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03/02/2015 2015/224 ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Market Abuse Regulation Market Abuse Technical Advice PDF
1021.03 KB		 This advice:•    specifies the MAR market manipulation indicators, by providing examples of practices that may constitute market manipulation as well as proposing “additional” indicators of market manipulation; •    recommends to set the minimum thresholds that exempt certain market participants in the emission allowance market from publicly disclosing inside information at six million tonnes of CO2eq per year and at 2,430 MW rated thermal input;•    suggests the way to determine to which regulator delays in disclosure of inside information needs to be notified.  •    provides clarifications on the enhanced disclosure of managers’ transactions. - ESMA recommends disclosing  any acquisition, disposal, subscription or exchange of financial instruments of the relevant issuer or related financial instruments carried out by managers,, further illustrated through a non-exhaustive list of types of transactions subject to this obligation.  . ESMA also clarifies the transactions that can be allowed by the issuer during a closed period when normally managers are prohibited to trade; and•    proposes procedures and arrangements to ensure sound whistleblowing infrastructures – i.e. EU national regulators should allow the receipt of reports of infringements, including appropriate communication channels and guarantee the protection of reporting and reported persons, with respect to their identity and their personal data. Next steps ESMA has sent its technical advice to the European Commission for its consideration in drafting its implementing standards regarding MAR. ESMA’s regulatory technical standards regarding MAR will be delivered in July 2015.
01/03/2012 2012/137 ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Technical Advice PDF
1.32 MB		 ESMA publishes today the second part of its final advice (ESMA/2012/137) on possible delegated acts for the Prospectus Directive (PD).  The advice was submitted to the Commission on 29 February 2012.  In its advice, ESMA proposes how to use a prospectus in a retail cascade and provides input on how to review the provisions of the Prospectus Regulation concerning tax information, indices, auditor’s report on profit forecasts and estimates and audited historical financial information. Today’s advice follows a public consultation started on 13 December 2011. Overall, the technical advice aims to achieve a high level of investor protection and to increase across Europe the legal clarity and efficiency of the prospectus regime. Investment prospectuses as such are aimed to provide investors with easily accessible information on financial products so as to foster in-formed decision-making.
09/01/2013 2012/864 ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Technical Advice PDF
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04/10/2011 2011/323 Final report- ESMA's technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Technical Advice PDF
797.56 KB
01/04/2016 2016/419 Q&A Market Abuse Directive Market Abuse Q&A PDF
175.08 KB
17/04/2020 ESMA32-51-370 Q&A on ESMA Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Information Q&A PDF
329.01 KB
08/07/2020 ESMA70-1861941480-56 Q&A on MiFIR data reporting MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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11/04/2019 ESMA31-62-780 Q&A on Prospectus Related Topics Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Information, Prospectus, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
957.9 KB
04/12/2019 ESMA34-32-352 Q&A on the Application of the AIFMD Fund Management, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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11/12/2019 ESMA70-145-114 Q&A on the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) Benchmarks, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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29/03/2019 ESMA70-145-111 Q&A on the Market Abuse Regulation Market Abuse, Market Integrity Q&A PDF
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The purpose of this document is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MAR and its implementing measures. It does this by providing responses to questions posed by the general public and competent authorities in relation to the practical application of the MAR framework

The content of this document is aimed at competent authorities to ensure that in their supervisory activities and their actions are converging along the lines of the responses adopted by ESMA and at helping issuers, investors and other market participants by providing clarity on the content of the market abuse rules, rather than creating an extra layer of requirements.
22/12/2020 ESMA35-43-349 Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection topics MiFID - Investor Protection, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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03/11/2020 ESMA71-99-1423 QA Fast Track Peer Review- Wirecard Corporate Disclosure, Guidelines and Technical standards, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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11/04/2019 ESMA31-67-127 Question and answers on Transparency Directive (TD) Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Supervisory convergence, Transparency Q&A PDF
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17/02/2020 ESMA70-708036281-2 Questions and Answers on CSDR Post Trading, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
575.59 KB
01/04/2020 ESMA70-156-2287 Technical Advice to the European Commission on weekly position reports under MiFID II MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence Technical Advice PDF
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