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2006/2037(INI) Report on asset management

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ECON KLINZ Wolf (icon: ALDE ALDE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 052

Events

2006/07/31
   Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2006/05/11
   Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2006/04/27
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2006/04/27
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by on asset management drawn up by Wolf KLINZ (ALDE, DE) in response to the Commission's Green Paper on the enhancement of the EU framework for investment funds. Parliament stated that the primary objectives of asset management regulations were to protect investors, to diversify the financing of the economy, and to create a level playing field within the internal market. The European asset management industry was still fragmented in size in comparison with that of the US and, therefore, action at European level was needed to boost economic efficiency,

Parliament felt that the interaction between the Directive 85/611/EEC on UCITS, MiFID and its Level 2 measures, and the Directive 2000/31/EC on electronic commerce, leave undesirable scope for interpretation and required clarification and consolidation. It drew attention to differences between the regulation of UCITS and other investment products and called on the Commission, CESR and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) to ensure a high standard of transparency, management of conflicts of interests, notification requirements, and thus of equal treatment between UCITS and competing products.

T he changes introduced by Directives 2001/107/EC and 2001/108/EC (UCITS III) had not yet been exhausted. The transposition and interpretation of these Directives should be closely monitored. Parliament felt that there was a need to modify in some areas the Directive 85/611/EEC as amended by UCITS III. These modifications concern the following: a simplified prospectus, a modification of the notification procedure, the abolition of tax barriers for cross-border mergers and pooling and, if appropriate, the adaptation of eligible assets to market developments.

Parliament proposed that the simplified prospectus - in the spirit of the European Federation of Investment Funds and Companies (FEFSI) proposal of October 2003 - should take the form of a fact sheet to give investors transparency and provide them with a harmonised pan-European document setting out brief, standardised, understandable, and comparable information, on two to three pages. This document should be offered to the investor before conclusion of the contract. Parliament asked the Commission to propose amendments to Directive 85/611/EEC on the content of the simplified prospectus for the purpose of establishing binding EC legislation on a fully harmonised simplified prospectus.

The report went on to make recommendations on a range of issues: investor information and protection, risk management, European product passports, management company and depository passports, fund processing standardisation, cross-border consolidation, distribution structures, investment policy, non-UCITS investments, supervision issues and the Lamfalussy process.

Documents
2006/04/27
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2006/04/26
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2006/03/27
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2006/03/27
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2006/03/21
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
Details

The committee adopted the own-initiative report on asset management drawn up by Wolf KLINZ (ALDE, DE) in response to the Commission's Green Paper on the enhancement of the EU framework for investment funds.

The report said that the interaction between the UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities) directive, the MiFID (markets in financial instruments) directive and its level 2 measures and the E-commerce directive left "undesirable scope for interpretation" and that the legislative framework required clarification and consolidation. MEPs called on the Commission and the other EU bodies involved (CESR and CEIOPS) to ensure "a high level of transparency and management of conflicts of interests, notification requirements and thus equal treatment between UCITS and competing products".

The report went on to make recommendations on a range of issues: investor information and protection, risk management, European product passports, management company and depository passports, fund processing standardisation, cross-border consolidation, distribution structures, investment policy, non-UCITS investments, supervision issues and the Lamfalussy process.

2006/02/24
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2006/02/16
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2006/01/10
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2005/07/04
   EP - Responsible Committee

Documents

Activities

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • date: 2006-02-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE370.123 title: PE370.123 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
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  • date: 2006-03-21T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The committee adopted the own-initiative report on asset management drawn up by Wolf KLINZ (ALDE, DE) in response to the Commission's Green Paper on the enhancement of the EU framework for investment funds. The report said that the interaction between the UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities) directive, the MiFID (markets in financial instruments) directive and its level 2 measures and the E-commerce directive left "undesirable scope for interpretation" and that the legislative framework required clarification and consolidation. MEPs called on the Commission and the other EU bodies involved (CESR and CEIOPS) to ensure "a high level of transparency and management of conflicts of interests, notification requirements and thus equal treatment between UCITS and competing products". The report went on to make recommendations on a range of issues: investor information and protection, risk management, European product passports, management company and depository passports, fund processing standardisation, cross-border consolidation, distribution structures, investment policy, non-UCITS investments, supervision issues and the Lamfalussy process.
  • date: 2006-03-27T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-106&language=EN title: A6-0106/2006
  • date: 2006-04-26T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20060426&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
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  • date: 2006-04-27T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2006-181 title: T6-0181/2006 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by on asset management drawn up by Wolf KLINZ (ALDE, DE) in response to the Commission's Green Paper on the enhancement of the EU framework for investment funds. Parliament stated that the primary objectives of asset management regulations were to protect investors, to diversify the financing of the economy, and to create a level playing field within the internal market. The European asset management industry was still fragmented in size in comparison with that of the US and, therefore, action at European level was needed to boost economic efficiency, Parliament felt that the interaction between the Directive 85/611/EEC on UCITS, MiFID and its Level 2 measures, and the Directive 2000/31/EC on electronic commerce, leave undesirable scope for interpretation and required clarification and consolidation. It drew attention to differences between the regulation of UCITS and other investment products and called on the Commission, CESR and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) to ensure a high standard of transparency, management of conflicts of interests, notification requirements, and thus of equal treatment between UCITS and competing products. T he changes introduced by Directives 2001/107/EC and 2001/108/EC (UCITS III) had not yet been exhausted. The transposition and interpretation of these Directives should be closely monitored. Parliament felt that there was a need to modify in some areas the Directive 85/611/EEC as amended by UCITS III. These modifications concern the following: a simplified prospectus, a modification of the notification procedure, the abolition of tax barriers for cross-border mergers and pooling and, if appropriate, the adaptation of eligible assets to market developments. Parliament proposed that the simplified prospectus - in the spirit of the European Federation of Investment Funds and Companies (FEFSI) proposal of October 2003 - should take the form of a fact sheet to give investors transparency and provide them with a harmonised pan-European document setting out brief, standardised, understandable, and comparable information, on two to three pages. This document should be offered to the investor before conclusion of the contract. Parliament asked the Commission to propose amendments to Directive 85/611/EEC on the content of the simplified prospectus for the purpose of establishing binding EC legislation on a fully harmonised simplified prospectus. The report went on to make recommendations on a range of issues: investor information and protection, risk management, European product passports, management company and depository passports, fund processing standardisation, cross-border consolidation, distribution structures, investment policy, non-UCITS investments, supervision issues and the Lamfalussy process.
  • date: 2006-04-27T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
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