A listing on the stock exchange requires compliance with certain legal requirements. These requirements should give investors a solid basis for reaching investment decisions. Therefore, the criteria for an exchange listing and the subsequent ongoing obligations focus mainly on the issues of minimum size and period of existence of the company, minimum free float of the stocks as well as information for investors in publications for shareholders (e.g. financial reports and ad hoc disclosures).
Basically, there are two paths to the capital market for companies in Europe: First, there are the EU-regulated markets and, second, there are markets regulated by the stock exchanges themselves and operated as multilateral trading facilities (MTF).
Explanation of the market structure
Details about the Market Segments
prime market
standard market
direct market plus
direct market
global market
Downloads
The Vienna Stock Exchange: The best market for your company (pdf-file 700 KB)
direct market plus – The Easy Way to the Capital Market (PDF-File 1.2 MB)
direct market plus - The easy way to the capital market (pdf-file 1.2 MB - Italian version)
Overview: Requirements sorted by market segments (pdf-file 50 KB)
Admission to listing – Regulated Markets (pdf-file 60 KB)
Inclusion in trading – Third Market (pdf-file 50 KB)
Application for trading of shares on the Third Market (docx-file 70 KB)
Stock exchange act (pdf-file 888 KB)
Market segmentation (pdf-file 1.8 MB)
Rules prime market (pdf-file 160 KB)
Rules direct market plus (pdf-file 500 KB)