The European Securities and Markets Authority has drafted up some regulatory technical standards to do with the European Electronic Access Point, as required under the European Union's amended Transparency Directive.

The objective of the European Electronic Access Point (EEAP) is to provide an easy search and access tool for end-users who are looking for regulated information, such as annual reports, major shareholdings etc., about issuers admitted to trading on regulated markets in Europe. The EEAP will be a web portal, built and operated by ESMA, to provide a single point of access for banks to the regulated information stored by "officially appointed mechanisms" in each EU country. Currently, end users must search each such mechanism individually.

The EEAP will be developed over the next couple of years and will be made available to end-users "after 1 January 2018."