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Official Journal of the European Union

Special Report No 35/2018

Transparency of EU funds implemented by NGOs: more effort needed

(2018/C 459/13)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 35/2018 ‘Transparency of EU funds implemented by NGOs: more effort needed’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors' website: http://eca.europa.eu
Official Journal of the European Union

Special Report No 26/2018

A series of delays in Customs IT systems: what went wrong?

(2018/C 385/03)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 26/2018 ‘A series of delays in Customs IT systems: what went wrong?’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors' website: http://eca.europa.eu.
Special Report No 05/2019

FEAD-Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: ‘Valuable support but its contribution to reducing poverty is not yet established’

(2019/C 126/05)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 05/2019 ‘FEAD-Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: Valuable support but its contribution to reducing poverty is not yet established’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors' website: http://eca.europa.eu.
Special Report No 22/2019

‘EU requirements for national budgetary frameworks: need to further strengthen them and to better monitor their application’

(2019/C 410/05)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 22/2019 ‘EU requirements for national budgetary frameworks: need to further strengthen them and to better monitor their application’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu
Official Journal of the European Union

Special Report No 14/2019

‘Have your say!’: Commission's public consultations engage citizens, but fall short of outreach activities

(2019/C 314/05)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 14/2019, ‘Have your say!’: Commission's public consultations engage citizens, but fall short of outreach activities has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors' website: http://eca.europa.eu.
Special Report 4/2020

‘Using new imaging technologies to monitor the Common Agricultural Policy: steady progress overall, but slower for climate and environment monitoring’

(2020/C 32/03)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report 4/2020 ‘Using new imaging technologies to monitor the Common Agricultural Policy: steady progress overall, but slower for climate and environment monitoring’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu.
Special Report No 19/2020

‘Digitising European Industry: an ambitious initiative whose success depends on the continued commitment of the EU, governments and businesses’

(2020/C 317/06)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 19/2020 ‘Digitising European Industry: an ambitious initiative whose success depends on the continued commitment of the EU, governments and businesses’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website (http://eca.europa.eu).
Official Journal of the European Union

Special Report 7/2020

Implementing Cohesion policy: comparatively low costs, but insufficient information to assess simplification savings

(2020/C 136/03)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report 7/2020 Implementing Cohesion policy: comparatively low costs, but insufficient information to assess simplification savings has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu
Official Journal of the European Union

Special Report 1/2021

‘Resolution planning in the Single Resolution Mechanism’

(2021/C 21/05)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report 1/2021 ‘Resolution planning in the Single Resolution Mechanism’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu
Official Journal of the European Union

Special report 22/2021

Sustainable finance: More consistent EU action needed to redirect finance towards sustainable investment

(2021/C 384/03)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that special report 22/2021 ‘Sustainable finance: More consistent EU action needed to redirect finance towards sustainable investment’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu.
Special report No 8/2021

Frontex’s support to external border management:

not sufficiently effective to date

(2021/C 219/08)

The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that special report No 8/2021 ‘Frontex’s support to external border management: not sufficiently effective to date’ has just been published.

The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors’ website: http://eca.europa.eu
Official Journal of the European Union

Special report 27/2022:‘EU support to cross-border cooperation with neighbouring countries – Valuable support, but implementation started very late and problems with coordination need to be addressed’

(2022/C 474/13)

The European Court of Auditors has published its special report 27/2022: ‘EU support to cross-border cooperation with neighbouring countries – Valuable support, but implementation started very late and problems with coordination need to be addressed’.

The report can be consulted directly or downloaded at the European Court of Auditors’ website: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=62741
Official Journal of the European Union

Special report 10/2022

‘LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated’

(2022/C 265/04)

The European Court of Auditors has published its special report 10/2022: ‘LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated’.

