EC as regards the use of key information documents by management companies of undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) - Main contents

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dossier	COM(2021)399 - Amendment of Directive 2009/65/EC as regards the use of key information documents by management companies of undertakings ...
document	COM(2021)399
date	December 15, 2021

Article 1

In Directive 2009/65/EC, the following article is inserted:

‘Article 82a

1. Member States shall ensure that, where an investment company or, for any of the common funds it manages, a management company draws up, provides, revises and translates a key information document which complies with the requirements for key information documents laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*1), competent authorities consider that key information document to satisfy the requirements applicable to key investor information set out in Articles 78 to 82 and Article 94 of this Directive.

2. Member States shall ensure that competent authorities do not require an investment company or, for any of the common funds it manages, a management company to draw up key investor information in accordance with Articles 78 to 82 and Article 94 of this Directive where it draws up, provides, revises and translates a key information document which complies with the requirements for key information documents set out in Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014.

Article 2

1. By 30 June 2022, Member States shall adopt and publish the measures necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.

They shall apply those measures from 1 January 2023.

When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main measures of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.