In response to growing cross-border regulation, the Commodity Markets Council – Europe (CMCE) was formed in 2012. CMCE is comprised of agriculture, energy, metals and other commodity market participants, price reporting agencies, and trading venues established and/or operating in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and neighbouring countries.

CMC Europe 2019 Work Plan

CMCE faces a busy legislative and regulatory agenda in 2018. Priorities include:

• Brexit & implications for commodity trading markets
• Application of MiFID II / MiFIR
• Review of the reporting, clearing and collateral requirements for OTC derivatives
• Implementation of the EU Benchmarks regulation
• Market abuse regime
• Awareness raising on the importance of the commodity derivative markets
• Prudential requirements for commodity dealer investment firms