The European Commission announced on Monday 17 December that it had proposed to extend the equivalence for the Swiss stock exchange by six months until 30 June 2019.
Commissioner Johannes Hahn, responsible for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, confirmed a decision that had already been taken on 11 December in Strasbourg (see EUROPE 12157). The adoption procedure (comitology) for this extension was launched on Friday 14 December with the Member States and will end on...