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Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business

Name: Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802209938
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Author: Eugenia Macchiavello
ISBN: 9781802209938

By Eugenia Macchiavello

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2022

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781802209938
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This innovative Commentary boasts contributions from internationally renowned experts with extensive and diverse backgrounds, providing a comprehensive, critical, article-by-article and thematic analysis of the EU Regulation No 1503/2020 on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business (ECSPR). Chapters analyse Member States’ adaptation of their legal frameworks to the ECSPR, underlying similarities, divergences, additional problematic issues and residual regulatory fragmentation.

Key Features:

A theoretical and cross-sectoral approach to crowdfunding services and relative regulations
Constant comparison of ECSPR’s provisions with other similar or interrelated EU frameworks
An article-by-article and thematic analysis of the ECSPR, underlying its strengths, innovative characters, and problematic aspects.
Analysis of the implementation of the ECSPR in different countries and adaptation of their legal frameworks, including France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Nordic countries and the Baltics

The Commentary is a fundamental companion to the interpretation and application of the ECSPR which will appeal to a diverse range of readers. Academics, scholars, practitioners and professionals interested in financial regulation, EU law, technology law, business law, law of contracts, competition law, international law and comparative law will find this a beneficial resource.

Foreword; Diego Valiante; Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; PART I. THE EUROPEAN CROWDFUNDING REGULATION: PRELIMINARY ASPECTS; 1.
Introduction to the Crowdfunding Regulation: Eugenia Macchiavello; 2.
The context: the crowdfunding market and its recent developments: Rotem Shneor; PART II. THE REGULATION ON EUROPEAN CROWDFUNDING SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR BUSINESS: AN ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE ANALYSIS; 3.
The scope of the ECSPR: the difficult compromise between harmonization, client protection and the level: playing field (Arts 1–2, 46, 48–9, 51); Eugenia Macchiavello; 4.
The provision of crowdfunding services under the ECSPR (Art 3): Sebastiaan Niels Hooghiemstra; 5.
Legal issues in the obligations for an effective and prudent management of crowdfunding service providers (Art 4): Federico Ferretti and Francesca Mattassoglio; 6. DUE DILIGENCE OF PROJECT OWNERS (Art 5); Marije Louisse; 7. Individual portfolio management of loans (Art 6); Roberto Ferretti; 8. Complaints handling (Art 7); Roberto Ferretti; 9. Intermediation risk and conflicts of interest (Art 8); Diogo Pereira Duarte; 10. Outsourcing under the ECSPR (Art 9); Ella van Kranenburg; 11. The provision of asset safekeeping services and payment services by ecps and third parties (Art 10); Sebastiaan Niels Hooghiemstra; 12. Prudential requirements for crowdfunding service providers (Art 11); Marije Louisse; 13.
Authorisation procedure, scope of authorisation and register (Arts 12–14): Tanja Aschenbeck and Lina Engler; 14. Supervision and reporting obligations of crowdfunding service providers (Arts 15–16); Francesca Chiarelli, Leonardo Droghini and Raffaele D’Ambrosio; 15. Causes and procedure of authorisation withdrawal (Art 17); Tanja Aschenbeck and Lina Engler; 16. The EU passporting system for crowdfunding service providers: towards a new type of passport for digital financial services? (Art 18); Vittorio Tortorici; 17.
