ESMA updates its Q&A document on prospectus related issues

06 April 2016

The updated Q&A includes two new questions and answers on the capitalisation and indebtedness table and the validity of the base prospectus.

The purpose of the Q&A document is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of the Prospectus Directive and its implementing measures.

The content of the Q&A document is aimed at competent authorities under the PD to ensure that in their supervisory activities their actions are converging along the lines of the responses adopted by ESMA. However, these responses are also meant to provide market participants with an indication of what constitutes proper implementation of the PD rules.

The answers are intended to help issuers of securities by providing clarity as to the content of the PD requirements without necessarily imposing an extra layer of requirements.

Full updated Q&A


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