to use the existing form.
