Non-EU banks and the exclusion of financial entities from CSDDD
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
The Article 36(1) of the Directive (EU) 2024/1760, also known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), specifies that the European Commission should prepare a report on "the necessity of laying down additional sustainability due diligence requirements tailored to regulated financial undertakings with respect to the provision of financial services and investment activities, and the options for such due diligence requirements as well as their impacts, in line with the objectives of this Directive."
The European Commission has started this report and has asked for and received evidences supporting or opposing these "additional rules".
Please note that under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting the following documents:
(1) Any document shared to the European Commission by large Non-EU financial entities and/or their employees since July 2024. The documents should may come from the following entities:
From the UK : HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Natwest Group and Standard Chartered
From Switzerland: UBS Group
From the US: Blackrock, Vangard, Fidelity Investment, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo
(2) A list of the meetings held between members of the European Commission and/or its staff and the above-mentioned entities where the Article 36(1) of the Directive (EU) 2024/1760 was discussed
With my full consideration,
Yours faithfully,
Olivier Guérin
Reclaim Finance
6 rue de braque
75003 - Paris, France
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
100+ days ago, I submitted this request for information, asking under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, "any document shared to the European Commission by large Non-EU financial entities and/or their employees since July 2024"
15 weeks have past and I haven't been updated on the status of this demand apart from the initial acknowledge of receipt.
Please let me know if you need further information to respond to this demand.
Yours sincerely,
Olivier Guérin
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2025/1668, sent on 03/07/2025 and registered on 03/07/2025.
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date of registration. The time-limit expires on 24/07/2025. We will let
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days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear applicant,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2025/1668 registered on 3 July 2025.
We are currently working on your confirmatory request. However, we have
not yet been able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within
the prescribed time limit expiring on 24 July 2025 due to ongoing internal
consultations.
Therefore, in line with Article 8(2) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 we
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Kind regards,
Secretariat-General - Access to documents
European Commission
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