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On the technical report on the EU taxonomy published in June 2019 by the technical expert group on sustainable finance
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On 18 June 2019 the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance – set up by the European Commission – published its technical report on the EU taxonomy. The report sets out the basis for a future EU taxonomy in legislation. It presents the results of the development of an EU classification system for environmentally-sustainable economic activities (‘Taxonomy’).
The published report constitutes a positive evolution of the interim results, which were submitted to the stakeholders for the first and second rounds climate change mitigation activities and adaptation activities.
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