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JD Supra European Union

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JD Supra
Publication date:
2019-04-29

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  • Regulatory monitoring: EU Version - May 2025

    The study on enhancing EU competitiveness in the banking sector, requested by the ECON, has been published by the Economic Governance and EMU Scrutiny Unit. The study emphasises the importance of a resilient and efficient banking sector for EU competitiveness. Building on its analysis, the study recommends that, to achieve this, the EU should first prioritise the defragmentation of the banking market, and then, simplify and streamline the prudential framework for banks without compromising resilience.

  • EU Geopolitical Risk Update - Key Policy & Regulatory Developments No. 121

    This regular alert covers key policy and regulatory developments related to EU geopolitical risks, including in particular, economic security, Russia’s war against Ukraine, health threats, and cyber threats. It does not purport to provide an exhaustive overview of developments.

  • ROPES & GRAY CSRD TRANSPOSITION TRACKER

    Reporting obligations under the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive are created under EU member state national legislation adopted pursuant to the CSRD. We have again updated our tracker to reflect the transposition status of the CSRD. New to this update, the tracker also discusses action relating to the Omnibus Proposal in many EU member states.

  • Solvency II: Assessing the implications of the EU’s Amending Directive for the insurance sector

    In January 2025, an amending directive (Directive (EU) 2025/2, “Amending Directive”) was passed that will result in some important changes to the Solvency II Directive (Directive (EU) 2009/13/EU) taking effect across EU member states on January 30, 2027. The Amending Directive contains far reaching changes on topics as varied as long-term equity investments, valuation of insurance liabilities, proportionality, and reporting, which reflects insurers’ valuable role in responding to the challenges of our times: green transition and Covid recovery. However, the Amending Directive also contains significant changes to rules on group supervision, and, in that regard and others, reflects supervisory lessons learned since the implementation of Solvency II in 2016.

  • Amendments in UPC proceedings: current developments and practical guidelines

    Recent decisions from various UPC divisions provide valuable guidance for parties seeking to amend their cases or patents. The decisions emphasize that it is crucial for parties to know how to distinguish between the rules for amending patents and patent actions, as each has its own requirements and scope. This will enable them to file proper applications and to make strategic decisions to defend their patent rights as effectively as possible. Legal framework - Amendments to the case: Under R. 263.1 of the Rules of Procedure (RoP), a party may, at any point during the proceedings, request the Court’s permission to alter its claim or amend its case, which may include the addition of a counterclaim. The rule is primarily concerned with ensuring that late or unclear amendments to a case do not unduly hinder the other party in its defense.

  • EU energy transition: Europe's critical materials value chain boosted by strategic projects announcement

    A recent announcement by the European Commission of 47 Strategic Projects is set to boost the bloc’s domestic supply of raw materials, strengthening its battery and defense value chains and presenting substantial potential investment opportunities. Focused on improving the extraction, processing, recycling, and substitution of raw materials, this first batch of projects under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) will receive "priority status" to expedite permitting and development. The global race for critical materials, especially "battery metals" like lithium and nickel, and rare earth elements, is reshaping geopolitics and intensifying international tensions. For the EU, securing a stable supply of these materials is crucial for its green and digital transitions and for supporting a strategically important European defense industry. The CRMA, enacted in April 2024, aims to ensure a secure, resilient, and sustainable supply of critical materials by fostering efficiency and circularity throughout their value chain. How successful the EU is in competing for investment to deliver these projects remains to be seen, with other nations similarly seeking to secure domestic supply.

  • EU Listing Act - Regulatory Divergence Between EU and UK MAR

    Until recently, the UK and EU post-Brexit market abuse regimes remained substantially aligned. However, the passing of the EU Listing Act reforms in 2024 has meant that UK and EU MAR have started to diverge meaningfully for the first time and we must now start to consider them as separate regimes. Although most of the changes to EU MAR took effect in late 2024, arguably the most impactful amendment (to when issuers need to announce inside information in certain circumstances) will not take effect until mid-2026.

  • Practical Takeaways from the Recently Published EU Foreign Subsidies Decision in Case FS.100011 - e&/PPF

    The European Commission has released the full, non-confidential text of its decision in Case FS.100011 – e&/PPF, marking a watershed moment under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). This is the first case to be cleared with commitments, setting a precedent for how foreign subsidies will be scrutinized moving forward, particularly in transactions involving state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, and non-EU governmental entities.

  • Regulatory monitoring - April 2025

    1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - Bundesbank: Updated directories of credit institutions and their associations in Germany on banking related information (Aktualisiertes Verzeichnis der Kreditinstitute und ihrer Verbände in der BRD über bankgeschäftliche Informationen) Status: Final - The German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank – BuBa) has published an updated directory of credit institutions and their associations in Germany on banking related information for 2025. The document lists all credit institutions that conducted banking transactions in accordance with Section 1 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG) in the specified year, as well as two institutions mentioned under Section 2 KWG (BuBa, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau – KfW). Date of publication: 01/01/2025 - (ii) International - FSB: Letter to G20 Finance Ministers - Status: Final-

  • EU Omnibus: The EU Taxonomy – Why?

    In 2018, the European Commission set forth a classification system to determine whether businesses are environmentally sustainable. The EU Taxonomy followed the legalistic style of the French Civil Code and flummoxed non-European sponsors tasked with providing detailed evaluations of European environmental law and international human rights principles for portfolio investments.

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