Sustainability Language

Sustainable finance & investment

European Single Access Point (ESAP)

The EU's central digital platform for public financial and sustainability information on companies and investment products.

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Definition

The European Single Access Point is an EU-wide platform, established by Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 (in force 9 January 2024), providing free digital access to publicly available financial and sustainability-related information about EU companies and investment products. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) must establish and operate it by 10 July 2027.

References

Regnology

Regulation (EU) 2023/2859, ESMA 2027 deadline, CSRD/SFDR content

Overview

What it means

ESAP centralises information companies already disclose — it creates no new reporting obligations — drawing in sustainability disclosures made under the CSRD and SFDR among other regimes. It is a building block of the Capital Markets Union and the EU digital finance strategy, intended to widen companies' visibility to investors, especially SMEs.

How it is used

Companies file disclosures through national contact points; investors, analysts and data users retrieve standardised information from a single portal.

Why it matters

ESAP is the infrastructure that will make EU sustainability disclosure machine-searchable at scale — the plumbing behind sustainable-finance transparency.

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