Translation of "Conseil de surveillance des industries réglementées " (French → English) :

Directive 2002/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on the supplementary supervision of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms in a financial conglomerate (3) provides competent authorities in the financial sector with supplementary powers and tools for the supervision of groups composed of many regulated entities, which are active in different sectors of the financial markets.

The coordinator shall also inform the competent authorities which have authorised regulated entities in the group and the competent authorities of the Member State in which the mixed financial holding company has its head office, and the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESA) established by Articles 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority) (20), of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Autho ...[+++]rity (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) (21) and of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authority) (22) (hereinafter “the Joint Committee”), respectively.

‘The competent authorities may also exchange with the following authorities such information as may be needed for the performance of their respective tasks, regarding regulated entities in a financial conglomerate, in line with the provisions laid down in the sectoral rules: central banks, the European System of Central Banks, the European Central Bank and the European Systemic Risk Board in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on European Union macro-prudential oversight of the financial system and establishing a European Systemic Risk Board (23).

If employees have participation rights in one of the merging companies under the circumstances set out in this Directive and, if the national law of the Member State in which the company resulting from the cross-border merger has its registered office does not provide for the same level of participation as operated in the relevant merging companies, including in committees of the supervisory board that have decision-making powers, or does not provide for the same entitlement to exercise rights for employees of establishments resulting from the cross-border merger, the participation of employees in the company resulting from the cross-bor ...[+++]der merger and their involvement in the definition of such rights are to be regulated.

The ECOFIN meeting on 7 May 2002 invited the Commission "having involved relevant supervisory authorities and Ministries of Finance and taking account of the views of the industry and consumers, to bring forward as soon as possible its report on the appropriate arrangements that are needed to facilitate the consistent implementation and enforcement of regulation including supervisory practices, in line with the recommendations of the Economic and Financial Committee's report on financial integration, to allow its use by the EFC" as a ...[+++]basis for EFC's own report.

A bureaucrat, as an individual, will be asked to sit at a boardroom table with major transnational corporations and have the courage to take a definition of cost-effectiveness that is in the public interest and against the interests of the regulated industry, with only his own wisdom to defend himself.