Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288, setting out the regulatory technical standards (RTS) to be used by financial market participants (FMPs) when disclosing sustainability-related information under the Sustainable...more
A brief recap – ESAs’ January 2021 letter to the EU Commission, EU Commission response and adoption of RTS
Signed by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 27 November 2019 and published in the...more
Summary -
On 6 April 2022, the European Commission announced that is has adopted the regulatory technical standards to be used by financial market participants when disclosing sustainability-related information under the...more
4/8/2022
/ Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Market Participants ,
New Regulations ,
RTS ,
SFDR ,
Sustainable Finance
In a letter dated 25 November 2021, the European Commission’s Director-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (the Director-General) confirmed that the date of application of the...more
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) empowered the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to develop draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on taxonomy-related product disclosures. On 15 March 2021, the...more
A brief recap - ESAs' letter to the EU Commission January 2021 On 7 January 2021 – less than eight weeks before the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)1 ‘go live’ date – the Chair of the Joint Committee of the...more
Introduction -
On 10 March 2021, the main operative provisions of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (2019/2088) (SFDR) began to apply. However, rather than marking the end of the ESG journey, it is just the...more
6/28/2021
/ Capital Markets ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
Green Finance ,
Investment ,
Investment Management ,
Sustainability ,
Sustainable Finance
In light of the looming 10 March 2021 deadlines for both the SFDR (the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU) 2019/2088) and the AMF Position/Recommendation DOC-2020-03 (the “AMF Doctrine”),1 the AMF published a press...more
1/26/2021
/ AMF Doctrine ,
Business Plans ,
Business Strategies ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
Investment ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
SFDR
Whilst to date no formal announcement has been made by the European Commission, in a letter to two trade associations (the German Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management (BVI) and the Italian Assogestioni) the...more