Licensing and approvals
The lead state authority can issue, amend, suspend, extend, withdraw, and recognize licences or approvals under the law.
Art. 8(2)(b) / draft-law-md
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Defined terms
Article 3 supplies the key vocabulary that will drive market scope, onboarding, and product-perimeter work.
| Term | Note | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Underlying commodity | Goods or commodity price index used as the reference asset. | Art. 3(1)-(2) |
| Commodity derivative | Derivative contract whose value or obligations depend on one or more underlying commodities. | Art. 3(3) |
| Forward | Bilateral derivative with future delivery or cash settlement by agreed price formula. | Art. 3(4) |
| Futures | Standardized exchange-listed contract subject to central clearing. | Art. 3(5) |
| Option | Paid right without obligation for buyer; seller must perform if exercised. | Art. 3(6) |
| Swap | Future cash-flow exchange tied to commodity price or index formulas. | Art. 3(7) |
| CFD | Cash-settled difference contract with no physical delivery obligation. | Art. 3(8) |
| Central clearing | CCP stands between buyers and sellers for clearing and risk control. | Art. 3(9) |
| Position limit | Maximum contract quantity allowed per participant or maturity bucket. | Art. 3(11) |
| Settlement finality | Completed settlement or delivery becomes irrevocable and unconditional. | Art. 3(17) |
| Close-out netting | Early termination and netting into one enforceable net obligation. | Art. 3(18) |
| Bona fide hedging | Derivative use to reduce commercial exposure from production, financing, or trade activity. | Art. 3(21) |
| Approved warehouse | Warehouse approved for derivatives delivery support. | Art. 3(22) |
| Warehouse receipt | Paper or electronic receipt issued after actual intake of goods. | Art. 3(23) |
| Market linkage | Cross-market connection with exchanges, CCPs, or other market infrastructure. | Art. 3(29) |
| Professional investor | Investor meeting financial capacity, experience, and expertise tests set by the Government. | Art. 3(31) |
| OTC market | Derivatives market transacted outside the exchange trading system on negotiated terms. | Art. 3(35) |
| Source | draft-law-md | Art. 3 |
Regulator powers
The draft gives the lead authority a broad supervisory and intervention toolkit.
Data and explanations
Authorities can demand reports, data, files, explanations, and attendance from exchanges, CCPs, members, and related actors.
Art. 8(2)(d)-(e) / draft-law-md
Emergency intervention
Authorities may require account freezes, trading suspensions, and other preventative measures in line with law.
Art. 8(2)(g), Art. 46 / draft-law-md
Illegal platform blocking
Authorities may require termination or blocking of websites, apps, or payment intermediaries used to provide unauthorized derivatives services.
Art. 8(2)(h) / draft-law-md
Cross-border oversight
The authority can approve, refuse, amend, suspend, or terminate market-linkage arrangements and require extra controls.
Art. 33(2)-(3) / draft-law-md
Exchange and intermediary obligations
Operational duty runs from venue-level systems through customer handling and clearing accountability.
Exchange setup and operation
An exchange must maintain licensing conditions, safe trading systems, transparent rules, real-time surveillance, and regulator data connections.
Art. 10-12 / draft-law-md
Approved warehouses and delivery infrastructure
The exchange must approve delivery members and warehouses, supervise inspection and logistics, and maintain delivery rules.
Art. 12(4), Art. 25-26 / draft-law-md
Position and market-risk controls
The exchange must apply position limits, price limits, circuit breakers, and other risk controls, including exemptions for bona fide hedging.
Art. 12(6), Art. 23(5), Art. 27 / draft-law-md
Member conduct
Trading and brokerage members must segregate customer assets, execute customer orders objectively, classify customers, and control conflicts.
Art. 34(5) / draft-law-md
Clearing member liability
Clearing members are directly and unconditionally liable to the CCP for obligations on their clearing accounts, including customer activity.
