As an official event partner, AEIP is delighted to invite its partners to join the Responsible Investment Live Conference on May 19, 2021, from 8:00 AM to 1:15 PM CET (fully digital), an occasion to hear new speakers discuss and develop their understanding of suitable and sustainable ESG policies. The early registration on the link below will assure your direct access to the conference and the possibility to exchange with all speakers. More information ...
On 3 May, AEIP gave its input to the European Commission’s consultation on VAT rules on financial and insurance services. The public consultation aimed at obtaining stakeholder views on the current functioning of VAT rules with a view to implementing possible changes and to review the relevant provisions of the VAT Directive (Council Directive 2006/112/EC) through a future legislative proposal. For the AEIP’s detailed contribution, which refers to provident institutions of social protection and IORPs, please see here ...
On 20th April AEIP provided its contribution to the consultation of the European Commission on the Green Paper on Ageing. AEIP welcomes the Green Paper on Ageing as it addresses the pressing issue of an increasingly ageing society and provides stakeholders with the opportunity to express their views and offer solutions from their perspectives. Given their role as non-for-profit social protection providers, paritarian institutions are particularly affected by the ageing phenomenon: with that regard, they have been developing solutions to guarantee high level quality services, while safeguarding the long-term sustainability and solidarity of social protection systems in the countries where ...
Under AEIP’s Presidency, the World Pension Alliance (WPA) published the paper on ‘2020 Global Regulatory Responses and Pension Fund Challenges Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic’. In this paper the WPA aims to provide an overview of the challenges that both pension funds and pension plan members faced during 2020 and promote the adoption of policies with a long-term view toward retirement security. While not overlooking the current difficult economic situation of many workers around the world, this research underscores the damaging effects of specific policies such as pension withdrawals. With that in mind, the paper summarizes the challenges and global ...
As a project partner of the Information Sharing Agreements (ISA) project, on 10th of February AEIP organized a webinar to present the guidelines that the consortium developed to promote transnational cooperation and posting of workers in the construction sector. Following the presentation of the ISA guidelines, representatives from the European social partners and the European Labour Authority shared their views on how to further promote these agreements and the cooperation between authorities and stakeholders involved in the posting of workers in the sector. The report of the event is available here ...
AEIP gave its input to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the establishment of a European single access point (ESAP). AEIP believes in the added value of including sustainability data in the scope of ESAP, since these are not always available to investors–contrary to financial data that are already more broadly accessible and available. This would support particularly smaller pension funds that aim to increase their level of ambition in the area of responsible investing. Similarly, it could also support them in implementing the requirements of the SFDR and reduce the costs thereof. In particular, the SFDR requires financial market ...
AEIP is delighted to be an official partner of the Responsible Investment Live Conference taking place on 19th May. In preparation of the event, you can watch the first virtual debate, presenting the point of view of paritarian investors with Aleksandra Kaydzhiyska, Executive Director of AEIP and Matthies Verstegen, European Affairs Adviser from the Dutch Federation of Pension Funds. Watch the debate here: https://bit.ly/3r6mXTL ...
In December 2020, the EC launched a public consultation to get inputs from stakeholders on the new EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work for 2021-2027. The past framework expired in December and the Commission, together with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is now working to present a new one for the a period of six years. In our reply, we suggested to promote the use of digital technology, increase the sharing of OSHA-related data and implement measures for the prevention of psychosocial risks. We also called on policy-makers to better involve occupational ...
As a follow up to the meeting of AEIP with DG FISMA’s Asset Management Unit on 30 November, AEIP’s Statement makes a concise overview of the points brought forward, with the aim to assist the EU policy regulators to better understand the particular characteristics of IORPs but to also address these concerns in their future legislative work. Overall, the statement of AEIP underlines that IORPs are pension institutions with a social purpose, managed jointly by social partners, that provide financial services, so they should not be treated as purely financial service providers. Since most IORPs in the EU are small ...
