Regulatory notices
Yesterday, Consob published on its website the operating procedure translated in English to communicate ex-ante the PRIIPS KID.
Yesterday, the French capital market supervisory authority published clarifications about the forthcoming application of SFDR and the full implementation of the position-recommendation DOC-2020-03 on the information to be provided by collective investment schemes integrating non-financial approaches.
On 20 January 2021, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier published the 17th version of its Frequent Asked Question on the application of AIFMD.
On 14 January 2021, the European Supervisory Authorities published on their respective website a letter from their Joint Committee addressed to the European Commission about priority issues relating to SFDR application.
Yesterday, the Italian capital market regulator Consob published an updated version of its DEPROF User Manual as well as an updated version of the product xml file structure.
The Austrian financial market authority published on its website the regulatory fees 2021 applicable to the UCITS and AIFs marketed in Austria.
On 21 December 2020, the Minister of Finance deposited the Bill implementing the Directive (EU) 2019/1160 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 amending the Directives 2009/65/EC and 2011/61/EU as regards the cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings in Luxembourg.
On 24 December 2020, the CSSF published a communiqué related to the start of the annual online survey for the year 2020.
The 2020 survey remains generally unchanged compared to the previous year. However, few new questions have been added following the amendment to the 2004 AML/CFT Law in March 2020.
On 22 December 2020, the Finnish capital market authority Fin-FSA published the update of the Processing fees charged as of 1 January 2021.