JURI meeting 26-27 March

27 March 2008



Transparency of institutional investors

Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne

Exchange of views – postponed to 8 April

 

Hedge funds and private equity

Rapporteur: Piia Noora KAUPPI

Presentation of working paper – postponed to 8 April

 

The Committee on Legal Affairs has been granted enhanced cooperation in order to contribute to the own-initiative Report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

A parallel own-initiative report on Transparency of Institutional Investors is being prepared in JURI.

At this meeting, the draftswoman will present a working document, and a debate will follow.

 

Vote

A simplified business environment for companies in the areas of company law, accounting and auditing 

Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (EPP–ED)

The report was adopted with a number of compromise amendments.

 

The Rapporteur generally welcomed the Commission's approach and made a number of comments to the options and questions put by the Communication, as well as additional remarks in relation to the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new EU legislation and the recent Volkswagen judgment of the Court of Justice.

 

Compromise amendments see attached document below.

 


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