P9_TA(2024)0351 – Increasing the attractiveness of public capital markets and facilitating access to capital for SMEs – amending Directive – European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2024 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/65/EU to make public capital markets in the Union more attractive for companies and to facilitate access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and repealing Directive 2001/34/EC (COM(2022)0760 – C9-0415/2022 – 2022/0405(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)
Date: 2024-04-24
Institutions: Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on Legal Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: capital market, financial instrument, financial legislation, investment company, investment protection, issue of securities, small and medium-sized enterprises, stock-exchange listing




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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/3777


17.9.2025






P9_TA(2024)0351

Increasing the attractiveness of public capital markets and facilitating access to capital for SMEs – amending Directive


European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2024 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/65/EU to make public capital markets in the Union more attractive for companies and to facilitate access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and repealing Directive 2001/34/EC (COM(2022)0760 – C9-0415/2022 – 2022/0405(COD))


(Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)

(C/2025/3777)



The European Parliament,







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having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2022)0760),










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having regard to Article 294(2) and Articles 50, 51(2) and 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C9-0415/2022),










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having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 23 March 2023
                   (1),










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having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the responsible committee under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure and the undertaking given by the Council representative by letter of 14 February 2024 to approve Parliament’s position, in accordance with Article 294(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to Rule 59 of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A9-0303/2023),










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Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out;










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Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal;










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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.







(1)  
            OJ C 184, 25.5.2023, p. 103.






P9_TC1-COD(2022)0405


Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 24 April 2024 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2024/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/65/EU to make public capital markets in the Union more attractive for companies and to facilitate access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and repealing Directive 2001/34/EC



(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive (EU) 2024/2811.)




ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3777/oj
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