IRELAND: Amendments to UCITS Notices and related Guidance Notes

Friday February 15 2013

The Central Bank of Ireland is implementing the ESMA guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues through a series of amendments to the UCITS Notices and related Guidance Notes. In this regard the Central Bank has on 15 February 2013, published revised UCITS Notices; revised Guidance Note 2/07: UCITS – Financial Indices and revised Guidance Note 3/03: UCITS – Financial Derivative Instruments.

A revised Guidance Note 4/07: Organisation of UCITS Management Companies has also been published. This has been amended inter alia to include a new section on the management company passport.

Please see the above link for more details.