Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on operations carried out under the EIB external mandate in 2010

Decision 633/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 requires the Commission to report annually on EIB financing operations carried out under guarantee, based on yearly reports provided by EIB.

Outside the EU, in the regions covered by the mandate, the Bank provides loans and loan guarantees with the cover of the EU guarantee ("operations under mandate") or at its own risk under the framework of Article 16 of its Statute ("own risk operations").

The present report reviews 2010 EIB financing operations under mandate and provides a summary of the own risk operations. The EIB operations in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) as well as in Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) are covered in a separate annual report.

The report reveals two major developments in 2010: the need for sustained crisis-response lending and the expansion of climate change related operations.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)036: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:036:FIN

European Commission: SWD(2012)3: Commission staff working document http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SWD:2012:0003:FIN:EN:PDF

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