La Commission a déjà entamé des travaux sur les améliorations et simplifications qui pourraient être apportées aux dispositions actuelles, conformément au mandat donné par les ministres de l’économie et des finances en septembre 2004.
Among the obstacles identified, market participants pointed at the supervisory approval process for the acquisition of qualifying shareholdings in banks (article 16 of the EU Banking Directive 2000/12/EC). The Commission has already started to work on possible improvements and streamlining of the current provisions, which were mandated by Economic and Finance Ministers in September 2004.