Brussels, 25 June 2026 – Eurosif, the leading pan-European sustainable finance association, welcomes that EU Member States have maintained the overall architecture of the European Commission’s proposal in their general approach on the review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). However, the position adopted yesterday at COREPER contains important gaps that must be resolved to ensure the future SFDR framework remains credible, comparable and effective in preventing greenwashing for both retail and professional investors.
The proposed professional investor opt-out could undermine market integrity by allowing products targeting exclusively professional investors to fall outside the SFDR framework. This could leave smaller professional investors, such as local government pension schemes with limited resources, without the comparability and safeguards provided by SFDR, creating uneven levels of protection across the market.
