Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market and repealing the Prospectus Directive.

The EU Prospectus Regulation provides for a single regime throughout the EU governing the requirement for a prospectus and its content, format, approval and publication. It repealed and replaced the Prospectus Directive (2003/71/EC). It entered into force on 20 July 2017 and applied in full from 21 July 2019.

In the UK, the EU Prospectus Regulation was replaced with the UK Prospectus Regulation at the end of the Brexit transition period (11.00 pm on 31 December 2020).

For further details, see Practice note, EU Prospectus Regulation.