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SECURITIES REGULATION AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENTS

Syllabus

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Learning Objectives

LEARNING OUTCOMES:The course aims at providing the students with fundamentals on EU policies, strategies, actions in sustainable finance. The course will address ESG factors and their impact on capital markets and company law issues, instructing the students to analyze EU rules.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Knowledge and understanding of the EU capital markets and company law framework on ESG and sustainable finance.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Search for, understand, construe the EU sources of law on topics of interest
MAKING JUDGEMENTS: Ability to self assess and analize construing options of relevant norms on relevant topics
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Ability to illustrate a legal topic related to financial markets regulation and sustainability
LEARNING SKILLS: Ability to read a EU legal text related to financial markets regulation and sustainability and to identify the crucial norms and issues


Prerequisites

according to the University Programme

Program

Course provides an investigation of fundamentals of EU capital markets regulation, explores
the EU regulatory approach to environmental, social and governance goals of financial
regulation, and questions if the rationale for financial regulation allows for a sustainable
finance.
Fundamentals of EU capital markets regulation
Week 1: Fundamentals of EU financial regulation and the EU action plans on sustainable finance
Investment services and trading venues
Week 2: Offer of securities to the public; Transparency
Week 3: Take over; Market Abuse regulation (an introduction)

Sustainable finance and ESG
Week 4: Taxonomy Regulation; Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
Week 5: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Week 6: Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD); Brief overview of the industry codes of ethics

Books

1) EU regulations and directives texts (see table below) – available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/
2) F. ANNUNZIATA, Foundations of Eu Capital Markets Law, 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing (relevant parts and chapter as indicated in the table below)

Bibliography

1) EU regulations and directives texts (see table below) – available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/
2) F. ANNUNZIATA, Foundations of Eu Capital Markets Law, 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing (relevant parts and chapter as indicated in the table below)


Teaching methods

on site and in presence lectures. Discussion with students of issues.

Exam Rules

In writing and on site. Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes.
No books – no notes – no devices.
Two open-ended questions (0–10 points each), to be answered with a clear complete and reasoned explanation, and five questions (either true/false or open-ended) to be answered with a brief argument or explanation of the topic (0–5 points each).
The teacher reserves the right to check the result of the written exam with an oral examination covering the entire course syllabus.
No project work/take home.

Attendance Rules

Attendance is recommended