Tough new rules proposed by the European Union for financial benchmarks would seriously threaten oil price reporting agencies (PRAs), industry sources say, as they could impose huge liabilities on oil publishers and participants. Oil price reporting agencies were already under renewed scrutiny after European authorities raided the London office of lead price publisher Platts -- a unit of McGraw Hill -- as well as oil majors BP, Shell and Statoil, saying they suspected oil prices had been manipulated (OD Jun.5'13).
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机译：业内消息人士称，欧盟针对金融基准制定的严格新规定将严重威胁石油价格报告机构（PRA），因为它们可能给石油发行商和参与者带来巨大的债务。在欧洲当局突袭了主要价格发行商普氏能源资讯公司伦敦办事处（麦格劳·希尔的子公司）以及石油巨头英国石油公司，壳牌石油和挪威国家石油公司之后，石油价格报告机构已经受到了重新审查，他们表示怀疑石油价格已经受到操纵（ OD 13年5月5日）。
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