The report can be consulted directly or downloaded at the European Court of Auditors’ website: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=61355
Official Journal of the European Union

Special report 03/2023:

‘Internal electricity market integration - Complex legal architecture, delays, weaknesses in governance and incomplete market surveillance hamper full achievement of the ambitious objective’

(2023/C 39/03)

The European Court of Auditors has published its special report 03/2023: ‘Internal electricity market integration - Complex legal architecture, delays, weaknesses in governance and incomplete market surveillance hamper full achievement of the ambitious objective’.

The report can be consulted directly or downloaded at the European Court of Auditors’ website: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=63214
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY INSTITUTE
on a consultation from the Danish Ministry of Economic Affairs under Article 109f(6) of the Treaty
establishing the European Community and Article 5.3 of the Statute of the EMI
on a Law Proposal repealing the Credit Regulation Act No 543 of 17th October 1973
CON/95/17
1. On 22nd November 1995 the Danmarks Nationalbank forwarded a request of the Danish Ministry
of Economic Affairs for consultation to the EMI on a Law Proposal repealing the Credit Regulation
Act No 543 of 17th October 1973.
2. The Credit Regulation Act empowers the Minister of Economic Affairs, after negotiation with
Danmarks Nationalbank, to promulgate provisions designed to regulate credit made available
through financial institutions and to require each financial institution to hold specified liquid assets in
an amount as stipulated in the Act. This authorisation has never actually been exercised as credit
had been regulated by means of a system of credit policy agreements between the Nationalbank
and the credit institutions’ associations. These agreements had not been in use for more than a
decade and in October 1995, the Danmarks Nationalbank renounced the powers to conclude such
credit policy agreements. Against this background, the Danish authorities found the Credit
Regulation Act to be outdated.
3. The EMI welcomes that the changed circumstances allow the Danish authorities to repeal the
Credit Regulation Act and that the Danish Government considers its involvement in monetary policy
decision-making in this area no longer to be a prerequisite. With regard to the diversity of
instruments available to Danish monetary policy, the EMI considers that a repeal of the Credit
Regulation Act would not inhibit a continued effective conduct of the monetary policy of Danmarks
Nationalbank, nor the successful co-ordination of monetary policies between Member States.
Following the liberalisation of financial markets more than a decade ago, Danish monetary policy
has become market-oriented, with a focus on steering the short-term interest rate in the context of
its exchange rate objective. In this setting for monetary policy, credit regulations are not the
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appropriate tool to counter an excessive supply of credit by financial institutions. The propos al to repeal the Credit
efficient allocation of resources.
4.The EMI has no objections against this opinion being made public by the competent Danish
authorities at their discretion.
18th December 1995
GS/LD/97/416
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY INSTITUTE
on a consultation from the Belgian Ministry of Finance under Article 109f (6) of the Treaty establishing
the European Community (the “Treaty”) and Article 5.3 of the Statute of the EMI as elaborated in the
Council Decision of 22 November 1993 (93/717/EC) (the “Decision”) on a draft law amending the law
of 11 January 1993 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for purposes of money
laundering (the “draft law”)
CON/97/04
1. The present opinion was requested by the Belgian Ministry of Finance on 19 March 1997 which
submitted the draft law together with a commentary on the Articles thereof to the EMI. The
scope of the consultation was afterwards (in May 1997) clarified as to be confined to two
Articles of the draft law, namely:
- Article 13 which states that where a notarial deed records a transaction the amount of
which is ECU 25,000 or more, the payment of this sum must be carried out in the form of
a transfer or cheque; and
- Article 3 0 which intends to confine the provision of “money remittance services” mainly to
supervised financial institutions and to the persons registered by virtue of Article 139 of
the law of 6 April 1995 on the secondary markets, the legal status and supervision of
investment firms, intermediaries and investment advisers.
2. The EMI’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 1.1, first, fourth and fifth
indents, of the Decision, as the draft law concerns (i) means of payment, (ii) payment systems, in
particular for cross-border transactions and (iii) rules applicable to financial institutions in so far
as they influence the stability of financial institutions and markets.
3. The EMI notes that the restriction on the legal tender status of banknotes a s laid down in
Article  13 of the draft is not incompatible with principles which have been established at a
Community level. Indeed, the draft Council Regulation under Article 109l (4) of the Treaty
containing certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro confirms explicitly in
recital  19 that limitation on payments in notes and coins established by Member States for public
reasons, are not incompatible with the status of legal tender of euro banknotes and coins,
provided that other lawful means for the settlement of monetary debts are available. Such means
are indeed available in Belgium in the form of book transfers or cheques.
