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July 22, 2011 ESMA has published a discussion paper setting out policy orientations on guidelines for UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds and structured UCITS. ESMA has reviewed the current regulatory regime applicable to such funds and considers that the existing requirements are not sufficient to take account of the specific features and risks associated with these types of fund. In the discussion paper, ESMA examines the possible measures that could be introduced to mitigate the risk that particularly complex products, which may be difficult to understand and evaluate, are made available to retail