For copies of publicly available speeches made by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority on the topic of MiFID please go to: http://www.mifid.ie/IFSRASpeeches.html.  So of these may be repeated on http://www.complianceireland.com/Resources.html   Editor's Note: Please note that the content of this page and any document herein is copyright protected by the Financial Regulator.  We have placed this information on www.mifid.ie because it is often difficult to find the exact location of this material on the Financial Regulator’s website.  We endeavour to keep this page a mirror copy of the Financial Regulator’s material but you are warned that this may not always be the case and therefore you should visit www.financialregulator.ie on a regular basis to view first-hand its material.    As at 20th July 2008 there are eight (8) MiFID pages on the Financial Regulator's website: (1) Introduction page; (2) Implementation page; (3) Transaction Reporting page; (4) Pre and Post Trade Transparency; (5) Conduct of Business page; (6) Organisational Requirements page; (7) Authorisations page; and (8) CESR Documentation.   This is a copy of the Financial Regulator's MiFID Introduction page.  The links appearing below on this page will take you to the relevant page at www.financialregulator.ie.   Introduction   The MiFID is the most significant piece of financial services legislation agreed in recent times and applies to both Investment Firms and Credit Institutions when providing investment services.    The Statutory Instrument transposing the MiFID into Irish legislation was signed by the Minister for Finance on 15 February 2007.   Firms must be compliant with the provisions of the legislation by 1 November 2007.   The Financial Regulator have established a joint forum with industry to work on the implementation of the MiFID in Ireland.  As part of the implementation plan we have established a number of different workstreams - 14 in total dealing with various aspects of the MiFID.  Industry representatives have been invited to participate in a number of these working groups in particular those dealing with Conduct of Business, Organisational requirements and Transaction Reporting.  Minutes of meetings with external working groups are available.   List of shares published by CESR As required by the MiFID Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2006 of 10 August 2006 the relevant competent authorities have published information regarding all shares which are admitted to trading on a regulated market. The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has collected this information and published it on its website. The database can be accessed via the following link: http://mifiddatabase.cesr.eu.   Articles and editions of the Financial Regulator's publication "Regulatory Connection" on MiFID   Regulatory Connection October 2007 (Issue 12) MiFID Project update on pages 2 to 5 Regulatory Connection October 2007 (386 KB PDF)   Regulatory Connection May 2007 (Issue 11) MiFID Project update on pages 8 and 9 Regulatory Connection May 2007 (587.64 KB PDF)     Regulatory Connection March 2007 MiFID project update on page 13. MiFID referred to also on pages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 17 Regulatory Connection March 2007 (741.90 KB PDF)     Regulatory Connection January 2007 MiFID edition of Regulatory Connection January 2007 (344.96 KB PDF)     List of Relevant Legislation   European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations (No.2) 2007 S.I. No. 773 of 2007- European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations (No.2) 2007 (127.70 KB PDF)   Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 - Number 37 of 2007 (1.21 MB PDF)   Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 (Commencement) Order 2007 S.I. No. 730 of 2007- Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 (Commencement) Order 2007 (82.97 KB PDF)   European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 S.I. No. 663 of 2007- Statutory Instrument- European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations 2007   European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007 S.I. No. 60 of 2007 Regulations - European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007   Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2006 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2006 of 10 August 2006 implementing Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards record keeping obligations for investment firms, transaction reporting, market transparency, admission of financial instruments to trading, and defined terms for the purposes of that Directive.   Directive 2006/31/EC Directive 2006/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 amending directive 2004/39/EC on markets in financial instruments, as regards certain deadlines.   Commission Directive 2006/73/EC Commission Directive 2006/73/EC of 10 August 2006 implementing Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards organisational requirements and operating conditions for investment firms and defined terms for the purposes of that Directive   Directive 2004/39/EC Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments amending Council Directives 85/611/EEC and 93/6/EEC and Directive 2000/12?EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 93/22/EEC