Regulatory notices

As regards to pre-contractual disclosures for Art. 8 and 9 products, the CSSF expects receiving updated documents (precontractual and periodic disclosure information in the format of templates set out in the annexes of the SFDR RTS) by 31 October 2022 to guarantee the delivery of the Visa before 31 December 2022.

In complement of the recent publication of the Level 2 SFDR in the Official Journal of the European Union, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority published the SFDR templates contained in the Annexes of the delegated regulation in MS Word format.

Less than 6 months before their entry into force, the long-awaited Delegated Regulation on Sustainable Finance Disclosures (Level 2 Regulation) was finally published yesterday in the Official Journal of the European Union.

On 22 July 2022, the CSSF published a communiqué on the application of Circular 21/790 on Practical rules concerning the self-assessment questionnaire to be submitted annually by Luxembourg undertakings for collective investment.

The Luxembourg financial watchdog introduces a new data collection on invest funds’ portfolio and their liquidity

This data collection exercise concerns a selected sample of funds and investment fund managers (IFM) for which the CSSF is asking to report the portfolio breakdown line by line with asset liquidity information, as per 30 June 2022.

On 19 July 2022, the Law implementing the transition from the UCITS KIID to PRIIPs KID has been published in the Belgian Official Journal.

Thursday 21 July 2022, the Central Bank of Luxembourg published a revised version of its “List of countries for the purpose of statistical reporting” document.

ESMA updated its UCITS and AIFMD Q&As on 20 July 2022.

The new questions relate to trade reconciliations frequencies by UCITS or AIFM depositaries and the responsibilities of the investment fund manager in case of delegation of fund marketing activities.

As announced in June, the CSSF has published the UCITS identifiers to be used for the UCITS Risk Reporting as at 30 June 2022.