4. In addition, the restriction, for money laundering purposes, with regard to those parties which are
entitled to provide money remittance services as laid down in Article 30 of the draft law does not
encounter any reservations from the EMI’s point of view.
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(EMI)\1997\CON_97_04\EN_CON_97_04.doc5. The EMI has no objection to this opinion being made public.
10 July 1997
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 21 November 2000
at the request of the German Ministry of Economics and Technology on a draft decree
amending the Decree concerning payment st atistics data collection in Germany
(CON/00/28)
1. On 31 October 2000 the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the German
Ministry of Economics and Technology for an ECB opinion on a draft decree amending theDecree concerning payment statistics data collect ion in Germany (hereinafter referred to as the
"draft Decree").
2. The ECB’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on the fourth indent of Article 2(1) of
Council Decision (EC) No 98/415 of 29 June 1998 on the consultation of the European CentralBank by national authorities regarding draft legislative provisions. In accordance with the firstsentence of Article 17.5 of the Rules of Procedure of the ECB, this ECB opinion has been
adopted by the Governing Council of the ECB.
3. The draft Decree intends to raise the threshold for exemptions from reporting obligations for
balance of payments purposes from DEM 5 000 to EUR 12 500 and to repeal the obligation toreport import payments to the Deutsche Bundesban k with the objective of fostering the efficient
operation of payment systems within the euro area and to reduce the statistical reporting burdenof credit institutions and other reporting agents.
4. The ECB welcomes the rise in the threshold for exemption from the obligation to report for
balance of payments purposes from DM 5 000 to EUR 12 500 which is in line with the
recommendation expressed in the opinion agreed in June 2000 by the Committee for Monetary,Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics.
5. The ECB has no objection to removing the obligation to report payments for merchandise
imports for balance of payments statistics purposes to the Deutsche Bundesbank as foreseen bythe draft Decree and assumes that the change will not affect the overall quality of the Germancontribution to the euro area aggregates. 
6. The ECB confirms that it has no objections to this ECB Opinion being made public by the
competent national authorities at their discretion.
Done at Frankfurt am Main on 21 November 2000.
The President of the ECB
[Signed]
Willem F. DUISENBERG
EN
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 18 December 2003
at the request of the Spanish State Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs
on a draft proposal amending Article 6 of Law 13/1994 of 1 June on the autonomy of
the Banco de España
(CON/2003/28)
1. On 27 November 2003 the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request dated
26 November  2003 from the Banco de España at the request of the Spanish State Under-Secretary
for Economic Affairs for an opinion on a draft proposal amending Article 6 of Law 13/1994 of
1 June on the autonomy of the Banco de España (hereinafter the ‘draft amendment’).
2. The ECB’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on the second indent of Article  105(4) of the
Treaty establishing the European Community and the third indent of Article 2(1) of Council
Decision 98/415/EC of 29  June 1998 on the consultation of the ECB by national authorities
regarding draft legislative provisions, since the amendment would modify Law 13/1994 of 1 June
on the autonomy of the Banco de España (hereinafter ‘Law 13/1994’). In accordance with the first
sentence of Article 17.5 of the Rules of Procedure of the ECB, the Governing Council of the ECB
has adopted this opinion.
3. The ECB notes that the proposed amendment would introduce a new Article 6 bis in Law 13/1994
providing that the relations between the Banco de España and its members of staff are governed by
employment law. It would further refer to the restrictions imposed on certain members of staff who
may have access to confidential information on their securities market transactions and to their
obligations concerning information on their private financial activities, as laid down in the insider
trading rules in the Code of Conduct for the Staff of the Banco de España, adopted by Internal
Circular 10/2002 of 18 October 2002. The ECB notes that the data provided under these reporting
obligations is to be kept for a maximum of five years.
4. The ECB welcomes these rules intended to ensure that central bank staff do not benefit financially
from access to privileged information. In this respect, the ECB notes that the draft amendment
would incorporate into Law 13/1994 the insider trading rules that are already established in the
Banco de España’s Code of Conduct. Section Three of this Code of Conduct specifies the
requirements applying to those members of staff who have access to privileged information,
2including the obligation to submit an annual declaration to the internal audit office regarding their
private financial transactions. The ECB welcomes the legal certainty that would ensue from
incorporating these rules into Law 13/1994.
5. The ECB confirms that it has no objection to the competent national authorities making this
opinion publicly available at their discretion. This opinion will be published on the ECB’s website
six months after the date of its adoption.
Done at Frankfurt am Main on 18 December 2003.
The President of the ECB
[signed]
Jean-Claude TRICHET
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 186/3

