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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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

In this letter to the European Commission, Invest Europe shares its views on the additional queries from the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) in relation to the SFDR and its interplay with the EU Taxonomy Regulation. A number of the ESAs’ questions raise foundational issues concerning the interpretation of the SFDR’s Level 1 text which has been effective since 10 March 2021.

In this consultation response, Invest Europe expresses its concerns about some of the approaches suggested by the Platform for Sustainable Finance in its Draft Report on Minimum Safeguards under the Taxonomy Regulation. Among others, we have stressed the importance of considering not only the need for proportionality, but also the significant impact that PE/VC investments have proven to create.