To promote the consistent application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and EU-specific reporting requirements, in October 2022 ESMA issued the public statement highlighting the areas that European national securities regulators will focus on when reviewing listed companies’ annual financial reports for the year ending on 31st December 2022. This publication aims at providing an overvierw of the main contents of the aforementioned statement, focusing on the priorities for 2022 financial and non financial reporting.
KEYWORDS: 2022 annual financial reports, climate-related matters, implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, macroeconomic environment, taxonomy-related disclosures, reporting scope and data quality, ESMA, enforcement priorities.
