Date:January 2007

Ref.:CESR/06-691

CESR Website Survey

During the first half of 2007, CESR is planning to update and enhance its website, in order to better serve the new role of CESR. As CESR’s work is shifting from the level 2 capacity of giving advice to the European Commission based on consultations with market participants, to the role of ensuring supervisory convergence on a day-to-day basis, the website will need to follow. The current website is primarily built to facilitate the consultation process used in developing advice to the European Commission, however, in order to work effectively, and to achieve a maximum level of transparency, a new structure is needed, and in that respect we would like to ask for your participation.

We would like to gather any comments which would help us optimise the CESR website, in order to best serve our Members and the all the users of the website, and we therefore ask that you fill in the following questionnaire by26 February 2007.

About you

  1. Your activity

  1. Regulator

  1. Issuer

  1. Banking

  1. Investment Management

  1. Investment Services

  1. Legal and Accountancy

  1. Government

  1. Regulated markets, exchanges

  1. Retail investor

  1. Press

  1. Student

  1. Other : Please specify

  1. Where are you based

  1. EU MemberState

  1. Other European Country

  1. Africa

  1. America

  1. Asia

  1. Oceania (Australasia)

Use of CESR’s website

  1. How did you access CESR’s website?

a)Search engine
b)Link on the website of a national regulator
c)Link on another website (please specify)
d)Retrieved address from Annual Report/Business Card
e)Other
  1. Are you on CESR’s mailing list – in order to receive automatic updates when new documents are published?

Yes / No

If yes, have you experienced any problems? Please specify.

  1. How frequently do you visit the CESR website?

a)3-5 times per week
b)1-2 times per week
c)2-3 times per month
d)Less often
  1. For what purpose do you visit the CESR website?

a)Check for new developments
b)Answer consultations/attend hearings
c)To access past documents in the database
d)Other (please specify)
  1. Which specific areas of the site do you visit most and least often? (please indicate Never/Often/Very often)

a)News
b)Expert groups/operational groups
c)Media Centre
d)Documents
e)Consultations
f)Other (please specify)
  1. Do you find the information that you are looking for

a)Easily
b)Ok
c)With difficulty
d)Not found (please indicate which type of information)
  1. If you experience trouble finding relevant information, is there any way this can be improved?
  1. What technical problems, if any, do you encounter when navigating your way around the CESR website?
  1. What do you like about the CESR site?
  1. What do you dislike about the CESR site?
  1. Do you have any additional suggestions as to how the website could be improved or additional features you would like to see introduced?
  1. Do you have any other remarks about the CESR website?

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