CELEX: 62013CN0628
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-628/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 2 December 2013 — Jean-Bernard Lafonta v Autorité des marchés financiers

8.2.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 39/13
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 2 December 2013 — Jean-Bernard Lafonta v Autorité des marchés financiers
   (Case C-628/13)
   2014/C 39/20
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Cour de cassation
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Jean-Bernard Lafonta
   
      Respondent: Autorité des marchés financiers
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 1(1) of Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) (1) and Article 1(1) and (2) of Commission Directive 2003/124/EC of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition and public disclosure of inside information and the definition of market manipulation (2) be interpreted as meaning that only information in respect of which it may be determined, with a sufficient degree of probability, that, once it is made public, its potential effect on the prices of the financial instruments concerned will be in a particular direction may constitute inside information?
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 96, p. 16.
   
      (2)  OJ 2003 L 339, p. 70.