Caisse des Dépôts

As a major financing operator of sustainability in France as well as a long-term institutional investor with a long-standing commitment to responsible investment, the Caisse des Dépôts group highly supports the concepts and disclosures that the SFDR requires and thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide its opinion on how to improve the functioning of the SFDR.

As Frances leading long-term public investor and the primary financier of social and affordable housing, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to address housing affordability challenges across the European Union. The scale of the crisis - affecting households purchasing power, labour mobility, and social cohesion - justifies a coordinated European reflection.

The members of the European Association of Long-Term Investors have convened to analyse the Commissions proposed DNSH framework for the next MFF and to formulate constructive feedback grounded in their extensive experience as implementing partners. These discussions highlighted that the new guidance should build directly on the existing InvestEU Sustainability Proofing rather than establish a completely new system.

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), as a public financial institution with a mandate to support long-term investment and public interest missions in France, welcomes the European Commission initiative to simplify and modernize the EUs corporate tax directives framework through the proposed Taxation Omnibus.