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Devised by the European Commission in March 2004, the first draft of the Services Directive propounded several important changes in the EU services market. Assuming every piece of regulation to be burdensome by default, the Directive required member states to justify all existing legislation on the grounds that it was non-discriminatory ...
MiFID 1 was a cornerstone of the European Commission's Financial Services Action Plan, whose measures changed how EU financial service markets operate. It is the most significant piece of legislation introduced in the Lamfalussy process designed to accelerate the adoption of legislation based on a four-level approach recommended by the ...
Non-financial reporting – Directive 2013/34/EU, concerning disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups, [13] also known as NFRD, [14] was amended by Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014. [15]
The Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2, Directive (EU) 2015/2366, [1] which replaced the Payment Services Directive (PSD), Directive 2007/64/EC [2]) is an EU Directive, administered by the European Commission (Directorate General Internal Market) to regulate payment services and payment service providers throughout the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA).
Directive 2014/17/EU and Directive 2014/59/EU Current legislation The Capital Requirements Directives ( CRD ) for the financial services industry have introduced a supervisory framework in the European Union which reflects the Basel II and Basel III rules on capital measurement and capital standards.
The Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC, "UCITS") [1] is a EU directive that allows collective investment schemes to operate freely throughout the EU on the basis of a single authorisation from one member state. EU member states are entitled to have additional regulatory requirements ...
Directive 2011/61/EU was prompted as part of a wider regulatory effort undertaken by G20 nations following the global market downturn of 2008. [11] [4] [12] Provisions of Directive 2011/61/EU include increasing transparency by AIFMs [1] [13] [14] and assuring that national supervisors, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), [15] [16] and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB ...
The European Commission responded with five imperatives for action that were agreed at the Vienna European Council in December 1998, and the Financial Services Action Plan was issued by the European Commission on 11 May 1999. The cornerstone of the action plan's achievement is the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID).