News News Flash - Sustainable Investment - Regulation (EU) 2020/852 10/07/2020

On June 22, 2020, Regulation (EU) 2020/852 was published, concerning the establishment of a framework for the promotion of sustainable investment and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, reinforcing the investment orientation ever growing sustainability and harmonization of standards in this area, thus avoiding negative distortions of competition and bias in investment decisions.

Regulation (EU) 2020/852 establishes the criteria for determining whether an economic activity qualifies as environmentally sustainable, with a view to establishing the extent to which an investment is, in turn, environmentally sustainable. To this extent, it also introduces amendments to Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on the dissemination of information related to sustainability in the financial services sector.

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