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On 24 May 2023, the European Commission put forward a package of two proposals to amend existing directives and a regulation with a view to fostering retail investor information transparency and ensuring that investment decisions are best for investors. The objective is to enhance trust and confidence, thereby increasing retail investor participation in financing the economy. The package is mostly concerned with clarity in communication and the prevention of misleading marketing. It also seeks to ...

European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs) invest on a long-term basis in infrastructure projects, real estate, and small and medium-sized enterprises, among other things. While the legislative framework – the ELTIF Regulation – for these funds was adopted six years ago, their market remains small. For this reason, the Commission has proposed amending the ELTIF Regulation to make it more appealing to investors. The key mulled changes involve differentiating between ELTIFs marketed to professional ...

While business tax incentives are used widely, concerns have been raised in recent years regarding their effectiveness, their impact on public finances and whether they could potentially distort the EU single market. With important innovation challenges ahead relating to the green and digital twin transition, tax incentives are increasingly being used to boost investment in the area of research and development.

Avec le Fonds pour une transition juste et le dispositif InvestEU pour une transition juste, la facilité de prêt au secteur public (FPSP) est le troisième pilier du mécanisme pour une transition juste. Le FPSP comprend une composante «subvention» et une composante «prêt». Grâce à une contribution de 1,525 milliard d’euros du budget de l’Union à la composante «subvention» et à un prêt de 10 milliards d’euros de la Banque européenne d’investissement sur ses ressources propres, l’objectif est de réunir ...

En juin 2018, la Commission européenne a présenté une proposition de règlement établissant le Fonds européen de la défense. Ce fonds vise à renforcer la compétitivité et la capacité d’innovation de la défense européenne ainsi qu’à contribuer à l’autonomie stratégique de l’UE. Le Parlement européen et le Conseil ont conclu un accord partiel début 2019, puis un accord politique provisoire sur les questions en suspens en décembre 2020. Le Conseil a adopté sa position en première lecture en mars 2021 ...

The InvestEU programme is a single investment support mechanism for the 2021-2027 period. It brings together various EU financial instruments for internal policies previously supported by different funds and programmes of the EU budget. On 26 March 2021, the InvestEU Regulation entered into force, with retroactive application from 1 January 2021. The EU guarantee, set at €26.2 billion, is expected to mobilise at least €372 billion of investment across the EU (in current prices). In addition, at Parliament's ...

InvestEU est un mécanisme unique d’aide à l’investissement mis en place pour la période 2021-2027, qui regroupe dans un souci de simplification des instruments financiers d’action intérieure de l’Union soutenus auparavant par différents fonds du budget européen. Le Parlement votera sur un accord en première lecture au sujet d’InvestEU lors de la période de session plénière de mars I 2021.

Since its launch in November 2014, the Investment Plan for Europe (IPE) has had considerable success in mobilising private investment across Europe. Despite its success, investment levels in Europe remain below pre-crisis levels. There is therefore a need to provide for an extended EU investment programme under the new multiannual financial framework (MFF), which caters for multiple objectives in terms of simplification, flexibility, synergies and coherence across relevant EU policies. The InvestEU ...

Europe's population is ageing, due to people living longer and having fewer children, putting pressure on pension systems and leading to reforms to make public pensions more sustainable – and often less generous – in future. To support retirement incomes, the European Commission's 2012 pensions white paper called for more opportunities for citizens to save in safe and good-value complementary pensions. The aim of the proposed framework for a pan-European personal pension product (PEPP) was to encourage ...

This European added value assessment, prepared for the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), analyses the added value of a pan-European pension product, in particular from the taxation viewpoint. It presents the issues that led to the PEPP proposal being made and provides a short overview of key stakeholders' opinions and existing studies. Moreover it considers the question of PEPP taxation and the impact of costs on final pensions. The analysis concludes by identifying ...