Investment service providers other than asset management companies that execute client orders shall monitor the effectiveness of their order execution arrangements and execution policy in order to identify and address any weaknesses. In particular, they shall regularly check whether the execution venues provided for in their order execution policy make it possible to obtain the best possible result for clients or whether they need to make changes to their execution arrangements in the light of the information available pursuant to Articles L. 420-17, L. 533-18-1, L. 533-19 and L. 533-33.
Each investment service provider other than an asset management company recognised as an execution venue by Article 1 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/575 of 8 June 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments with regulatory technical standards relating to the data to be published by execution platforms on the quality of execution of transactions shall make available to the public at least once a year, free of charge, the data relating to the quality of execution of transactions executed there. These periodic reports shall include detailed information on the price, costs, speed and likelihood of execution for the various financial instruments.
The obligations mentioned in the previous paragraph apply from 28 February 2023.
Investment services providers other than portfolio management companies shall notify clients with whom they have an ongoing relationship of any material change in their order execution arrangements or execution policy.