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EU AGENCIFICATION AND THE RISE OF ESMA: ARE ITS GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS FIT FOR PURPOSE?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2019

Elizabeth Howell
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Abstract

EU agencies have mushroomed in recent years and new agencies, such as those in the financial arena, can have far-reaching quasi-regulatory and supervisory powers. These developments raise fundamental questions as to their constitutional standing, the delegation of powers and how to wrestle the challenges of independence and accountability. This paper considers ESMA, the most ambitious new financial sector agency. It examines ESMA's governance and accountability mechanisms and makes normative proposals to better balance the competing supranational and national interests within it. Such refinements should also be implemented in conjunction with additional accountability requirements, particularly a greater role for the European Parliament. This reshaping is vital to guarantee ESMA's autonomy and legitimacy.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 324 - 354
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Slaughter and May Lecturer in Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Cambridge.

I am grateful to the two anonymous CLJ referees for their valuable comments. The usual disclaimers apply.

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69 Ibid., at Art. 43.

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91 Vos, EU Agencies on the Move, ch. 4.

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93 Ibid., at Art. 68; Moloney, EU Securities, ch. X.5.2.

94 Regulation 1095/2010, Art. 3.

95 Ibid., at Art. 43(4)–(6).

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109 The SSM's legal basis is Art. 127(6) TFEU (ECB competence for prudential supervision). The ECB is not subject to Meroni.

110 In line with s. 3, the SRM/SRB's legal basis is Art. 114.

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112 Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 (OJ 201 L 225 p.1).

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115 Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 (OJ 2013 L 287 p.63), Art. 25, see also Art. 1.

116 Ibid., at Art. 26.

117 Ibid., at Art. 26(3).

118 Ibid., at Art. 26(4).

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127 Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 (OJ 2013 L 287 p.63), Art. 20(2)–(5).

128 Ibid., at Art. 20(7).

129 Ibid., at Art. 20(8)-(9).

130 Ibid., at Art. 20(8); Ferran and Babis, “The European Single Supervisory Mechanism”.

131 Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 (OJ 2013 L 287 p.63), Art. 21.

132 Ibid., Recitals 54, 58, Arts. 22, 24.

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142 SSM Supervisory Manual (March 2018); ECB, Annual Report on Supervisory Activities for 2017.

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144 Amtenbrink and Markakis, “Towards a Meaningful Prudential Supervision Dialogue”.

145 “ECB Supervisor Defends Role in Italian Banking Crisis”, Financial Times (4 July 2017); cf. “Banco Popular Process Is a Model for Failing Banks”, Financial Times (8 June 2017); Moloney, “EU Financial Governance after Brexit”, p. 96.

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148 Moloney, “EU Financial Governance after Brexit”, p. 106.

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152 Curtin, “Holding”, p. 540.

153 Demarigny and Lannoo, Navigating the Minefield of the ESA Review.

154 European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation as Regards CCPs and Requirements for the Recognition of Third-country CCPs.

155 Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 5.

156 EIOPA is the smallest of the three and although its tasks may grow (particularly in relation to pan-EU pension product proposals), this will take time. The EBA's structure is also fundamentally impacted by the SSM's introduction and the ECB's shadow looms large over it; Ferran, E., “The Existential Search of the European Banking Authority” (2016) 17 EBOR 285Google Scholar.

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158 A. Sapir, N. Véron and G. Wolff, Making a Reality of Europe's Capital Markets Union (April 2018).

159 European Commission, ESAs' Review: Proposal, Art. 77a.

160 Ibid., at Art. 45.

161 Ibid., at Art. 45a(2).

162 Ibid., at Art. 48.

163 Ibid., at Recital 23.

164 Ibid., at Art. 47; Moloney, “Brexit and Financial Services”, pp. 193–94.

165 European Commission, ESAs' Review: Proposal, Art. 29a.

166 European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation as Regards CCPs and Requirements for the Recognition of Third-Country CCPs, p. 19.

167 European Commission, ESAs' Review: Proposal, Art. 40.

168 Ibid., at Art. 44.

169 Ibid., at Arts. 62, 62a.

170 Ibid., at Art. 62.

171 European Commission, Reinforcing Integrated Supervision to Strengthen CMU and Financial Integration in a Changing Environment, p. 9; Moloney, “Brexit and Financial Services”, p. 197.

172 Moloney, “EU Financial Governance after Brexit”, p. 111.

173 Demarigny and Lannoo, Navigating the Minefield of the ESA Review; House of Commons European Scrutiny Commitee, Fifth Report of Session 2017–19, HC 301-v (December 2017), s. 9; LSEG, Response to the ESA Review (January 2018).

174 Asset Management and Investors' Council, Feedback on ESAs Review (January 2018).

175 EFAMA: Review of the ESFS (January 2018); Irish Funds, Position on the Commission's Proposal for Reforming the ESFS (January 2018).

176 For criticism, see LSEG: Commission's CCP Proposals (2017), pp. 8–9.

177 ECOFIN, Presidency Compromise Proposal (5834/19) (February 2019); see also European Parliament, Draft Report on ESA Proposals 2017/0230(COD) (2018) (suggesting amendments including heightened accountability requirements).

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179 Craig, UK, EU and Global Administrative Law, pp. 541–42.

180 G. Majone, Regulating Europe (J. Richardson (ed.), Abingdon 1996) ch. 13; Craig, UK, EU and Global Administrative Law.

181 Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

182 Amtenbrink and Lastra, “Securing Democratic Accountability” (making the observation in the national context).

183 Mazars, Review of the New ESFS, s. 7; Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

184 More radically (and less likely), the Executive Board could be given full responsibility for supervisory matters enabling swifter action (which can be necessary in the financial sector) whilst requiring the Executive Board to be accountable to the Board of Supervisor, IMF, FSAP.

185 Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

186 Mazars, Review of the New ESFS, s. 2; Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

187 Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

188 Moloney, “International Financial Governance”.

189 Mazars, Review of the New ESFS, pp. 116–17.

190 Demarigny and Lannoo, Navigating the Minefield of the ESA Review, p. 4; Mazars, Review of the New ESFS, s. 2.1.3.

191 Bajakić and Božina Beroš, “Examining Agency Governance”, pp. 1753–54.

192 Craig, EU Administrative Law, ch. 6; Shapiro, “The Problems”, p. 287.

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195 Amtenbrink and Lastra, “Securing Democratic Accountability”; Amtenbrink and Markakis, “Towards a Meaningful Prudential Supervision Dialogue”.

196 Amtenbrink and Markakis, “Towards a Meaningful Prudential Supervision Dialogue”; Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

197 Bovens, Analysing and Assessing Public Accountability. In this regard although the Council would also need to be involved in any decision to revise ESMA's founding legislation, Moloney argues that Parliamentary disapproval can act as a proxy for formal sanctions and that ESMA has shown itself to be sensitive to institutional displeasure, see Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2.

198 Moloney, The Age of ESMA, ch. 2; ESMA, ECON Statement (October 2017) where the ESMA Chair commented on their continuous dialogue and looked forward to their continued cooperation.

199 Moloney, “Brexit and Financial Services”, p. 200; Moloney, N., “Brexit and EU Financial Governance: Business as Usual or Institutional Change?” (2017) 42 E.L.J. 112, at 121Google Scholar; Moloney, “Institutional Governance and Capital Markets Union”.

200 Curtin and Dehousse, “European Union Agencies”, p. 203.

201 Vos, EU Agencies on the Move.

202 Curtin, “Holding”, p. 536.