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Templates for voluntary post-issuance disclosures for issuers of green bonds or sustainability-linked bonds

Banking and financial services

This opt-in regime is intended to encourage issuers of green or sustainability-linked bonds to use standard templates for their post-issuance disclosures. The templates will be based on those required for issuers seeking to use the European Green Bond Standard designation. The objective is to drive standardisation and ambition in the green bond market

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ID: 14196

Lobbying Activity

6 responses

Italian banks urge flexibility in voluntary green bond reporting

Associazione Bancaria Italiana, 27 Jan 2025

The association recommends updating bond terminology and including a wider range of activities. They also propose using broad summaries for large portfolios rather than specific project data.
This would allow banks to use standardized reporting while maintaining market preferences.
Transparency could decrease for investors seeking specific details on individual green projects.

German fund industry backs standardized green bond reporting templates

BVI Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management e.V., 28 Jan 2025

BVI supports standardised templates to help investors identify and compare taxonomy-aligned activities. They welcome the inclusion of a statement on whether bonds exclude activities under climate benchmarks. The association also expects consistency between pre-issuance and post-issuance disclosure requirements.
Standardisation helps investment funds compare bond data more efficiently and accurately.

ICE recommends expanding green bond templates to include social metrics

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., 28 Jan 2025

ICE recommends expanding templates to include social bonds and non-environmental impact metrics. They advocate for machine-readable formats and alignment with industry standards. They also request including identification codes to help investors find bonds.
Machine-readable data and identification codes would streamline integration of bond information into ICE's data products.
Issuers may face higher compliance burdens if voluntary templates require mandatory sector-specific metrics.

Austrian Savings Banks urge clarity on green bond templates

Österreichischer Sparkassenverband, 28 Jan 2025

The association requests a concrete specification of the term correction for updates. They suggest templates support portfolio approach reporting instead of ISIN level reporting.
This would allow banks to maintain their existing portfolio-based internal reporting frameworks.
Investors lose access to granular data associated with specific individual green bonds.

Consultation response

European Contact Group, 28 Jan 2025

The European Contact Group (ECG) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commission draft delegated regulations relating to external reviewers of European Green Bonds (EU GB). In responding, we aim to contribute to workable and balanced rules for this new supervisory regime and…

Consultation response

Environmental Liability Solutions Europe Ltd., 9 Jan 2025

ELS Europe Ltd. welcomes the opportunity to participate in the consultation on the draft supplementing Regulation to (EU) 2023/2631 on fees to be charged by ESMA. We lay out the case for a revised supervisory fee structure for micro-enterprises that intend to provide EU Green Bond (EUGB) external…