Why join us?
1- Our Mission
- Strive for efficient capital markets combined with good corporate governance and responsible share ownership
- Influence the legal and regulatory framework applicable to listed companies and capital markets
2- Our Added Value
- Only pan European organisation to represent listed companies exclusively
- Speaking with a single voice gives more weight with EU and international bodies
- Being in Brussels allows close contacts with EU bodies and peer associations
- Wide network of contacts of issuers, other market participants and authorities
- Our Secretary General is the only representative of issuers in CESAME II, a group of experts appointed by the European Commission in view of dismantling the Giovannini Barriers
- Our Secretary General chairs a European working group that develops EU Market Standards for General Meetings, together with custodians, CSDs, registrars and investors
- Active member of the European working group that sets EU market standards for the processing of corporate actions
- Only issuers’ representative in the Tripartite group that coordinates various initiatives on cross-border voting, with the European Corporate Governance Forum and the Commission
- Only European issuers’ representative at the UNIDROIT Convention on Intermediated Securities
3- Top Priorities
- Contribute to a stable long-term investors base for European listed companies, among others through a EU wide framework for shareholder identification and cross-border voting
- Improve access to capital markets in particular for “smaller” issuers through revised regulatory regimes for the prospectus, transparency obligations and MiFID
4- Our Output
- Some 30 position papers produced in 2009. Topics include Shareholder Rights, Harmonisation of Securities Law, Financial Supervision, Corporate Governance, Clearing and Settlement, Market Abuse, Prospectus, Transparency, Short Selling, Hedge Funds, Audit, etc
- Speaking at conferences and debates throughout Europe
- Website and bi-monthly newsletter provide members with updated information about the developments in the regulatory framework applicable to issuers
