(c) You are the Company Secretary of Green Grains Limited, a listed entity. In the last board meeting, one of the Board members wanted to understand the principles of fair disclosure under the SEBI (Prohibition of Inside

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(c) You are the Company Secretary of Green Grains Limited, a listed entity. In the last board meeting, one of the Board members wanted to understand the principles of fair disclosure under the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulation, 2015. Elaborate the requirements under the Codes of Fair Disclosure.

Answer & Explanation:

As per Regulation 8 of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015, the Principles of Fair Disclosure for purposes of Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information as covered in Schedule A to the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations 2015, shall be as follows: Prompt public disclosure of unpublished price sensitive information that would impact price discovery no sooner than credible and concrete information comes into being in order to make such information generally available, Uniform and universal dissemination of unpublished price sensitive information to avoid selective disclosure, Designation of a senior officer as a chief investor relations officer to deal with dissemination of information and disclosure of unpublished price sensitive information, Prompt dissemination of unpublished price sensitive information that gets disclosed selectively, inadvertently or otherwise to make such information generally available, Appropriate and fair response to queries on news reports and requests for verification of market rumours by regulatory authorities, Ensuring that information shared with analysts and research personnel is not unpublished price sensitive information, Developing best practices to make transcripts or records of proceedings of meetings with analysts and other investor relations conferences on the official website to ensure official confirmation and documentation of disclosures made, Handling of all unpublished price sensitive information on a need-to-know basis.

Topics: SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulation, 2015

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