Brussels, 24 July 2020 | Europex welcomes the opportunity to take part in the present consultation. Below we provide our input to the Commission’s online questionnaire in an amended format to facilitate its publication on the Europex website. Europex considers the following points, among others, to be of key importance: Charging the fees directly to Market Participants would the most efficient approach with RRMs collecting the fee as intermediaries. There would be significant risk of distortion of competition between different types of RRMs should the fee be charged directly to RRMs; The fee calculation must not discourage trading on regulated
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Europex response to the ESMA consultation on the review of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)
Brussels, 29 November 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the initiation of the MAR review and would like to use this opportunity to underline the importance of the MAR policy objectives. A robust and coherent regulatory framework to combat market abuse is necessary to help safeguard the integrity of financial markets and provide clarity to market participants as well as market infrastructure providers. A number of principles underpin our response to this review, including the need to ensure coherence between MAR and other pieces of legislation such as the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) and the Regulation on
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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 ACER’s public consultation on the “Proposed Changes to Electronic Formats for Transaction Data, Fundamental Data and Inside Information Reporting”
Brussels, 8 November 2017 | Europex welcomes the opportunity to take part in ACER’s public consultation on the Proposed Changes to Electronic Formats for Transaction Data, Fundamental Data and Inside Information Reporting. As a matter of principle, Europex supports the effort of ACER to enhance data quality for monitoring purposes and to implement a simplification of the reporting format. Despite these improvements, however, we would like to highlight that any change(s) to the already established reporting format will: create implementation costs which will be passed on to market participants and end consumers; increase system operation risks; potentially affect the reliability
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