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This response, provided on behalf of Invest Europe listed members, highlights various problems with the PRIIPs Regulation, including issues with the highly prescriptive format requirements in disclosure, in light of the potential review of PRIIPs in the UK.

In this letter Invest Europe teams up with other trade associations to call on EU Institutions to extend the temporary exemption under EMIR for equity options. The request was made to ensure there are no adverse effects from equity options becoming temporarily subject to bilateral margining requirements.

The new EU Regulation on ESG disclosures (SFDR) has been applicable since March 2021.

In this response, we express serious concerns about the introduction of the proposed guidelines on funds’ names, which we believe amounts to rulemaking which is not within the powers of ESMA. Should ESMA nonetheless introduce guidelines, we urge ESMA inter alia to include more elaborate grandfathering and transitional relief and to delete the suggested minimum safeguards.

Get fully up-to-date on the new European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) framework by listening to this webinar.

Invest Europe replied to the BEFIT public consultation. In this document Invest Europe supports the main objectives of BEFIT as set out in the Call for Evidence, but in addition recognises the need for further clarifications due to the high-level description of the BEFIT rules.

In this response, we share our views on the possible features and risks of greenwashing in the financial services sector. Among others, we note that the complexity, lack of clarity around key concepts and moving goalposts with each iteration of guidance/Q&As under the current SFDR regime are a major source of greenwashing risk.

In this response Invest Europe comments on the inadequacy of the concept of a "single undertaking" which does not sufficiently take into consideration the nature of private equity investments, at the risk of making it harder for private equity-backed businesses to receive financial support from the state.

During this Members' Policy Call, Invest Europe members were given an in-depth presentation of the InvestEU Programme by the European Investment Fund (EIF).

This Handbook has been developed as a user-friendly overview of EU funding opportunities intended to bridge the information gap for our members, linking innovators with the public bodies mandated to support them. This document lays out the multiple EU funding opportunities that exist, both for fund managers and for the portfolio companies they invest into. It covers financing in areas as wide as innovation, transport, energy, healthcare and life sciences, and cohesion.

The fundamental differences between trade group and private equity ownership models.

Comments on the inappropriateness of the use of the definition of 'subsidiary' definition within the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). Document includes Invest Europe suggestion for a way forward.

This is Invest Europe's one-pager outlining the main concerns for the private equity and venture capital industry within the European Commission's proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). While Invest Europe welcomes the spirit of the proposal, certain changes will need to be made for the Directive to be workable in practice.

This position paper looks at the potential conflicting and overlapping requirements between the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).