Composite Screening Restrictiveness — Q-SCR Index
Twelve investment screening regimes scored on five pillars and aggregated into a weighted composite (0–100). Adjust the pillar weights below to test the robustness of the ranking. Select up to three jurisdictions to compare their quinary profiles in Section II.
Quinary Profile — Side-by-Side
The five-pillar structure renders every regime as a pentagon. A larger, more regular pentagon indicates a broad, muscular regime; asymmetry reveals where a regime concentrates its force — scope, triggers, call-in powers, procedure, or enforcement.
Indicative Deal Screener
A first-pass triage signal: given a jurisdiction, target sector, acquirer origin and stake, how likely is the transaction to trigger a mandatory notification? This is a heuristic pre-assessment, not a filing determination.
Method & Sources
The five pillars
Each regime is coded 0–10 on five pillars, aggregated as a weighted mean and rescaled to 0–100 (Q-SCR):
- P1 - Sectoral scope. Breadth of sectors captured by mandatory or reviewable screening.
- P2 - Triggers & thresholds. How low the ownership/control thresholds sit and whether notification is mandatory and suspensory.
- P3 - Call-in & ex-officio powers. Authority's ability to review non-notified deals, including retroactive reach.
- P4 - Procedural burden. Length and phasing of review, information demands, standstill effects.
- P5 - Enforcement & remedies. Sanctions for non-filing, unwinding powers, conditions and prohibition practice.
Lineage
The composite design follows the approach of Bencivelli et al. (2023, Banca d'Italia / CEPR), the first cross-country composite index of FDI screening restrictiveness, and complements the OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index (2024 series), which deliberately excludes security-motivated screening from its scores. Regime coverage reflects the new Regulation (EU) 2026/1386 (OJ 26 June 2026, applicable 17 January 2028: mandatory national regimes, minimum sectoral scope, 45-day Phase 1, 15-month-to-5-year call-in), national instruments (incl. the UK's March 2026 NARs reform, Germany's pending consolidated FDI Act), and the outbound layer opened by Commission Recommendation (EU) 2025/63 and the US OISP (statutory under the FY2026 NDAA).
Calibration status
Calibration v0.2 (8 July 2026): the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany are coded against verified primary and Tier-1 sources per memorandum Q-SCR·CAL·2026·01; the remaining nine regimes are held at the 2025 baseline pending the next calibration pass, and the EU-wide P3/P4 shifts under Regulation 2026/1386 will be coded at transposition. Expert legal validation is required before client-facing release (v1.0). The two-register discipline applies: this console encodes structural knowledge (Register S) and carries no client data.