The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) has issued a version of its EUR 3 customs duty guidance dated 5 October 2026, and the title now names a second charge: the Union handling fee. Since 1 July 2026, Article 2 of Council Regulation (EU) 2026/382 has imposed a temporary EUR 3…
On 8 October 2026 ESMA published an opinion, reference ESMA75-113276571-1742, telling national competent authorities (NCAs) that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) should not provide crypto-asset services in relation to non-MiCA-compliant ARTs and EMTs: asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens for which the conditions of Title III or Title IV of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) are not met….
On 8 October 2026 the CSSF published the form behind a new filing, the CSSF white-label business notification. It applies to a Luxembourg investment fund manager (IFM) that manages, or intends to manage, a fund at the initiative of a third party, and it gives working shape to Article 13(2a) of the Law of 12…
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA). The AMLA MiCA review paper is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed, and reads MiCA…
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) opened its consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards for the central AML/CFT database under Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (AMLAR). The AMLA central database RTS sets out which supervisory information national authorities transmit to AMLA, in how…
ESMA’s response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA), reference ESMA75-113276571-1721, is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed. The ESMA MiCA review response is written as a thematic policy paper, and its asks reach the processes a crypto-asset service provider (CASP)…
On 6 October 2026 EIOPA published its Supervisory Statement on the authorisation and ongoing supervision of (re)insurance undertakings related to private equity, reference EIOPA-BoS-26/388, adopted by its Board of Supervisors on 29 September 2026. The EIOPA private equity insurers statement is addressed to national competent authorities and sets one EU-wide approach to two stages: the…
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) reported on 5 October 2026 that three quarters of its 27 member jurisdictions have published rules adopting the final Basel III standards, and that almost all of them have publicly announced that banks must apply Basel III by April 2027 or earlier. The figures come from the Committee’s…
On 2 October 2026 the CSSF’s Conseil de protection des déposants et des investisseurs (CPDI), Luxembourg’s designated authority for deposit guarantees, published Circular CSSF-CPDI 26/52. It launches the quarterly survey of covered deposits held on 30 September 2026 and gives every member of the Fonds de garantie des dépôts Luxembourg (FGDL) until 16 November 2026…
On 30 September 2026 the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union published its assessment of the CBAM de minimis threshold under Article 2a(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/956. For the twelve months from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, the assessment indicates that the 50-tonne single mass-based threshold would exempt 0.87% of the…