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This webinar brought experts together to discuss the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and how it will impact our sector.

During this webinar, Invest Europe was joined by experts from the European Investment Fund (EIF) to discuss the upcoming renewed launch of the European Scale-up Action for Risk Capital (ESCALAR).

In this letter Invest Europe showed its commitment to assist EIOPA in its future policy and supervisory roles, including the upcoming review of IORP.

In this response, Invest Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal of the Directive on Faster and Safer Relief of Excess Withholding Taxes and the initiative to introduce a common EU-wide system for withholding tax on dividend or interest payments, as we encourage the idea of removing tax barriers to cross-border investment.

Having responded to the European Commission's public consultation in July 2023, Invest Europe was invited to respond to the more detailed questionnaire on the review of the EU's framework for Foreign Direct Investments.

In this response, Invest Europe comments on ESMA ELTIF drafts standards on cost disclosure and liquidity provisions. On the latter, we suggest that ESMA allow future ELTIF managers to use diverse methods to ensure the liquidity of funds offered to retail investors.

Banks and credit institutions, like other financial market operators, are required to meet certain capital requirements and other prudential standards in order to ensure their resilience, particularly during times of market stress.

EU law oversees the conditions for the issuance of securities on public markets. The Prospectus legislation, first adopted in 2003 and last revised in 2016, sets out the information to be disclosed in the listing prospectus, which is made available to investors when a company plans to issue shares or securities.

The two most relevant state aid frameworks are the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) and the Risk Finance Guidelines.

Invest Europe has responded to the European Commission's consultation on the EU's framework for Foreign Direct Investment screening calling for, among other things, a more harmonized framework.

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.