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ESMA Publishes Guidelines on Funds' Names Using ESG or Sustainability-Related Terms

On 14 May 2024 ESMA published its long-awaited guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms (the Guidelines). The Guidelines apply three months after the date of their publication on ESMA’s website...more

Five Key Focus Areas of BaFin’s Sustainable Finance Strategy

On 5 July 2023, BaFin, Germany's financial supervisory authority, outlined its sustainable finance strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy focuses on five areas that BaFin views as key to supporting the transition to a more...more

Is the market ready for SFDR 1.5? ESAs propose changes to SFDR RTS

On 12 April 2023 – less than four months after the RTS under SFDR came into effect and four weeks after a further amended version of the RTS went live, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a consultation...more

CSSF SFDR/ Sustainable Finance Related Developments March/April 2023

Background- European regulators have begun reviewing documentation and other information in connection with implementation of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)1 and the Taxonomy Regulation (RTS).2 On...more

Luxembourg’s CSSF SFDR Guidance: What You Need to Know

On 2 December 2022, Luxembourg’s supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published an FAQ that seeks to clarify certain items under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation...more

ESAs publish Q&A on the SFDR RTS

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

CP22/20: Further leaves unfurl on the tree of the UK ESG regime

After some delay, the United Kingdom’s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) has published Consultation Paper CP 22/20 (Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR”) and investment labels)...more

The German Financial Regulator BaFin clarifies the EU Commission’s Q&As regarding SFDR

The German Financial Regulator, ("BaFin"), published guidance ("Guidance") on 5 September 2022, that provides some further clarity on various questions on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ("SFDR"). BaFin has...more

ESG Alert – CSSF announces Fast Track Approval Process for SFDR Level 2 disclosures

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the Luxembourg financial services regulator, on 27 July 2022 issued a communication to the investment fund industry reminding it of the deadline of 1 January 2023...more

RTS under the SFDR published in the Official Journal

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

SFDR – April/May 2022 developments - ESAs submit SFDR queries to the EU Commission

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

EU Commission adopts RTS under the SFDR

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

FCA Policy Statement on Enhancing Climate-Related Disclosures by UK Asset Managers

As set out in our earlier OnPoint, “Is Brexit Green?”, the UK has adopted a different approach to regulating ESG in the asset management sector compared to the EU by not “on-shoring” the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure...more

Application of RTS under the SFDR – further delayed to 1 January 2023

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

EU Commission Publishes Final Draft RTS Under SFDR

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

EU Commission Publishes Q&A on the application of SFDR

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

ESAs publish final report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards for SFDR

On 4 February 2021, less than six weeks before the 10 March 2021 date on which the main operative provisions of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) start to apply, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)...more

AMF ESG Doctrine: Goldplating SFDR by another name?

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

Preparing for SFDR

A brief recap - The main operative provisions of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will apply from 10 March 2021. The SFDR included provisions requiring the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to...more

ESG Snapshot: Rules and Practice: SFDR: Regulatory Technical Standards: disharmonious delay?

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

ESA’s consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

The draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) set out detailed information relating to the content, methodology and presentation of certain environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures required under the EU...more

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