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EU Reaction to the Financial Market Turmoil. Context of task force. Institutional issues which have hampered adequate functioning of European supervision Make recommendations to policy makers with a group reflecting a diversity of interests. Problems with Lamfalussy. Level 3 purely advisory
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Context of task force • Institutional issues which have hampered adequate functioning of European supervision • Make recommendations to policy makers with a group reflecting a diversity of interests
Problems with Lamfalussy • Level 3 purely advisory • Are asked to do more without resources and powers • Continuing problem with exchange of information • No framework for delegation of supervision
October Ecofin Council • common principles for cross-border financial crisis management • Ministers state that they will “carefully cooperate” in the case of a cross-border crisis and react “based on common terminology and on a common analytical framework” • a roadmap to practically enhance supervisory cooperation • Member states are ‘encouraged’ to sign ‘voluntary cooperation arrangements’ as soon as possible • Commission to clarify the scope of the EU’s deposit guarantee directive
T Padoa-Schioppa letter • Need for formal agency role for Level 3 Committees • Take binding decisions • Set standards • Need for a single rulebook • Integrated supervision of European-wide banks • Need for wise-men’s comittee
December Ecofin Council • role of the regulatory and supervisory Committees • Commission asked to consider various options to strengthen the Level 3 Committees “without unbalancing the current institutional structure”, and • Level 3 Committees were requested to strengthen the national application of their guidelines “without changing their legally non-binding nature” • Committees to analyse the options of “voluntary delegation of supervisory competences” • Committees were requested to appky qualified majority voting where necessary • financial support under the EU budget for the Level 3 Committee
G-4 Summit London (Jan 30) • EU: common ‘things’ but no framework (see October Ecofin) • regular reporting from the Level 3 Comm • strengthen and clarify the IMF's responsibility to oversee macro financial stability
Broader issues • What is transparency? • Lack of European-wide oversight, many spokes, no hub • Accountability and independence of supervisors • National mandate of supervisors, differences in powers • Harmonisation of objectives of supervision