# Financial markets: short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps

European Parliament procedure 2010/0251(COD) (COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure), 7th term, committee ECON / JURI). Stage: Procedure completed. 433 committee amendments tabled by 21 Members between 2011-01-13 and 2011-01-26.

## What the amendments focus on

This dossier concerns financial markets rules on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps. Amendments define conditions for covered short sales such as having borrowed, agreed to borrow, or located the share or debt instrument, set rules for short selling at the bid or up-tick price, restrict uncovered credit default swaps on sovereign debt to holders of a long position, and propose prohibiting uncovered or naked short sales.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olle SCHMIDT | Sweden | ALDE | 80 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/4274.md |
| Robert GOEBBELS | Luxembourg | S&D | 70 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/4429.md |
| Syed KAMALL | United Kingdom | ECR | 56 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/33569.md |
| Thomas HÄNDEL | Germany | GUE/NGL | 32 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96851.md |
| Markus FERBER | Germany | PPE | 31 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/1917.md |
| Sharon BOWLES | United Kingdom | ALDE | 28 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/33570.md |
| Jürgen KLUTE | Germany | GUE/NGL | 22 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96769.md |
| Sylvie GOULARD | France | ALDE | 19 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/97137.md |
| Sajjad KARIM | United Kingdom | ECR | 18 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28481.md |
| Alfredo PALLONE | Italy | PPE | 17 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/97197.md |
| Herbert DORFMANN | Italy | PPE | 17 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96787.md |
| Burkhard BALZ | Germany | PPE | 15 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96997.md |
| Sebastian Valentin BODU | Romania | PPE | 15 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/39722.md |
| Eva LICHTENBERGER | Austria | Verts/ALE | 15 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28253.md |
| Corien WORTMANN-KOOL | Netherlands | PPE | 12 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28167.md |

## Official source documents

- PE456.688: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-456.688+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
- PE456.773: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-456.773+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
- PE456.805: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-456.805+02+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2010-0251-COD · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2010-0251-COD.json

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