On November 17, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA“) launched a database of financial instruments that have been suspended or removed from trading under Article 41 of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (2004/39/EC) (“MiFID“).

The database contains information about suspensions and removals that has been notified to ESMA under Article 41(2) of MiFID. According to an accompanying press release, the database covers financial instruments admitted to trading in European regulated markets and displays a list of the current suspensions in these markets, but not suspensions linked to them. The database also allows searching for instrument currently or previously suspended to consult the key details of its suspensions.