ANIA - Associazione Nazionale fra le Imprese Assicuratrici

LANIA welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for an Industrial Accelerator Act to speed up and simplify permitting procedures for industrial projects in the EU. It strongly calls for the food industry, which is the leading industrial sector in Europe and France in terms of turnover and demploi, to be included among the strategic sectors benefiting from these measures, given the strong international competitive…

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Projet de règlement européen sur les emballages et déchets d’emballages Note de positionnement Paris, le 14/03/23 Un projet de règlement sur les emballages et déchets d’emballages a été présenté officiellement par la Commission européenne le 30 novembre 2022. Le présent document indique les remarques, commentaires et positions de l’ANIA sur ce projet de texte, à la date indiquée ci-avant.

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ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, deems important to revise the EU Taxonomy framework, with respect to the delegated regulations. ANIA welcomes the objective of simplification introduced by the European Commission in the sustainability Omnibus package and the simplification introduced by the European Commission in the Delegated Act amending the Disclosure Delegated Act, that represents a first step in the…

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, fully supports the process of simplification of sustainability reporting, initiated by the European Commission with the Omnibus I package. In this vein, we welcome the simplification of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), that should be effective and reduce the reporting burden for the insurance sector, both as preparers and as users of sustainability…

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, fully support the aim of promoting sustainable governance which represents a key issue for the sustainable transformation of the European economy. Interventions should however focus on limited principles set in hard law (with a principle-based approach) to be combined with an extensive soft law regime, thus allowing each company to exploit its sustainable potential in the…

We support the development of a strong Biotech Act that strengthens Europe’s competitiveness, supports industrial scaling, promotes sustainable bio-based innovation, and simplifies regulation. The Biotech Act should clearly include the agri-food sector, recognise advanced fermentation and existing bio-based industrial capacities, accelerate regulatory procedures while maintaining high safety standards, enable…

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ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, deems important to revise the SFDR framework in order to render it more effective to promote sustainable finance, while simplifying it in the interest both of financial market participants and of their clients.

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, deems important to revise the SFDR framework in order to render it more effective to promote sustainable finance, while simplifying it in the interest both of financial market participants and of their clients.

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, fully supports the CSRD proposal and its aim to significantly improve sustainability information and corporate sustainability reporting and welcomes the opportunity to provide some feedback. ANIA recognises that the CSRD proposal goes in the right direction of making corporate sustainability reporting more consistent, comparable and reliable.

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, supports the European Commission proposal for a decision aiming at a 2-year postponement of the date of adoption of the sector-specific ESRS (and those to be used by certain non-EU companies).

ANIA, the Italian Insurance Association, fully supports the proposal of the European Commission (EC) for establishing the European Single Access Point (ESAP), an EU-wide platform, to provide financial and non-financial information. The availability of quality, reliable, comparable, easily accessible, digital information is in general very important, but it is essential for ESG data.

ANIA appreciates the EC’s recognition of some important critical issues highlighted by the Insurance Industry in the stakeholder consultation, such as those related to the design and calibration of the Volatility Adjustment.

GB STANDARD PROPOSAL – FEEDBACK ANIA ANIA welcomes the proposal for a European Green Bond standard as both the issuers and the investors would benefit from an improved transparency and a harmonization of the rules for the external reviewers.