The Management Board of the exchange operating company, Wiener Börse AG, passed the resolution on 12 September 2012 to admit, under the regime of freedom of movement, BNP Paribas Securities Services S.C.A., Paris (France) from France as a member to the Vienna Stock Exchange and BNP PARIBAS Securities Services S.C.A., Frankfurt branch, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), from Germany, effective 17 September 2012.
The member BNP Paribas Securities Services S.C.A. will take part as a direct clearing member (General Clearing Member) through its branch office in Frankfurt in the clearing system for trades executed in trading on the cash market.
Trading in financial instruments in the Third Market operated as a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) is not based on any formal admission procedures to exchange trading.The requirements of the Stock Exchange Act regarding financial instruments admitted to trading on a regulated market, in particular, the obligations imposed on issuers do not apply to the financial instruments traded on the Third Market.