On May 21, 2015, the European Commission published a consultation document on the review of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. Under EMIR, the Commission must submit a report, together with any relevant legislative proposals, by August 17, 2015 to the European Parliament and the European Council, both of which will assess: (i) the potential need for measures to facilitate access by CCPs to central bank liquidity facilities; (ii) the systemic importance of transactions of non-financial counterparties in OTC derivatives and the impact of EMIR on such firms; (iii) the supervisory framework for CCPs; (iv) the efficiency of margining requirements to limit procyclicality and the need to define additional intervention capacity in this area; and (v) the development of CCPs' policies on collateral margining and their adaptation to the specific activities and risk profiles of their users. The Commission intends to focus only on those aspects of EMIR that have already been implemented, leaving out, for example, the obligation to exchange collateral for non-cleared derivatives. The report will also take into account other issues identified in the implementation of EMIR as well as reports submitted by the European Securities and Markets Authority to the Commission on, for example, the application of the clearing obligation and the application of the segregation requirements. Feedback on the consultation is due by August 13, 2015.
The consultation paper is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/finance/consultations/2015/emir-revision/docs/consultation-document_en.pdf .
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