On 24 April 2026, the European Commission adopted:
- Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 (the ESG Ratings Regulation) with regard to fees charged by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to ESG rating providers. This Delegated Regulation supplements the ESG rating Regulation by specifying the type of fees, the matters for which fees are due, the amount of the fees and the respective justification, the manner in which they are to be paid and, where applicable, the way in which ESMA is to reimburse competent authorities in respect of any costs that they might incur when carrying out tasks pursuant to that Regulation, in particular as a result of any delegation of tasks pursuant to the ESG rating Regulation.
- Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing the ESG Ratings Regulation with regard to rules of procedure on fines and periodic penalty payments imposed to ESG rating providers by ESMA. This Delegated Regulation sets out further rules of procedure for the exercise of ESMA’s power to impose fines or periodic penalty payments, including provisions on rights of defence, temporal provisions and the collection of fines or periodic penalty payments, and on detailed rules on the limitation periods for the imposition and enforcement of fines and periodic penalty payments.
Next steps
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament will now scrutinise the Delegated Regulations. If neither object, the Delegated Regulation on fees enters into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) and the Delegated Regulation on fines and periodic penalty payments enters into force on the twentieth day following its publication in the OJ.