I.-With a view to providing the service referred to in Article L. 321-1.2, investment service providers other than portfolio management companies shall adopt and apply procedures to ensure that client orders are executed promptly and fairly in relation to orders from other clients or orders for their own account.
These procedures shall provide for the execution of client orders which are comparable, in particular with regard to their size, type and the nature of the financial instruments to which they relate, according to the time at which they are received by the providers.
After executing a transaction on behalf of their clients, ISPs shall inform clients where the order has been executed.
II – Where a client places a limit order for shares admitted to trading on a regulated market or traded on a trading venue that is not immediately executed under the conditions prevailing on the market, the investment service provider other than an asset management company shall, unless the client expressly instructs otherwise, take steps to facilitate the quickest possible execution of that order by making it immediately public in a form that is easily accessible to other market participants.
A limit order is an order to buy or sell a financial instrument at the specified price limit or more favourably and for a specified quantity.
The service provider is deemed to comply with the first paragraph if it transmits the order to a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility.
The first paragraph shall not apply to limit orders for an unusually large size within the meaning of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments.