Committee of European Securities Regulators

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The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) was an independent committee of European Securities regulators, in place from 2001 to 2010. On 1 January 2011, it was replaced by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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Background

Chairs' Informal Group

While Europe's banking supervisors came together in a regular format as early as 1972 with the creation of the Groupe de Contact, the process of international coordination came more slowly to the securities space, if only because many European countries lacked an independent securities commission. Eventually, in 1989, the leaders of the Belgian Banking Commission (est. 1935, with its mandate expanded to securities in the 1960s), French Commission des Opérations de Bourse (COB, est. 1967), Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB, est. 1974), UK Securities and Investments Board (SIB, est. 1985), Spanish Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV, est. 1988), and Dutch Stichting Toezicht Effectenverkeer (STE, est. 1989) decided to gather regularly in an informal group which also included the German Federal Ministry of Finance (as Germany had not yet established a federal securities authority). The group had its first meeting at the newly created Dutch authority in Amsterdam in November 1989, and the next ones in London (March 1990), Paris (June 1990), Rome (October 1990), and Brussels (January 1991). The founding members were soon joined by the chairs of the Luxembourg Commissariat aux Bourses (est. 1990) and Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM, est. 1991). [1] : 253 

Forum of European Securities Commissions

In 1997, the securities commissions replaced their informal group with a more formalized organization, the Forum of European Securities Commissions (known as FESCO). The chairs of FESCO's member authorities usually met four times a year, and the organization also supported several expert groups on thematic regulatory issues, with a small permanent secretariat based in Paris. By 2000, FESCO's membership had grown to 17 authorities (those of the EU's then 15 member states, plus Iceland and Norway in the European Economic Area in place since 1994): in addition to the Dutch STE, French COB, Italian CONSOB, Portuguese CMVM, and Spanish CNMV, these were the Central Bank of Ireland, Norway's Kredittilsynet (est. 1986), Denmark's Finanstilsynet (est. 1988), Belgium's Commission Bancaire et Financière (CBF, the new name of the Banking Commission since 1990), Greece's Capital Market Commission (est. 1991), Sweden's Finansinspektionen (est. 1991), Finland's Rahoitustarkastus (est. 1993), Germany's Bundesaufsichtsamt für den Wertpapierhandel  [ de ] (BAWe, est. 1995), Austria's Bundes-Wertpapieraufsicht (BWA, est. 1997), Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF, which replaced the Commissariat aux Bourses in 1998), UK Financial Services Authority (FSA, which replaced the SIB in 1998), and Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority (FME, est. 1999). The European Commission participated in FESCO meetings as an observer. [2] FESCO was in turn replaced by CESR in 2001.

Overview

CESR was a product of the Lamfalussy process established by the European Commission on June 6, 2001. [3] The role of this committee was to:

Two other Level-3 committees in the Lamfalussy process were created in 2004, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS).

On 1 January 2011, CESR was in turn replaced by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which is part of the European System of Financial Supervision.

Membership

The Committee's member organizations were: [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Commission des Opérations de Bourse, Rapport au Président de la République 1990 (PDF)
  2. ↑ Fabrice Demarigny (2000), "The Forum of European Securities Commissions (Fesco): an Answer to the Needs of a European Single Market for Financial Services", Revue d'économie financière (60): 125–133
  3. ↑ Decision 2001/527/EC
  4. ↑ CESR Report 2001-2002 (PDF)
  5. ↑ 2003 Annual Report of the Committee of European Securities Regulators to the European Commission / European Parliament / ECOFIN Council (PDF)
  6. ↑ CESR Annual Report 2010 (PDF)
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