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2° Investing Initiative (2DII) welcomes the Call for Evidence in relation to modernising and updating the investor protection rules and establishing fully coherent and consistent regulatory requirements across the EU. Measures to increase consumer participation in capital markets must similarly address increasing consumer preferences for sustainable investment.

Finance Denmark (FIDA) supports the aims of the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) to enhance retail investor participation and protection, and to ensure that investors are offered high-quality advice for products and services, which bring them value for money. However, we are concerned with the narrow focus on costs, and we generally find that the effects of the package might not reflect the Commissions intentions.

2° Investing Initiative welcomes the initiative on a Retail Investment Strategy for the EU. A comprehensive strategy is essential to match the environmental and social ambition of the Green Deal and support and progress the retail investment focussed activities which began under the 2018 Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth.

Finance Denmark support the initiative of an EU Strategy for Retail Investors and suggest that the well-being of the investor is put at the center of the strategy. Consumer protection in the context of the CMU is about generating trust and transparency, whilst promoting a better investment and saving culture.