ESMA Chair's Statements To The ECON Committee At The European Parliament

At the annual hearing of the ESAs today, Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, delivered the following statement to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) of the European Parliament. The statement focuses on ESMA's achievements over the last 12 months in the pursuit of its objectives of enhancing investor protection and promoting stable and orderly financial markets in the EU, including its activities in relation to the single rulebook, supervisory convergence, enforcement and financial stability and also looks to the future under ESMA’s 2016-2020 strategy.

As the current Chair of the Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities, Steven Maijoor gave a further two statements to the ECON: one on the overall work of the Joint Committee between September 2014 and September 2015 and one on the ongoing Joint Committee work under the Regulation on Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs).

2015/1349 Statement ECON Hearing

2015/1348 Annex Statement ECON Hearing

2015/1380 Statement ESAs Joint Committee - ECON Hearing

2015/1381 Annex ESAs Joint Committee - ECON Hearing

JC 2015 056 Statement ECON Scrutiny session on PRIIPs