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CSSF Teleworking Circular 21/769


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On 9 April 2021 the CSSF printed a new Round 21/769 on
“Governance and stability prerequisites for supervised entities
to complete responsibilities or actions by means of Telework”
(“Telework Round”).
The Telework Circular does not utilize beneath pandemic predicaments
(these as Covid-19 pandemic) or in scenario of other excellent
conditions obtaining a comparable influence on the basic performing
disorders.
Beneath the Telework Round, all entities supervised by the CSSF
and the branches of the Luxembourg regulated entities found
overseas (“Supervised Entity”) will
be necessary to have sufficient employees associates at the premises to
comply with central administration requirements. Notably, the
amount of money of standard working time that personal team members are
allowed to telework, shall be restricted. At the very least a single authorised
manager/conducting officer shall be on-web page at the head business office at
all periods and important capabilities shall be adequately represented each
working day at the premises.
CSSF approval will not be necessary for teleworking: it will be
the responsibility of the Supervised Entities to evaluate regardless of whether its
interior policies comply with the requirements of the Telework
Circular (having into account its dimension and organisation and the
mother nature, scale and complexity of its routines).
The Supervised Entities shall establish all hazards resulting from
telework, as effectively as watch and mitigate them. The inner
controls functions (i.e. compliance and interior audit) shall also
think about the telework condition in their missions.
The Supervised Entities will be required to build a telework
plan and to evaluate and update existing guidelines and processes to
choose into account telework. The functional implementation of the
telework plan shall also be monitored and documented notably with
a record disclosing the identification and functionality of team authorized to
telework. Employees of the Regulated Entities shall be educated with
respect to teleworking. Also, unique IT requirements
talked about in the Telework Circular ought to also be complied with by
Supervised Entities in the context of telework (e.g.
encryption).
Ultimately, added demands also use from a labour law
perspective notably additional to the new arrangement on telework signed
on 20 Oct 2020 among the social associates LCGB, OGB-L and UEL,
which was declared a general obligation by Grand Ducal Regulation
of 22 January 2021 and which is now binding for all firms in
Luxembourg.
The Telework Round was because of to implement from 30 September 2021,
on the other hand, provided that the coronavirus is even now lively, the CSSF has
indicated that it will only implement as from the end of the pandemic,
in accordance with Posting 66 of the Telework Circular.
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