Brussels, 19 March 2018 |Europex strongly supports the EMIR Refit process and welcomes the ECON draft report as well as the intended simplification of reporting obligations and improvement of data quality. We especially value the aim to achieve a reduction of costs for market participants and to extend the possibilities of choice for clearing members. However, we are highly concerned about Amendment 4 as tabled on 26 January 2018 in the Langen draft report. We fear that the amendment, which states that: ‘The CCP should report to the TR specified by the counterparty. Clearing members and their clients should be
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The need to simplify and streamline reporting obligations under EMIR, MiFID II/MiFIR and REMIT – Europex response to Commission fitness check on supervisory reporting
Brussels, 14 March 2018 | Europex welcomes the opportunity to take part in the “fitness check on supervisory reporting” of the European Commission and to discuss the effectiveness and efficiency of existing EU-level supervisory reporting requirements. We deeply believe in the simplification and streamlining of regulatory reporting. Electricity and gas derivative contracts are covered by reporting obligations stemming from four pieces of legislation: namely EMIR, MiFID II/MiFIR, REMIT and MAR. This constitutes a heavy reporting burden for energy exchanges and clearing houses as well as for market participants. Consequently, there is a need to streamline the requirements in order to
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Europex response to the consultation on the ‘First Edition Bidding Zone Review’
Brussels, 9 March 2018 | Europex’ response is divided into two parts. Comments on the content of the draft report for public consultation are provided first, followed by comments concerning the process of the First Edition Bidding Zone review. 1. Feedback on the First Edition Bidding Zone Review: Draft report for public consultation Selection of expert-based bidding zone configuration: Configuration selection is a vital part of the review, which defines the framework of the study. The selection of the four alternative expert-based configurations developed by the TSOs is described in section 4.1, taking each scenario in turn. It is explained
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