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With this statement, Invest Europe welcomes the provisional agreement on the AIFMD review and recognises the efforts taken by regulators in taking into account the views expressed by our association during the lengthy legislative process.

Invest Europe congratulates the European Commission with the Implementing Regulation of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Invest Europe warmly welcomes the latest revisions to the Implementing Regulation which represents a meaningful improvement to the previous drafts and will serve to lighten much of the feared administrative burden associated with earlier versions.

In the coming months the European Commission is about to commence a comprehensive assessment of the SFDR framework. In this paper, we ask the ESAs to hold their pen and to ensure that any changes to the SFDR Delegated Regulation, including the list of PAI indicators, are tied as closely as possible to existing requirements in other regimes.

Invest Europe welcomes the EU’s ambition to lead on regulation on artificial intelligence. In order to ensure that the AI sector can continue to thrive, Invest Europe calls on the EU negotiating parties on the AI Act to ensure that there are no barriers to investment, trade, and innovation.

The CS3D proposal, developed by the Commission primarily with large non-financial companies in mind, still does not cater appropriately for investment firms in relation to their investment activities. It does not acknowledge a fundamental principle of company law: investors, as shareholders in a company do not systematically manage the businesses that they invest in. This paper outlines the core issues that policymakers need to resolve before agreeing on the final version of the Directive.

The presentation shows Brexit had a limited impact on private equity and venture capital activity.

This new Invest Europe members-only Guide aims to clear up some of the grey areas around the day-to-day application of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), as well as its interplay with the EU Taxonomy. It has been developed by industry experts, for practitioners, outlining current best practices and answering common questions.

This fifth Invest Europe webinar on the EU SFDR and its interaction with the Taxonomy Regulation focussed on the latest EU regulatory developments and recent market practices on how the rules are being applied on a day-to-day basis.

Invest Europe's feedback to the European Commission on the interim evaluation of the InvestEU programme. The feedback includes points on the operating conditions of the European Investment Fund, the type of aid that the Commission deploys to support European companies, as well as Invest Europe's key policy priorities.

In this letter to the European Commission, we reiterate our concerns about the required website disclosures under Article 10 SFDR, in particular in relation to confidentiality and international securities laws.

Invest Europe has written to EU leaders and relevant finance ministers on the EU response to the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ahead of the European Council meeting on 23/24 March. The EU response to the IRA should be considered as an opportunity to improve the EU investment landscape in order to allow European companies to thrive globally, without having to leave the bloc.

In this position paper Invest Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to further harmonise the insolvency law and procedure across the Member States. We fully support the principles behind the proposal, in particular the intention of shorter, more efficient and less court-led insolvency process.

In this position paper Invest Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to further harmonise the insolvency law across the Member States and fully supports the principles behind the proposal, in particular the intention of shorter, more efficient and less court-led insolvency process.

The Foreign Subsidies Regulation has been brought in to protect the EU from distortive foreign subsidies. There is serious concern within the private equity and venture capital industry that this regime will lead to a disproportionate and burdensome framework for our sector. This regime must do what it intends to do in targeting the handful of key problematic cases without creating an undue administrative overload for all market participants .