Economic and monetary union. Legal and political texts
- Publisher:
- European Union Publications Office
- Publication date:
- 2007-06-01
- Authors:
- Council of the European Union Secretariat General
- ISBN:
- 9282432599
Description:
Since the adoption of the euro by Slovenia on 1 January 2007, the euro area comprises 13 member states and counts a population of more than 315 million who share the single currency and benefit from the euro.
This publication, issued jointly by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, brings together, in the format of a handy booklet, the core legal and political texts regulating the European monetary union and the euro.
This publication, issued jointly by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, brings together, in the format of a handy booklet, the core legal and political texts regulating the European monetary union and the euro.
Introduction of the euro
- Madrid European Council 15 and 16 December 1995 Presidency conclusions (extract)
- Council Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 of 31 December 1998 on the conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of the Member States adopting the euro
- Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro
- Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro
Exchange rate mechanism in the third stage of EM
- Resolution of the European Council on the establishment of an exchange rate mechanism in the third stage of economic and monetary union Amsterdam, 16 June 1997
- Report by the (Ecofin) Council to the European Council in Nice on the exchange rate aspects of enlargement 8 November 2000
- Common Statement on acceding countries and ERM2 Athens, 5 April 2003
- Agreement of 16 March 2006 between the European Central Bank and the national central banks of the Member States outside the euro area laying down the operating procedures for an exchange rate mechanism in Stage III of economic or and monetary union
- Agreement of 21 December 2006
External representation of the Community
Statutes of the Committees
- Council Decision of 21 December 1998 on the detailed provisions concerning the composition of the Economic and Financial Committee (98/743/EC)
- Council Decision of 18 June 2003 on a revision of the Statutes of the Economic and Financial Committee (2003/476/EC)
- Council Decision of 29 September 2000 on the composition and the statutes of the Economic Policy Committee
- Council Decision of 18 February 2003 concerning the establishment of the Financial Services Committee (2003/165/EC)