Traduction de «banque conseil » (Français → Anglais) :

On 23 May 2011, the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the President of the European Council for an opinion on Council Recommendation of 17 May 2011 on the appointment of the President of the European Central Bank (1).

29. Calls on the EU and its Member States to address, in agreement with its partners, the institutional anomaly whereby the EU is a major contributor to the WB Trust Funds, in fact a bigger aid donor than any of its Member States, and its operational partnerships with the Bank in the European and African regions are important, yet it has not even observer status on the WB Executive Board (only on its ministerial policy committee); stresses the importance of the EU as a whole as the largest global donor and highlights the efforts made by the Union to coordinate, align and reduce the fragmentation of its aid programmes, most notably through the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the European Consensus on Development; in the light of ...[+++] this, recognises the importance of pursuing efforts to achieve a seat as an observer on the Executive Board and aspiring to reform politically obsolete groupings of countries, by grouping EU Member States together under the same constituency; recalls that the same principle of pooling Member States together under an EU constituency should apply to the main Multilateral Development Banks, most notably the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the African Development Bank;

30. Calls on the EU and its Member States to address, in agreement with its partners, the institutional anomaly whereby the EU is a major contributor to the WB Trust Funds, in fact a bigger aid donor than any of its Member States, and its operational partnerships with the Bank in the European and African regions are important, yet it has not even observer status on the WB Executive Board (only on its ministerial policy committee); stresses the importance of the EU as a whole as the largest global donor and highlights the efforts made by the Union to coordinate, align and reduce the fragmentation of its aid programmes, most notably through the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the European Consensus on Development; in the light of ...[+++] this, recognises the importance of pursuing efforts to achieve a seat as an observer on the Executive Board and aspiring to reform politically obsolete groupings of countries, by grouping EU Member States together under the same constituency; recalls that the same principle of pooling Member States together under an EU constituency should apply to the main Multilateral Development Banks, most notably the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the African Development Bank;

4. The Eurosystem central banks shall fully and promptly reimburse the mandated central bank for any compensation paid by it to third parties where this stems from: (a) the participation requirements and award criteria; (b) a decision made by the selection panel on the basis of the participation requirements and award criteria; (c) the incorrect conduct of the selection panel, unless it acted in line with the written advice of the mandated central bank or has not received appropriate written advice from the mandated central bank on the issue concerned in advance; (d) any decision or event beyond the ...[+++]control of the mandated central bank including those which may affect the effectiveness of the licences granted.

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 ECB's Governing Council and approved by the Council of the European Union.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank adopted its opinion on 31 July and forwarded it to the Council and Parliament.