Decision of the European Central Bank of 22 April 2004 laying down the measures necessary for the paying-up of the European Central Bank’s capital by the participating national central banks (ECB/2004/6)

9.6.2004 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 205/7
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 22 April 2004
laying down the measures necessary for the paying-up of the European Central Bank’s capital by the participating national central banks
(ECB/2004/6)
(2004/503/EC)
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 28.3 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Decision ECB/2003/18 of 18 December 2003 laying down the measures necessary for the paying-up of the European Central Bank’s capital by the participating national central banks (1) determined how and to what extent the national central banks (NCBs) of the Member States that have adopted the euro (hereinafter the participating NCBs) should pay up the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) capital on 1 January 2004.
(2) In view of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union and their respective NCBs becoming part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) on 1 May 2004, Decision ECB/2004/5 of 22 April 2004 on the national central banks' percentage shares in the key for subscription to the European Central Bank’s capital (2) establishes with effect from 1 May 2004 the weightings assigned to the participating NCBs in the key for subscription to the ECB’s expanded capital (hereinafter the capital key weightings and the capital key respectively).
(3) The ECB’s subscribed capital will be EUR 5 564 669 247,19 from 1 May 2004.
(4) The expanded capital key requires the adoption of a new ECB decision repealing Decision ECB/2003/18 with effect from 1 May 2004 and determining how and to what extent the participating NCBs should pay up the ECB’s capital on 1 May 2004,