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13/10/2011 2011/342 Opinion- Practical arrangements for the late transposition of the UCITS IV Directive Fund Management Opinion PDF
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16/11/2012 2012/752 Call for expressions of interest: Consultative Working Group for ESMA’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee Innovation and Products Reference PDF
141.98 KB		 To apply, please use the below Application form
20/11/2012 2012/721 Opinion on Article 50(2)(a) of the UCITS Directive Fund Management Opinion PDF
81.31 KB
11/01/2013 EBA/REC/2013/01 EBA Recommendations on supervisory oversight of activities related to banks’ participation in the Euribor panel Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Reference PDF
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04/02/2013 2013/14 Call for expressions of interest: Consultative Working Group for ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee Fund Management Reference PDF
129.5 KB		 To apply, please use the below Application form
02/04/2013 2013/413 Final Report- Draft regulatory technical standards on types of AIFMs Fund Management Technical Standards PDF
116.08 KB		 The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) to determine types of alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs), where relevant in the application of the AIFMD.  The draft RTS distinguish AIFMs managing alternative investment funds (AIF) of the open-ended type and AIFMs managing AIFs of the closed-ended type, in order to apply the rules on liquidity management, the valuation procedures and the transitional provisions of the AIFMD.  ESMA was required to develop these RTS by Article 4(4) of the AIFMD and they are aimed at ensuring uniform conditions of application of the AIFMD across the European Union.
01/08/2013 2013/1072 Practical arrangements for the late transposition of the AIFMD Fund Management Opinion PDF
93.1 KB		 The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an Opinion on arrangements for the late imposition of the AIFMD. The scope of the opinion is confined to the provision of collective portfolio management services. Arrangements before implementation of the Directive in all Member States Notification of marketing of EU AIFs when the host MS of the AIFM has not transposed the Directive (Articles 31 and 32 of the Directive) ESMA believes that, if the Directive has been transposed in the home MS of the AIFM, the competent authority of the host MS of the AIFM (Article 32) or home MS of the AIFM (Article 31) may not refuse a valid notification under the Directive on the ground that the Directive has not yet been transposed in the host MS. This applies irrespective of whether the marketing is done using the freedom to provide services or by means of a branch. Management passport (Article 33 of the Directive) ESMA believes that AIFMs established in a MS that has transposed the Directive should be able to manage an EU AIF via the management passport, both using the freedom to provide services or by means of a branch, in a MS where the Directive has not been transposed, irrespective of the provisions currently in place in such jurisdiction since the relevant provisions of the Directive are of a self-executing nature, and provided the AIFM is authorised to manage that type of AIF in accordance with Article 33(1) of the AIFMD. Any local restrictions on AIFMs that are not in accordance with the AIFMD will need to be disapplied.
13/08/2013 2013/611 SV Key concepts of the AIFMD Fund Management Reference PDF
84.4 KB		 Riktlinjer Riktlinjer om nyckelbegrepp i direktivet om förvaltare av alternativa investeringsfonder
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.
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.
15/11/2013 2013/1586 AIFMD Reporting- Annex 2-Tables 1-7 Fund Management Reference XLSX
