Europejski Urząd Nadzoru Ubezpieczeń i Pracowniczych Programów Emerytalnych (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority - EIOPA), Porada dla Komisji Europejskiej dotycząca ryzyka greenwashingu i nadzoru nad polityką finansów zrównoważonych

04 June 2024

EIOPA-BoS-24-159

Advice to the European Commission on greenwashing risks and the supervision of sustainable finance policies

In May 2022, the European Commission (EC) asked EIOPA to provide advice on greenwashing risks and the supervision of sustainable finance policies. This Final Report serves as EIOPA’s final input to the EC’s Call for Advice (CfA) on Greenwashing and complements EIOPA’s Progress Report on greenwashing published in June 2023 .

‘Sustainability claims’ made by insurance and pension providers should be accurate, substantiated, accessible and up to date. Relying on the ESAs’ understanding of ‘greenwashing’ and EIOPA’s understanding of ‘sustainability claims’, EIOPA sets out a common approach to supervise sustainability claims and greenwashing in the insurance and pensions sectors. This common approach composed of four principles follows a public consultation that ended in March 2024 . EIOPA applied this approach to a set of examples of sound and misleading...