24/04/2024 (Agence Europe) – At a plenary session of the European Parliament on Wednesday 24 April, MEPs approved (448 votes in favour, 122 against, 20 abstentions) the revision of the EU rules governing market infrastructures (EMIR), as provisionally agreed in early February between negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council (see EUROPE 13345/24). The revision aims to improve the performance of EU clearing services. The compromises reached had been strongly criticised by one of the Parliament’s shadow rapporteurs for the text, Claude Gruffat (Greens/EFA, French) (see EUROPE 13348/24), because the Parliament wanted to favour direct supervision of central counterparties (‘CCPs’) by the European Securities and Markets Authority (‘ESMA’). See the final compromise on the Regulation: https://aeur.eu/f/avq; and on the Directive: https://aeur.eu/f/avr (BD)