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09/08/2011 JC IFC List of identified financial conglomerates Joint Committee Reference PDF
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23/03/2012 JC 2011/82 Joint Committee of the ESAs- Work programme 2012 Joint Committee Reference PDF
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23/03/2012 JC 2011/17 Medium term strategy for the Joint Committee Joint Committee Reference PDF
152.87 KB
17/04/2012 JC/2011/17 Medium term strategy for the Joint Committee Joint Committee Reference PDF
152.75 KB
17/04/2012 JC/2011/82 Joint Committee of the ESAs- Work programme 2012 Overview of deliverables Joint Committee Reference PDF
89.31 KB
20/07/2012 JC/2012/12 List of identified financial conglomerates Joint Committee Reference PDF
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02/08/2012 JC/P/2012/01 ESAs supervisory protocol on anti-money laundering of payment institutions Joint Committee Reference PDF
606.88 KB
24/10/2012 JC/2012/88 EBA, EIOPA and ESMA’s Response to the European Commission’s Call for Advice on the Fundamental Review of the Financial Conglomerates Directive Joint Committee Reference 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
10/01/2013 2013/8 Call for expression of interest: Consultative Working Group for ESMA’s Corporate Reporting Standing Committee Corporate Disclosure Reference PDF
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Applications are welcome by 13.00 CET on 15 February 2013.
16/01/2013 JC/2013/02 Joint Committee of the ESAs’ 2013 Work Programme Joint Committee Reference PDF
78.96 KB		 In 2013, the Joint Committee will give high priority to the areas of consumer protection and risk analysis. The Joint Committee will also pursue the regulatory work initiated in 2012 in key areas such as Financial Conglomerates, AntiMoney Laundering and Credit Ratings, and will give more visibility to its work to externalstakeholders.
11/03/2013 2013/280 Vacancy notice- Chair of Committee drafting a proxy advising industry Code of Conduct Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance Reference PDF
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02/10/2013 JC/2013/051 Joint Committee of the ESAs’ 2014 Work Programme Joint Committee Reference PDF
90.99 KB		 The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA, EIOPA) publishes today its Work Programme for next year. Throughout 2014, the Joint Committee will give high priority to the areas of Consumer Protection and Cross-Sectoral Risk Analysis, as in the current year. The Joint Committee will also bring forward its regulatory work already underway in key areas such as Financial Conglomerates, Anti-Money Laundering, Benchmark setting processes and Credit Rating Agencies. Furthermore, the Joint Committee will keep on monitoring closely legislative and regulatory developments both at the European and international level, so as to ensure appropriate and timely follow-up, including in relation to Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs).
12/11/2013 2013/1643 Cover Note- Public statement containing information on shareholder cooperation and acting in concert under the Takeover Bids Directive (ESMA/2013/1642) Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Governance Reference PDF
145.01 KB		 In accordance with its mandate to take appropriate action in the context of takeover bids as per Article 1.3 of Regulation (EU) 1095/2010 (ESMA Regulation), ESMA is releasing a public statement on shareholder cooperation and acting in concert under the Takeover Bids Directive (Directive 2004/25/EC). This statement has been prepared following the review and report by the European Commission on the application of the Takeover Bids Directive and is based on information collected about the practices and application of that Directive. The statement has been prepared in order to help shareholders identify activities in relation to which they can cooperate (insofar as those activities are available to them under national company law), without that cooperation, in and of itself, leading to a conclusion that the shareholders are acting in concert and thus being at risk of having to make a mandatory bid under the Takeover Bids Directive. These activities are presented in the statement in the form of a “White List”. The statement has been prepared by the Takeover Bids Network, a permanent working group operating under the auspices of ESMA that promotes exchange of information on practices and application of the Takeover Bids Directive across the European Economic Area, thereby strengthening a common supervisory culture. The Takeover Bids Network is a specialist group composed of the national competent authorities appointed under the Takeover Bids Directive. The competent authorities represented on the ESMA Board of Supervisors are not in all cases appointed as competent authorities within the Takeover Bids Directive. The authorities not represented on the Board of Supervisors but competent within the area of takeovers are the Austrian Takeover Commission, the Irish Takeover Panel, the Oslo Stock Exchange of Norway, the Takeover Panel of Sweden and the Takeover Panel of the United Kingdom. These five authorities have contributed to the public statement and will have regard to it in the same manner as the other members of the Takeover Bids Network when assessing whether shareholders are acting in concert under their national takeover rules.
18/06/2014 2014 Joint ESA Consumer Protection Day- Programme Warnings and publications for investors, Joint Committee Reference PDF
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10/07/2014 MOU IFRS ESMA IFRS Foundation and ESMA statement of protocols for cooperation on International Financial Reporting Standards Corporate Disclosure Reference PDF
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25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 lt Vertybinių popierių (ESMA) ir bankų (EBI) sektorių skundų nagrinėjimo gairės Guidelines and Technical standards, Joint Committee Reference PDF
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) published today their Joint Committee final Report on guidelines for handling consumer complaints in the securities and banking sectors. The document aims to increase market confidence and for the benefit of consumers and firms alike it will ensure a harmonised approach to handling complaints for all 28 EU Member States and across all financial services sectors.The final report published today is part of the efforts of the European Supervisory Authorities to bring further supervisory convergence across the securities and banking sectors. It was developed on the basis of the existing complaints-handling guidelines established by EIOPA (the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) for the insurance sector. The report was launched for a public consultation last year and this final version takes into consideration the feedback received.ESMA and the EBA consider that these guidelines will ensure a consistent approach to complaints-handling across the EU. Consumers can purchase financial services and products in the investment, banking and insurance sectors across the entire EU Single Market and these guidelines will allow them to refer to a single set of complaints-handling arrangements. EU consumers will therefore be able to rely on the same approach irrespective of what type of product they have purchased and where they have purchased it.In addition to strengthening consumer protection -a key statutory objective for ESMA and for the EBA-, the guidelines will also allow firms, some of which sell products from more than one sector across the EU, to streamline and standardise their own complaints-handling arrangements. National regulators too will be able to supervise the same harmonised requirements across all sectors of financial services in their own jurisdictions.The guidelines will be translated into the official languages of the European Union (EU) and they will become applicable two months after the date of publication of their translations.
10/10/2014 JC/2014/74 2015 Work Programme of the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities Joint Committee Reference PDF
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23/10/2014 JC/2014/071 List of identified financial conglomerates Joint Committee Reference PDF
242.52 KB		 The Joint Committee publishes the 2014 List of Identified Financial Conglomerates. The latest version of the list shows 71 financial conglomerates with the head of group in an EU/EEA country, one with the head of group in Australia, two with the head of the group in Switzerland, and two with the head of group in the United States.
07/11/2014 2014/1344 ESMA Response to public consultation on the IAS Regulation Corporate Disclosure, IAS Regulation Reference PDF
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ESMA response to the European Commission consultation on the IAS Regulation

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