On 1st July 2020, the CSSF released its Circular 20/743, thereby partially amending Circular letter 19/716. On the same day, the CSSF also enacted Regulation CSSF 20-02, thereby setting up a first list of "equivalent" jurisdictions under the national third country regime
On 6 July 2020, the Luxembourg government issued bill of law N°7625 implementing into domestic law Council Directive (EU) 2020/876 of 24 June 2020, which amends Directive 2011/16/EU (“DAC 6”) to address the urgent need
Yesterday, the draft law implementing the optional deadline extensions of EU Directive of 24 June 2020 (the “Directive”) amending the EU Directive on Administrative Cooperation to address the urgent need to defer certain time limits for the filing and exchange of information in the field of taxation because of the COVID-19 pandemic was presented to Parliament
On 6 July 2020, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published a report on the use of data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) within EU institutions.
On 2 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled in the case of BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd (C-231/19) that a “single supply” of management services,
In recent years the European Union has paid increasing attention to sustainability in its policy- making particularly in the financial sector
On 2 July 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) published two important texts for third country firms providing investment services or the carrying out of activities and ancillary services in Luxembourg:
On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg supervisory authority (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier - CSSF) issued the circular n°20/743 (the Circular) amending the existing CSSF circular 19/716 on the provision of investment services
On 1 July 2020, bill of law 7216B setting up a Luxembourg register of fiducies and trusts (the “RFT”), under the supervision of the Administration de l’Enregistrement, des Domaines et de la TVA (the “AED”), was passed in Parliament (the “RFT Law”).
On 7 May 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law extending certain deadlines during the crisis as provided for in various financial sector laws (the Law). The Law was published in the Luxembourg Official Gazette on 12 May 2020 and entered into force on the same day.
