The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - What next?

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is a key part of the EU’s efforts to attract the private investment Europe needs to finance the transition to a green and sustainable economy. Designed to bring transparency, the SFDR was one of the first pillars of the EU’s sustainable finance framework to be put in place. The regulation is, however, not entirely working as intended. That is why the European Commission has launched a comprehensive assessment of the SFDR. The aim is to ensure legal certainty and that the SFDR plays its part in tackling greenwashing.

As part of this assessment, and to accompany a targeted consultation and a public consultation launched on 14 September, the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) organised ths high-level online workshop. The event was opened by Commissioner Mairead McGuinness. The objective of the workshop was to discuss current challenges of the SFDR and possible ways forward for sustainability disclosures in the EU. Questions included how to ensure better coherence between the SFDR and other parts of the EU’s sustainable finance framework, how to make disclosures more effective as well as the potential introduction of product categories.

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Sustainability-related disclosure in the financial services sector

Targeted consultation on the implementation of the SFDR

Public consultation on the implementation of the SFDR