Corrigendum to the opinion of the European Central Bank of 16 April 2004 at the request of the Council of the European Union on a proposal for a Council regulation concerning medals and tokens similar to euro coins (COM(2004) 39final)

(CON/2004/13)

(2004/C 186/04)

( Official Journal of the European Union C 134 of 12 May 2004 )

On page 11, paragraph 3, third line:

for:

‘… of the euro symbol (IJ) on metallic objects …’,

read:
3.

The proposed regulation amends Council Regulation (EC) No 3605/93 of 22 November 1993 on the application of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community (1). The objective of the proposed regulation is to improve the quality of the government accounts to be used for the application of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure (EDP), in particular government deficit and debt data (hereinafter ‘EDP data’). The proposed regulation obliges Member States to provide detailed inventories of the methods, procedures and sources used for the compilation of their government accounts, and both to inform the Commission (Eurostat) of any significant revision to the actual and planned government deficit and debt data that have already been reported and to document any significant revision to the actual government deficit and debt data that have already been reported. The proposed regulation further provides that the assessment of the quality of EDP data, including the underlying government accounts, shall be the responsibility of the Commission (Eurostat), which will carry out in-depth monitoring visits in the Member States, in addition to its dialogue visits, in order to monitor the government accounts reported and the underlying data compilation processes. The proposed regulation requires Member States to cooperate with visiting officials, to publish the government accounts reported for past years and to certify that these accounts comply with the principles established by Article 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community Statistics (2), and to request clarification from the Commission (Eurostat) on the correct accounting treatment of government transactions in case of doubt. The proposed regulation also recognises the right of the Commission (Eurostat) to express reservations on the quality of the government accounts reported and to amend such data.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 190/1

OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

of 5 July 2010

on a proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 974/98 as regards the introduction of the euro in Estonia and on a proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 as regards the conversion rate to the euro for Estonia

(CON/2010/52)

2010/C 190/01

Introduction and legal basis

On 26 May 2010 the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the Council of the European Union for an opinion on a proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 974/98 as regards the introduction of the euro in Estonia (1). On 30 June 2010 the ECB received a request from the Council of the European Union for an opinion on a proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 as regards the conversion rate to the euro for Estonia (2).

The ECB’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 140(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. In accordance with the first sentence of Article 17.5 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Central Bank, the Governing Council has adopted this opinion.

Observations

1. The proposed regulations will enable the introduction of the euro as the currency of Estonia following the abrogation of Estonia’s derogation in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 140(2) of the Treaty.

2. The ECB welcomes the proposed regulations.

Done at Frankfurt am Main, 5 July 2010. The President of the ECB Jean-Claude TRICHET

(1) COM(2010) 240 final.

(2) COM(2010) 341 final.