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# Art. 23 — Conflicts of interest

1. Member States shall require investment firms to take all appropriate steps to identify and to prevent or manage conflicts of interest between themselves, including their managers, employees and tied agents, or any person directly or indirectly linked to them by control and their clients or between one client and another that arise in the course of providing any investment and ancillary services, or combinations thereof, including those caused by the receipt of inducements from third parties or by the [investment firm](https://headlesslaw.com/definitions/mifid-ii/investment-firm/)’s own remuneration and other incentive structures.
2. Where organisational or administrative arrangements made by the investment firm in accordance with [Article 16(3)](/mica.wtf/mifid-ii/title-ii-authorisation-and-operating-conditions-for-investment-firms-art.-5-43/16.md) to prevent conflicts of interest from adversely affecting the interest of its client are not sufficient to ensure, with reasonable confidence, that risks of damage to client interests will be prevented, the investment firm shall clearly disclose to the client the general nature and/or sources of conflicts of interest and the steps taken to mitigate those risks before undertaking business on its behalf.
3. The disclosure referred to in paragraph 2 shall:
   1. be made in a durable medium; and
   2. include sufficient detail, taking into account the nature of the client, to enable that client to take an informed decision with respect to the service in the context of which the conflict of interest arises.
4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with [Article 89](/mica.wtf/mifid-ii/title-vii-delegated-acts-art.-89-97/89.md) to:
   1. define the steps that investment firms might reasonably be expected to take to identify, prevent, manage and disclose conflicts of interest when providing various investment and ancillary services and combinations thereof;
   2. establish appropriate criteria for determining the types of conflict of interest whose existence may damage the interests of the clients or potential clients of the investment firm.


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