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05/01/2021 ESMA40-134-2458 Conflict of interests and ethics policy- ESMA staff Careers, Corporate Information Reference PDF
6.72 MB
14/06/2011 2011/190 ESMA guidebook Corporate Information Reference PDF
781.37 KB		 This guidebook provides useful information for persons coming to ESMA for meetings or hearings.
09/08/2011 2011/239 2011 Calendar of the Chair and Executive Director of ESMA- updated 20 December 2011 Corporate Information Reference PDF
219.25 KB
04/01/2012 2011/330 final ESMA 2012 Work Programme Corporate Information Reference PDF
751.64 KB		 This document sets out ESMA’s work programme for 2012, highlighting the key priorities and explaining how they will be delivered. This document has been approved by ESMA’s Management Board and Board of Supervisors. Annex 3 presents a more detailed view on the key work streams ESMA will run in 2012.
03/01/2011 2011/9 Frequently asked questions- a guide to understanding ESMA Corporate Information Reference PDF
307.77 KB
17/04/2012 2012/108 ESMA budget for 2012 Corporate Information Reference PDF
180.43 KB
21/02/2012 2012/113 Questions and Answers- A Common Definition of European Money Market Funds- updated February 2012 Fund Management Q&A PDF
83.79 KB		 The purpose of this document is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of the guidelines on a Common Definition of European Money Market Funds developed by CESR by providing responses to questions posed by the general public and competent authorities. The content of this document is aimed at competent authorities to ensure that in their supervisory activities their actions are converging along the lines of the responses adopted by ESMA. However, the answers are also intended to help management companies by providing clarity as to the content of CESR’s guidelines on a Common Definition of European Money Market Funds, rather than creating an extra layer of requirements.
07/05/2012 2012/275 ESMA’s 2012 Regulatory Work Programme Corporate Information Reference PDF
198.04 KB		 ESMA’s annual regulatory programme aims to provide information on the planned technical standards, technical advice and guidelines & recommendations to be issued by ESMA in 2012. This information is provided in accordance with article 3 of the procedure for developing and adopting draft technical standards and guidelines and recommendations. The regulatory programme takes into account, amongst others, ESMA’s objectives and tasks, the procedure for adopting technical standards, providing technical advice and issuing guidelines as well as the scope and nature of specific powers conferred in European Union legislative acts to ESMA.    The regulatory work programme is based on the ESMA 2012 Work Programme approved by the Board of Supervisors in November 2011 and published on 4 January 2012 on the ESMA website, but provides a more detailed outline of the individual work streams.  
20/06/2012 2012/378 Operation of notifications of MiFID Article 41 suspensions and removals of financial instruments from trading MiFID - Secondary Markets Reference PDF
353.3 KB		 This protocol has been created to ensure effective co-operation between Competent Authorities (CAs) with respect to their obligations under Article 41 of MiFID (Suspension and removal of in-struments from trading).The purpose of the notification obligations under Article 41 is to afford investors across all Mem-ber States the same level of protection regardless of where they trade. In order to achieve this outcome, a shared understanding of the different circumstances under which trading may be suspended in different Member States according to their national law and the expected course of action under Article 41 is helpful. To ensure trading is suspended or an instrument is removed from trading in an effective and timely way, an effective communication process is necessary.The protocol will be kept under review in light of practical experience.
22/06/2012 2012/382 MiFID Q&A in the area of investor protection and intermediaries MiFID - Investor Protection Q&A PDF
319.78 KB
25/07/2012 2012/478 ESMA MiFID database- description of webservice MiFID - Secondary Markets Reference PDF
123.71 KB		 This document provides useful information for developers wanting to use the webservice provided in ESMA's MIFID databases.
01/08/2012 2012/490 Call for expressions of interest in ESMA's Consultative Working Group on Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee MiFID - Investor Protection Reference PDF
130.34 KB		 The deadline for responses to this call for interest has been extended two weeks, to 14 September 2012.
01/10/2012 2012/631 ESMA 2013 Work Programme Corporate Information Reference PDF
699.1 KB
01/10/2012 2012/632 ESMA 2013-2015 multi annual work programme Corporate Information Reference PDF
298.61 KB
19/10/2012 2012/682 Guide to investing MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors Reference PDF
569.39 KB
19/12/2012 2012/850 MiFID supervisory briefing- Suitability MiFID - Investor Protection Reference PDF
238 KB
20/08/2013 2013/1119 Opinion on draft regulatory technical standards on types of AIFMs under Article 4(4) of Directive 2011/61/EU Fund Management Reference PDF
247.02 KB		 The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) submitted its formal opinion to the European Commission on 13 August, in response to the letter received on 8 July, on draft regulatory technical standards under Article 4(4) of Directive 2011/61/EU. The opinion was issued in accordance with Article 10(1) sixth subparagraph of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
23/09/2014 2013/1358 AIFMD reporting IT technical guidance (rev 4) [updated] Fund Management Reference ZIP
155.52 KB		 The IT technical guidance (2013/1358) contains the following set of documents: IT technical guidance in which is included the description of changes performed on the technical guidance and/or XSD documents in sheet “change history. XML samples for AIFM and AIF reports Excel version of Annex III – “Table of geographical areas” Previous version of XSD documents (Version 1.1) The current IT technical guidance revision 4 contains modifications on the IT technical guidance to take into account the last published version of Questions and Answers (Q&A) on the application of the AIFMD (2014/868) as well as some clarifications and correction of inconsistencies with XSD documents. Questions regarding technical support should be sent to info.it.aifmd[at]esma.europa.eu. Each AIFM should contact directly the national competent authorities to know how the filling of the XML reports will be handled at national level.
15/11/2013 2013/1359 Consolidated AIFMD reporting template (revised) Fund Management Reference XLSX
4.15 MB		 Questions regarding technical support should be sent to info.it.aifmd[at]esma.europa.eu.
15/11/2013 2013/1360 Tables 8-9-10 of Annex 2 of ESMA guidelines on AIFMD reporting obligation (revised) Fund Management Reference XLSX
310.05 KB		 Questions regarding technical support should be sent to info.it.aifmd[at]esma.europa.eu.

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