Art. 35(5) / draft-law-md
OTC boundaries
The draft permits organized OTC activity, but not as an unbounded workaround to venue and investor-protection rules.
What OTC covers
Forwards, non-standardized options, swaps, and CFDs can be arranged on negotiated terms through the exchange or the OTC market.
Art. 29(1) / draft-law-md
What OTC does not waive
Negotiated freedom still sits inside this law, civil law, and related legislation; the Government may still impose reporting and central-clearing obligations.
Art. 29(2)-(4) / draft-law-md
Who can intermediate
OTC intermediaries can include the exchange, the CCP, members, credit institutions, and other lawful organizations.
Art. 30(1) / draft-law-md
Retail boundary
Non-professional investors cannot trade swaps or CFDs, which sharply narrows whom OTC speculative products can target legally.
Art. 36(3) / draft-law-md
Article-by-article notes
Compact notes for every numbered article in the converted working draft.
| Article | Heading | Note | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scope | Covers commodity derivatives, market organization, participant rights, and state management. | Art. 1 |
| 2 | Applicability | Applies to participants, regulators, and related actors. | Art. 2 |
| 3 | Definitions | Defines products, clearing concepts, position controls, warehouses, investors, and the OTC market. | Art. 3 |
| 4 | Market principles | Recognizes both exchange and OTC trading under transparency and risk-control principles. | Art. 4 |
| 5 | Development policy | Supports modernization, export-linked products, and internationally relevant benchmarks. | Art. 5 |
| 6 | Sandbox | Allows controlled experimentation for new models, products, technology, and services. | Art. 6 |
| 7 | Prohibited acts | Bans fraud, insider dealing, manipulation, unauthorized services, and abusive marketing. | Art. 7 |
| 8 | State management | Sets regulator powers over rulemaking, licensing, supervision, data access, and intervention. | Art. 8 |
| 9 | Reporting and data links | Requires reporting and transaction-data connectivity to authorities. | Art. 9 |
| 10 | Exchange licensing | Sets exchange establishment conditions and a 49 percent aggregate foreign cap. | Art. 10 |
| 11 | Exchange rights | Gives the exchange authority over products, trading rules, fees, membership, and linkage. | Art. 11 |
| 12 | Exchange duties | Requires safe systems, surveillance, data sharing, disclosure, and training. | Art. 12 |
| 13 | Exchange suspension and revocation | Provides for suspension, licence withdrawal, and orderly wind-down planning. | Art. 13 |
| 14 | CCP licensing | Sets CCP establishment conditions, independence, and trade-repository function. | Art. 14 |
| 15 | Collateral management | Defines margin classes, segregation, asset-quality rules, and anti-rehypothecation limits. | Art. 15 |
| 16 | Default fund | Requires a separate guarantee fund with prefunded CCP skin-in-the-game and stress capacity. | Art. 16 |
| 17 | Default management | Sets default triggers, tools, waterfall, and customer-protection principles. | Art. 17 |
| 18 | CCP rights and duties | Authorizes clearing enforcement while imposing disclosure, data, and risk-governance duties. | Art. 18 |
| 19 | Finality and close-out netting | Protects irrevocability, collateral enforcement, and customer asset transfer in insolvency. | Art. 19 |
| 20 | CCP suspension and revocation | Mirrors orderly discipline and continuity protections for the CCP. | Art. 20 |
| 21 | Self-regulatory powers | Allows the exchange and the CCP to self-regulate under procedural fairness and state override. | Art. 21 |
| 22 | Listing and delisting | Sets exchange-listing eligibility for standardized products and linked foreign contracts. | Art. 22 |
| 23 | Trading principles | Provides matching methods plus controls for algorithms, high-frequency trading, blocks, and emergencies. | Art. 23 |
| 24 | Reference and settlement prices | Requires objective, transparent, and auditable pricing methods. | Art. 24 |
| 25 | Settlement and delivery | Recognizes cash settlement or physical delivery with CCP coordination. | Art. 25 |
| 26 | Warehouse receipts | Creates legal support for transferable paper or electronic warehouse receipts. | Art. 26 |