Investor protection and information to clients (Articles 19–20 and 26): Diogo Pereira Duarte; 18. Between investor protection and access to crowdfunding: the entry knowledge test and the simulation of the ability to bear loss (Art 21 and Annex II); Joeri De Smet and Veerle Colaert; 19. Withdrawal rights in crowdfunding transactions: the precontractual reflection period (Art 22); Konstantinos Serdaris; 20. On the Merits of the Key Investment Information Sheet in the ECSPR (Arts 23–24 and Annex I); Karsten Wenzlaff, Ana Odorović, Tobias Riethmüller and Patrick Wambold; 21. Secondary markets for crowdfunding: bulletin boards (Art 25); Matteo Gargantini; 22. The new European rules on advertising crowdfunding campaigns: between proportionality and customer; protection (Arts 27–28); Tommaso Martini Varvesi and Vittorio Tortorici; 23. Competent authorities: their power and their coordination (Arts 29–30 and 33); Anna Maria Agresti; 24. From cooperation to coercion: the relationships between competent authorities under Articles 31, 34 and 37 ECSPR (Arts 31, 34, 37); Nathan de Arriba-Sellier; 25. ESMA and NCAs: cooperation in supervision (Art 32); Giuseppe Pala, Marco Lamandini and Raffaele D’Ambrosio; 26. Balancing confidentiality and transparency: the ECSPR professional secrecy standard in light of; cross-sectoral EU financial regulation and ECJ case law (Art 35); Eugenia Macchiavello; 27. The GDPR and the data processing of the competent authorities in performing their duties under the ECSPR (Art 36); Federico Ferretti; 28. Complaint handling: the role of competent authorities (Art 38); Anna Maria Agresti; 29. Ex post enforcement of the EU crowdfunding regime: administrative sanctions and measures (Arts 39–43); Konstantinos Serdaris; 30. The delegation of powers to the European Commission within the crowdfunding legal framework (Art 44); Federico Riganti; 31. The Commission’s interim report and prospective adaptations of the ECSPR (Art 45); Eugenia Macchiavello; 32. The protection regime of the Whistleblower Directive (Arts 47 and 50); Ghazale Mandegarian-Fricke; PART III. A FOCUS ON SPECIAL ISSUES WITHOUT ANSWER IN THE ECSPR; 33. The silence of the ECSPR on tax law; Ulrike Bär; 34. Crowdfunding in the EU: private international law issues by design; Ivana Kunda; 35. Crowdfunding, alternative investment funds and the relationship between the ECSPR and the AIFMD; Sebastiaan Niels Hooghiemstra; 36. Crowdfunding and DLTS; Filippo Annunziata and Thomaz de Arruda; 37. Crowdfunding platforms, competition law and platform sector regulation; Carmen Estevan de Quesada; 38. Crowdfunding and consumer credit protection in the EU; Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi and Edoardo Grossule; 39. Invoice trading and regulation: the case of Italy; Umberto Piattelli and Sofia Caruso; 40. Beyond the ECSPR and financial return; Eugenia Macchiavello and Chiara Valenti; 41. A comparative analysis between the UK and EU regulatory frameworks; Francesco De Pascalis; PART IV. THE IMPACT OF THE ECSPR ON THE CROWDFUNDING LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN SELECTED COUNTRIES; 42. Crowdfunding in France after the adoption of the ECSPR; Jean-Marc Moulin; 43. The crowdfunding regulation in Germany – on the path to self-isolation?; Karsten Wenzlaff and Ana Odorović; 44. The impact of the ECSPR on the crowdfunding legal framework in Italy; Umberto Piattelli and Sofia Caruso; 45. Where the ECSPR pinches the Dutch shoe: some brain teasers from a Dutch law perspective; Anne Hakvoort; 46. The Portuguese crowdfunding regime and the impact of the ECSPR; Diogo Pereira Duarte and Joana da Costa Lopes; 47. Comparison of Spanish crowdfunding regulation and ECSPR; Matilde Cuena Casas and Segismundo Álvarez Royo-Villanova; 48. The regulation of crowdfunding in the Nordic countries; Elif Härkönen, Thomas Neumann and Cecilie Højvang Christensen; 49. ECSPR implementation in the Baltics; Nikita Divissenko; 50. ECSPR versus the United States crowdfunding regime; Elif Härkönen; 51. Conclusions about the ECSPR and its harmonization force: a brief summary of the objectives achieved and the remaining ‘grey’ areas from a comparative law perspective; Eugenia Macchiavello; Annex: The evolution of the ECSPR text – overview of the main revisions in trilateral negotiations