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Article 2Definitions
CELEX 32020R0852 · Read on 2026-08-18
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For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
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For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
(1)
‘environmentally sustainable investment’ means an investment in one or several economic activities that qualify as environmentally sustainable under this Regulation;
(2)
‘financial market participant’ means a financial market participant as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 and includes a manufacturer of a pension product to which a Member State has decided to apply that Regulation in accordance with Article 16 of that Regulation;
(3)
‘financial product’ means a financial product as defined in point (12) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088;
(4)
‘issuer’ means an issuer as defined in point (h) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council (69);
(5)
‘climate change mitigation’ means the process of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels, as laid down in the Paris Agreement;
(6)
‘climate change adaptation’ means the process of adjustment to actual and expected climate change and its impacts;
(7)
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