The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority initiated an inspection of three pension funds’ disclosing pursuant to SFDR article 8 in November 2023.
ComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityOn 30 August 2023, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (“DFSA”) published a memo describing the requirements in SFDR art. 11 for periodic reporting.
ComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe updated guide takes regulation and guidance from public consultations and Q&A’s since July 2022 into account. Further, it reflects the most recent market practice on the application of the regulations.
ComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityOn 3 February 2023, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (“DFSA”) published a thematic review of sustainability disclosures for eight funds with sustainable investments as their objective.
ComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityIn general, the Guidelines, last updated in 2011, are a set of non-binding recommendations to businesses for ensuring responsible business conduct in all areas where business interacts with society.
ComplianceGovernanceSustainabilityOn 20 February 2023, ESMA closed their consultation on Guidelines on funds' names using ESG or sustainability-related terms launched back in November 2022.
ComplianceESMASustainabilityThe European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) submitted a draft set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS Set 1) to the EU Commission in November 2022.
ComplianceCSRDESMAESRSSustainabilityOn 1 January 2023 new rules have imposed stricter requirements for targets and policies on the gender composition of managements. These rules cover both large Danish companies (covered by accounting class C), including state-owned and some listed companies (covered by accounting class D), as well as certain companies within the financial area
ComplianceDanish RegulationSustainabilityThe European Commission expert group; Platform on Sustainable Finance, has published a final report on the minimum safeguards laid out in Article 3 and 18 of the Taxonomy Regulation. It replaces the draft report published in July 2022.
ComplianceCSDDDCSRDSustainabilityThe CSRD has now been finally adopted after the Council of the European Union on 28 November 2022 approved the European Parliament’s position. On 16 December 2022, the directive was published in the Official Journal. The date of entry into force is 20 days from the publication date.
ComplianceCSRDSustainabilityThe European Parliament has passed the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”). CSRD replaces the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (“NFRD”), and introduces higher requirements of more detailed reporting, and a mandatory EU sustainability reporting standard.
ComplianceCSRDSustainabilityInvest Europe has published a comprehensive members guide on EU ESG reporting requirements for fund managers to clarify grey areas that exist around the day-to-day application of the regulation.
ComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityAuthorized AIFMs shall from 1 August 2022 ensure that their systems, processes, and internal controls reflect relevant sustainability risks as defined in the SFDR.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe RTS will define the new standard for sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector in the EU and supplements provisions of the SFDR and of the Taxonomy Regulation.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityIn November 2021, Invest Europe released its Climate Ambition in which the association committed to contribute to the EU becoming climate-neutral by 2050 and pledged to help the P/E and VC industry move towards net zero.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe Danish FSA has assessed the quality of 4 pension companies and eight credit institutions' website disclosures with regards to information about their policies on the integration of sustainability risks in the investment decision-making process.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe European Commission has once again delayed the application of the level 2 obligations of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) until January 2023.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe Commission has postponed the date of application of the detailed regulatory technical standards (RTS) under the ESG Disclosure Regulation and the Taxonomy Regulation by six months from 1 January 2022 to 1 July 2022.
ComplianceCross-BorderDanish RegulationThe Commission has answered a number of questions from the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) regarding the ESG Disclosure Regulation.
ComplianceCross-BorderDanish RegulationFrom 10 March 2021, fund managers are required to make certain ESG disclosures available on their website and in their pre-contractual disclosures to investors.
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