Translation of "European Commodities Exchange " (English → French) :

43. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the competences of European commodity exchange authorities so as to prevent speculation on food commodities and to work towards the implementation of adequate EU measures preventing speculation on non-agricultural commodities to influence agricultural futures;

The conference on European Technology platforms on 7 September is jointly organised by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB).

EU-Turkey JCC working documents and any further information can be obtained by contacting the secretariats: Mr Mustafa Bayburtlu, director, Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) (Tel: 00.90.312.413 82 30; e-mail: abm@tobb.org.tr) and Mr Jacques Kemp, administrator, Section for External Relations, European Economic and Social Committee (Tel: 00.32.2-546.98.10; e-mail: jacques.kemp@eesc.europa.eu).

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the Hungarian Budapest Stock Exchange (“BSE”), Budapest Commodity Exchange (“BCE”) and the Central Clearinghouse and Depositary (“KELER”) by a joint venture comprising the Austrian undertakings Wiener Börse AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank Aktiengesellschaft, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG and the Hungarian subsidiary of the German HVB Group, HVB Bank Hungary.

IV?CORPORATE FINANCING PAGEREF _Toc498928777 \h IV?STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: AN INSTRUMENT FOR STRUCTURAL REFORMS DRAFT COUNCIL REPORT TO THE NICE EUROPEAN COUNCIL PAGEREF _Toc498928778 \h VI?PUBLIC FINANCES PAGEREF _Toc498928779 \h VI?EXCHANGE-RATE STRATEGIES FOR ACCESSION COUNTRIES COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS PAGEREF _Toc498928780 \h VIIRECASTING THE FINANCIAL REGULATION PAGEREF _Toc498928781 \h VIIIITEMS DEALT WITH OVER LUNCH PAGEREF _Toc498928782 \h VIIIITEMS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATE PAGEREF _Toc498928783 \h XECOFIN PAGEREF _Toc498928784 \h X--Guarantee for loans for projects in Croatia PAGEREF _Toc498928785 \h XEXTERNAL RELATIONS PAGEREF _Toc498928786 \h X--Relations with Latvia participation in the "Youth" Programme PAGEREF _Toc498928 ...[+++]787 \h X--Relations with Slovakia PAGEREF _Toc498928788 \h X--Relations with Slovenia - Autonomous measures regarding agricultural products PAGEREF _Toc498928789 \h X--European Economic Area PAGEREF _Toc498928790 \h XI--Relations with the ACP countries PAGEREF _Toc498928791 \h XI--Commodities PAGEREF _Toc498928792 \h XI--Textiles negotiations with the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia PAGEREF _Toc498928793 \h XI--Anti-dumping imports of hairbrushes from China, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand PAGEREF _Toc498928794 \h XIAPPOINTMENTS PAGEREF _Toc498928795 \h XII--Committee of the Regions PAGEREF _Toc498928796 \h XIITRANSPARENCY PAGEREF _Toc498928797 \h XII--Public access to Council documents PAGEREF _Toc498928798 \h XII_________________

The IFBS has been registered as a company, with share holdings taken by the Russian State Finance Academy, the Russian Ministry of Finance, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Centre for Professional Banking Training in Paris and a number of Russian banks, stock and commodity exchanges.