30.46 KB		 Questions regarding technical support should be sent to info.it.aifmd[at]esma.europa.eu.
29/11/2013 2013/998 DA Retningslinjer for modellen til aftalememorandum om høring, samarbejde og informationsudveksling vedrørende tilsyn med AIFMD-enheder Fund Management, Guidelines and Technical standards Reference PDF
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29/11/2013 2013/998 SL Smernice o vzorcu memoranduma glede posvetovanja, sodelovanja in izmenjave informacij v zvezi z nadzorom subjektov iz direktive UAIS Fund Management, Guidelines and Technical standards Reference PDF
246.77 KB
20/02/2014 2014/160 Draft implementing technical standards on notification- EuVECA Fund Management Technical Standards PDF
175.99 KB
20/02/2014 2014/161 Draft implementing technical standards on notification- EuSEF Fund Management Technical Standards PDF
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28/02/2014 2014/205 Call for expressions of interest: Group of Economic Advisers for ESMA’s Committee for Economic and Markets Analysis Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Reference PDF
158.95 KB		 The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is seeking to appoint new members to its Group of Economic Advisors (GEA) for the Committee for Economic and Markets Analysis (CEMA). This follows the expiry of the term of the current GEA. CEMA has established the GEA in order to benefit from the expertise of stakeholders specialised in the topics of financial stability and general economic research related to financial markets. CEMA looks to this group to provide it with advice regarding our work related to financial stability and economic background analysis for the regulatory and supervisory tasks of ESMA. The closing date for application is 25 April 2014.  Application form
15/03/2014 2014/bonds Categories of covered bonds and issuers of covered bonds Fund Management Reference PDF
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25/03/2014 2013/1361 AIFMD- Reporting- XML documents- V1.2 [updated] Fund Management Reference ZIP
32.73 KB		 The description of changes performed on the xsd documents and IT technical guidance are included in the IT technical guidance (2013/1358) in sheet “change history. Each new version of xsd will increment the version number (from 1.1 to 1.2 version for example). 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.
27/03/2014 2014/332 Structured Retail Products- Good practices for product governance arrangements MiFID - Investor Protection, Innovation and Products Opinion PDF
203.1 KB		 Legal basis 1.    Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 (ESMA Regulation)  sets out the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) scope of action, tasks and powers which include “enhancing customer protection”, and “foster[ing] investor protection”.  2.    In order to continue delivering on this investor protection statutory objective, ESMA is issuing this opinion on certain aspects linked to the manufacturing and distribution of structured retail products (SRP). This opinion takes into account relevant work done in this field both at European and interna-tional level.  3.    This opinion is without prejudice to the requirements for the provision of investment services and activities established in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)  and its implementing measures (notably, Directive 2006/73/EC), the regulatory developments arising from the MiFID review or existing product rules that may apply to SRPs.  4.    ESMA’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 29(1) (a) of the ESMA Regulation. In accordance with Article 44(1) of the ESMA Regulation, the Board of Supervisors has adopted this opinion. Background 5.    In its July 2013 report on ‘Retailisation in the EU’ , ESMA highlighted that, from a consumer protec-tion perspective, retail investors may face difficulties in understanding the drivers of risks and returns of structured products. If retail investors do not properly understand the risk and reward profile of structured products, and if the products are not properly assessed against the risk appetite of retail investors, retail investors might be exposed to unexpected losses and this might lead to complaints, reputational risks for manufacturers and distributors, and a loss of confidence in the regulatory framework and, more broadly, in financial markets. 6.    In 2013, ESMA mapped the measures adopted in the EU Member States in relation to complex products in order to identify issues and to better understand the rationale behind national initiatives (by looking at similarities and differences in the various approaches, and reviewing how complexity has been treated in the different EU Members States). 7.    As a result, ESMA has developed a broad set of non-exhaustive examples of good practices, attached as Annex 1 hereto, illustrating arrangements that firms - taking into account the nature, scale and complexity of their business - could put in place to improve their ability to deliver on investor protection regarding, in particular, (i) the complexity of the SRPs they manufacture or distribute, (ii) the nature and range of the investment services and activities undertaken in the course of that business, and (iii) the type of investors they target. These good practices should also be a helpful tool for competent authorities in carrying out their supervisory action. Opinion 8.    ESMA considers that sound product governance arrangements are fundamental for investor protec-tion purposes, and can reduce the need for product intervention actions by competent authorities. 9.    ESMA considers that, when supervising firms manufacturing or distributing an SRP, competent authorities should promote, in their supervisory approaches, the examples of good practices for firms set out in Annex 1 hereto. 10.    Although the good practices set out in Annex 1 hereto focus on structured products sold to retail investors, ESMA considers that they may also be a relevant reference for other types of financial in-struments (such as asset-backed securities, or contingent convertible bonds), as well as when financial instruments are being sold to professional clients. 11.    The exposure to risk is an intrinsic feature of investment products. The good practices set out in Annex 1 refer to product governance arrangements and do not (and cannot) aim at removing investment risk from products.

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