Strasbourg, 22/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 13 December, the Parliament adopted at first reading the report by Piia-Noora Kauppi (EPP-ED, Finland) on the amendments to be made to Directive 2004/39/EC on the markets in financial instruments (codecision). The EP calls for the deadlines for transposition of the directive to be postponed by 18 months in all, while the Commission had initially suggested pushing the deadline forward by six months for the change in national legislation and by six...