CELEX: 52006HB0014
Language: en
Date: 2006-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation of the European Central Bank of 9 October 2006 to the Council of the European Union on the external auditors of Banka Slovenije (ECB/2006/14)

25.10.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 257/19
            
         
      RECOMMENDATION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
   
   of 9 October 2006
   to the Council of the European Union on the external auditors of Banka Slovenije
   (ECB/2006/14)
   (2006/C 257/08)
   THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
   Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular Article 27.1 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               The accounts of the European Central Bank (ECB) and of the national central banks of the Eurosystem are audited by independent external auditors recommended by the Governing Council of the ECB and approved by the Council of the European Union.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Pursuant to Article 1 of Council Decision 2006/495/EC of 11 July 2006 in accordance with Article 122(2) of the Treaty on the adoption by Slovenia of the single currency on 1 January 2007 (1), Slovenia now fulfils the necessary conditions for the adoption of the euro and the derogation in favour of Slovenia referred to in Article 4 of the 2003 Act of Accession (2) is abrogated with effect from 1 January 2007.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The external auditors recommended herein are Banka Slovenije's current auditors, who were appointed for the financial years 2006 to 2008,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS RECOMMENDATION:
   It is recommended that Deloitte & Touche revizija d.o.o. should be appointed as the external auditors of Banka Slovenije for the financial years 2007 and 2008.
   
      Done at Frankfurt am Main, 9 October 2006.
      
         
            The President of the ECB
         
         Jean-Claude TRICHET
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 195, 15.7.2006, p. 25.
   
      (2)  OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33.