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Activities of Johan VAN OVERTVELDT related to 2022/0405(COD)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/65/EU to make public capital markets in the Union more attractive for companies and to facilitate access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and repealing Directive 2001/34/EC
2023/10/26
Committee: ECON
Dossiers: 2022/0405(COD)
Documents: PDF(230 KB) DOC(66 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Alfred SANT', 'mepid': 124781}]

Amendments (9)

Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) In addition, to further support the coverage of small and medium capitalisation companies by investment research, research material paid fully or partially by issuers should be labelled as ‘issuer-sponsored research’. To ensure an adequate level of objectivity and independence of such research material, such material should be produced in line with a code of conduct developed or endorsed by a market operator registered in a Member State or by a competent authoritypublished by ESMA. In order to support more visibility of the issuer-sponsored research, issuers should have the possibility to submit their issuer-sponsored research to the relevant collection body as defined32 in [Article 2 (2)Regulation (EU) .../... of the pEuroposal for a Regulation33 onean Parliament and the Council33a. __________________ 33a Regulation (EU) .../... of the European Parliament and the Council establishing a European Ssingle Aaccess Ppoint]. __________________ 32 See Article2.2 o proposal for a Regulation [2021.78.COD] 33 Proposal for a Regulation [ providing centralised access to publicly available information of relevance to financial services, capital markets and sustainability (2021/03.78.(COD] )).
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 3 b – subparagraph 2
The code of conduct shall set out minimum standards of independency and objectivity to be complied with by the providers of such research. The market operator or the competent authority sthall publisht has endorsed the code of conduct shall publish it on its website and review and re-endorse it every 2 years.
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 3 c
3c. Member States shall ensure that any issuer may submit its issuer- sponsored research, as referred to in paragraph 3b of this Article, to the relevant collection body as defined in [Article 2(2) of the proposal for a Regulation on a European Single Access Point40 ]. __________________ 40 Proposal for a Regulation [2021/0378.COD].deleted
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 9 a – point c
(b) in paragraph 9a, point (c) is replaced by the following: (c) the research for which the combined charges or the joint payment is made concerns issuers whose market capitalisation for the period of 36 months preceding the provision of the research did not exceed EUR 10 billion, as expressed by end-year quotes for the years when those issuers are or were listed or by the own-capital for the financial years when those issuers are or were not listed.;deleted
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b – introductory part
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 9 a
(b) in pParagraph 9a, point (c) is replaced by the is amended as followings:
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 9 a – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that t(a) the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: 'The provision of research by third parties to investment firms providing portfolio management or other investment or ancillary services to clients is to be regarded as fulfilling the obligations under paragraph 1 if: (a) before the execution or research services have been provided, an agreement has been entered into between the investment firm and the investment firm informs its clients about the reseparch provider, identifying the part of any combined charges or joint payments for execution services and research that is attributable to research; (b) the investment firm informs its clients about the joint paymentsate or joint payments, as the case may be, for execution services and research made to the third party providers of research; and (c) the research for which the combined charges or the joint payment is made concerns issuers whose market capitalisation for the period of 36 months preceding the provision of the research did not exceed EUR 1 billion, as expressed by end-year quotes for the years when they are or were listed or by the own-capital for the financial years when they are or were not listed.'
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 9 a – subparagraph 4 (new)
(b) the following subparagraph is added: 'Investment firms may keep a record of separate payments and gather information distinguishing the part of combined charges or joint payments for execution services and research that is attributable to research provided to such firms and may inform its clients annually in an aggregated form of the annual expenditure to research of the investment firm that is attributable to the client.'
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 27 – paragraph 7 a
(2 a) In Article 27, the following paragraph is inserted: : '7a. Member States shall require that a financial instrument of an issuer which is admitted to trading on an SME growth market may also be traded on another trading venue only if the issuer has been informed and has not objected .'
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point c
Directive 2014/65/EU
Article 33 – paragraph 4
4. The criteria laid down in paragraphs 3 and 3a are without prejudice to compliance by the investment firm or market operator operating the MTF, or a segment thereof, with other obligations under this Directive relevant to the operation of MTFs. They also do not prevent the investment firm or market operator operating the MTF from imposing additional requirements to those specified in that paragraph.
2023/07/11
Committee: ECON