Closed period rules/30 days10 Sep 2018 14:26
Under Article 19(11) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the period of 30 calendar days before the announcement of an interim financial report or a year-end report, that an issuer is obliged to make public according to the rules of the trading venue where the issuer's shares are admitted to trading or national law, during which a person discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMR) of an issuer is prohibited from conducting any transactions on its own account or for the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, relating to the shares or debt instruments of the issuer or to derivatives or other financial instruments linked to them.
Note that, on 26 May 2016, the FCA announced that, pending clarification from the European Commission and ESMA, the FCA will continue to take the view that, where an issuer announces preliminary results, the closed period will be the 30-day closed period immediately before the preliminary results are announced, provided that the announcement of preliminary results contains all of the inside information expected to be included in the annual report. For more information, see Legal update, MAR: FCA position on closed periods.