ESMA publishes responses received to its consultation on Guidelines on CSDR

01 July 2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority has published the responses received to the Consultation Paper on Guidelines on participant default rules and procedures under CSDR.

ESMA invites comments on all matters in this paper and in particular on the specific questions summarised in Annex 1. Comments are most helpful if they:

• respond to the question stated;
• indicate the specific question to which the comment relates;
• contain a clear rationale; and
• describe any alternatives ESMA should consider.
• ESMA will consider all comments received by 30 June 2016.

Guidelines on central securities depositories regulation (CSDR)

Section 2 contains information on the background and mandate, Section 3 contains an analysis of the scope and content of the proposed guidelines, while Section 4 contains the proposed guidelines.

Annex I sets out a summary of the questions contained in this paper and Annex II includes a high level cost-benefit analysis for the guidelines.

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