Commission Opinion on the draft Council Decision on a revision of the Statutes of the Economic and Financial Committee

In accordance with Article 242 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, the Council shall, after receiving an Opinion of the Commission, determine the rules governing the Committees.

The Council requested the Opinion of the Commission, in a letter dated 1 March 2012, on a revision of the Statutes of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), which are currently set out in the Council Decision of 18 June 2003 (2003/476/EC).

The proposed revision aims at accommodating some of the decisions concerning the governance of the euro area taken on 26 October 2011 by the Heads of State or Government of the Member States whose currency is the euro.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)177: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:177:FIN

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