Amendments to the European Green Bond Standard Regulation: An Analysis

The members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the EU Parliament have presented their proposed amendments to the regulation of an EU Green Bond Standard. Very significantly, they aim to regulate the entire European sustainable bond market via the EU Green Bond Standard Regulation and introduce comprehensive mandatory requirements for all sustainable bonds and their issuers.

Other proposals, on the other hand, would make the planned standard more attractive. For example, they provide for grandfathering of green bonds that have already been issued.