This Overview is a guide to the Financial Services content within the Financial Services regulation, getting started topic, UK and EU FS regulation, one minute guides subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.
The UK and EU FS regulation One minute guides are a series of Practice Notes containing a quick guide to key EU Directives and Regulations. They are intended to get the reader up to speed quickly.
The One minute guides listed below are summary guides only. For more detailed information on the relevant Directive or Regulation, and how these have been implemented and retained (and subsequently assimilated) in the UK, see the related essentials notes set out in Financial Services UK and EU financial services regulation—essentials—overview. As well as being listed in the UK and EU FS regulation—one minute guides subtopic, each guide is also located in the relevant subtopic in the Financial Services topic tree alongside the additional content relating to the relevant Directive or Regulation (as indicated below). For more information on retained EU law and assimilated law, see Practice Note: Brexit—impact on financial services [Archived]—Retained
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