Answer from the European Commission:

No, Member States are not allowed to introduce limitations on the life and/or the life-cycles of ELTIFs. Article 1(3) of the ELTIF Regulation (EU) 2015/760, as revised, prohibits Member States to add any further requirements in the field covered by the ELTIF Regulation. Both the life of ELTIFs and the life-cycles of ELTIFs are already regulated, among others, by Article 18(1), (2) and (3) of the ELTIF Regulation and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2759, which sets out further circumstances in which the life of an ELTIF is considered compatible with the life-cycles of each of the individual assets of the ELTIF. The ELTIF Regulation enables ELTIFs to have a life and/or a life-cycle determined by the ELTIF managers on a case-by-case basis. In practice, ELTIF managers can set up ELTIFs with the life and the life-cycle they deem appropriate, subject to the requirements of the ELTIF Regulation. Setting up a perpetual ELTIF is also a possibility. Against this background, the ELTIF legal framework sets out extensive investor safeguards and obligations pertaining to the life and the life-cycles of ELTIFs.

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