ESAs publish 2024 Joint Report on principal adverse impacts disclosures under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) have published their third annual Report on disclosures of principal adverse impacts under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

The Report assesses both entity and product-level Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) disclosures under the SFDR. These disclosures aim at showing the negative impact of financial institutions’ investments on the environment and people and the actions taken by asset managers, insurers, investment firms, banks and pension funds to mitigate them.

The findings show that financial institutions have improved the accessibility of their PAI disclosures. There has also been positive progress regarding the quality of the information disclosed by financial products, and, in general, in the quality of the PAI statements. A few National Competent Authorities (NCAs) also reported slight improvements in the compliance with the SFDR disclosures in their national markets.

Looking forward, the Report includes recommendations to NCAs to ensure convergent supervision of financial market participants’ practices, and to the European Commission for their comprehensive assessment on the SFDR.

The ESAs have also developed an overview of good practices related to the location, clarity, complexity of the disclosures based on a survey of NCAs.