4/15/2025 10:00:17 AM The Austrian Financial Market Authority’s new Guide on Managing Sustainability Risks By Stephan Pachinger Victoria Bazil On 31 March 2025, the Austrian Financial Market Authority published its fundamentally revised Guide on “Managing Sustainability...
4/3/2025 2:20:37 PM EU officially delays CSRD and CSDDD By Léa Bareil Douglas Bryden Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Charlotte Aspin Lucinda Huntsman Valentin Weigel +6 more... Show less Today (3 April 2025), the European Parliament adopted the Omnibus Stop-the-Clock proposal (STC) for the CSRD and CSDDD. As discussed in...
3/21/2025 9:20:00 AM Have Your Say: Shaping the Future of “Green State Aid” By Andreas von Bonin Aurélie Morreale Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Florian Reiter-Werzin +1 more... Show less On 11 March, the European Commission launched a public consultation on its draft State aid Framework accompanying the Clean Industrial...
3/14/2025 4:02:52 PM Foundations for the future of decarbonisation and competitiveness in Europe? A look at the Clean Industrial Deal By Léa Bareil Karl Thies Introduction On 26 February, the European Commission (EC) published its Clean Industrial Deal (CID), which is expected to be this term’s...
2/27/2025 4:02:45 PM All change please! Omnibus re-routes CSRD, CSDDD, Taxonomy and CBAM By Léa Bareil Douglas Bryden Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Marlen Vesper-Gräske Hendrik Wessling Charlotte Aspin Valentin Weigel +5 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) has published its highly anticipated sustainability-related Omnibus simplification package (Omnibus...
2/24/2025 9:11:43 AM Managing ESG risks in an evolving regulatory landscape: What the new EBA Guidelines mean for banks in light of the EU’s Omnibus proposal By Elisabeth Schemmer Daniel Klingenbrunn Falko Glasow While the European Union (EU) awaits the European Commission’s detailed proposals on the EU Omnibus proposal with revisions to the...
2/12/2025 8:42:48 PM German Election #5: The future of Germany’s energy policy By Alex Schmidtke On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the...
1/27/2025 7:48:38 PM Life sciences – what to watch in 2025 By Adam Golden Kristen Riemenschneider Madeleine Tavcar We asked more than 200 Freshfields lawyers – across geographies and practice areas: what are the 1-2 issues top of mind for you and your...
1/14/2025 11:09:52 AM The year ahead in financial services: 10 trends to watch in 2025 By Sharon Grennan Christopher Bernard 2024 was a momentous year for the financial services industry. Financial institutions had to deal with geopolitical risks arising from...
9/2/2024 2:56:13 PM Towards balanced representation of men and women in decision-making bodies By Raquel Flórez Sara Moukayed The Parity Act, Organic Law 2/2024, of 1 August, on equal representation and balanced presence of women and men (the Act), came into...
7/3/2024 10:08:02 AM EU leadership shake-up: implications for business and policy By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Léa Bareil Jimena Gonzalez In the wake of the recent European elections, the EU27 Heads of State and Government have finalised allocating the influential EU top...
6/18/2024 12:57:15 PM What’s new in greenwashing? The Green Claims Directive on its way to adoption By Tobias Timmann Yulianna Tkach Following the adoption of the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (the “Empowering Consumers Directive”) which came...