| 27 | Position limits | Sets position-limit architecture and hedging exemptions. | Art. 27 |
| 28 | Spot and derivatives markets | Allows combined venue operation with segregation of products, assets, and risk. | Art. 28 |
| 29 | OTC principles | Permits negotiated forwards, swaps, CFDs, and bespoke options with possible reporting and clearing rules. | Art. 29 |
| 30 | OTC intermediaries | Defines who may intermediate and requires fair conduct plus trade-repository reporting. | Art. 30 |
| 31 | Cross-border linkage principles | Conditions linkage on legal compliance, system safety, and anti-AML controls. | Art. 31 |
| 32 | Cross-border mechanisms | Allows multiple linkage models and overseas foreign-exchange support for eligible margin obligations. | Art. 32 |
| 33 | Linkage process | Requires approval, due diligence, monitoring, and termination powers. | Art. 33 |
| 34 | Exchange members | Creates dealing, brokerage, and delivery-member categories with customer-protection duties. | Art. 34 |
| 35 | CCP members | Creates direct and general clearing-member models and direct liability to the CCP. | Art. 35 |
| 36 | Investors | Allows domestic and foreign participation, but reserves swaps and CFDs to professional investors. | Art. 36 |
| 37 | Investor rights and duties | Confirms trading, ownership, disclosure, complaint, and compliance obligations. | Art. 37 |
| 38 | Investor protection | Requires segregation, traceability, deficit reporting, and transfer or return on insolvency. | Art. 38 |
| 39 | Professional licensing | Requires professional certificates for practitioners, with details delegated. | Art. 39 |
| 40 | State-owned enterprises | Permits hedging under documented policy, limits, and capital-preservation safeguards. | Art. 40 |
| 41 | Credit institutions | Permits banks and foreign bank branches to deal, hedge, intermediate, and clear within approvals. | Art. 41 |
| 42 | Systemic risk principles | Requires full-stack risk management, surveillance, stress testing, and continuity planning. | Art. 42 |
| 43 | Operational resilience | Mandates continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience planning. | Art. 43 |
| 44 | Market surveillance and early warning | Builds concentrated surveillance, alerts, and pre-emptive control powers. | Art. 44 |
| 45 | CCP risk framework | Specifies margin, valuation, liquidity, default resources, and recovery planning. | Art. 45 |
| 46 | Emergency intervention | Allows position, margin, trading, and disclosure interventions in stressed conditions. | Art. 46 |
| 47 | Violation handling | Sets high monetary penalties and confiscatory remedies for abusive conduct. | Art. 47 |
| 48 | Dispute resolution | Permits negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or court without pausing core risk controls. | Art. 48 |
| 49 | Compensation | Creates civil liability for misconduct and infrastructure failures causing direct loss. | Art. 49 |
| 50 | Effectiveness | Proposes effectiveness from 01 Jul 2027 and repeal of legacy Commercial Law derivatives provisions. | Art. 50 |
| 51 | Transition | Allows legacy operators and products transition periods and preserves existing lawful contracts. | Art. 51 |
| 52 | Implementation responsibility | Delegates detailed rulemaking to the Government across key operating areas. | Art. 52 |
| Source | draft-law-md | Converted draft law markdown | Primary source |
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Draft Law on Commodity Derivatives Trading (markdown conversion)
Primary text used for article citations, defined terms, powers, obligations, OTC boundaries, foreign-access analysis, and implementation timing.
Draft project: Law on Commodity Derivatives Trading
Primary draft-project posting and public-comment window.
Government approves five major policy groups
Reports Resolution 220/NQ-CP and the policy frame for the specialized law.
Appraisal meeting for the draft law file
Describes draft scope, chapter count, article count, and boundary issues.
Decree 302/2026/ND-CP on commodity exchanges
Summarizes exchange establishment, licensing, technology, and procedure requirements.
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