- •Introduction
- •1 SPELLING
- •CONVENTIONS
- •INTERFERENCE EFFECTS
- •CAPITAL LETTERS
- •GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
- •HYPHENS AND COMPOUND WORDS
- •2 PUNCTUATION
- •FULL STOP
- •COLON
- •SEMICOLON
- •COMMA
- •DASHES
- •BRACKETS
- •QUESTION MARK
- •EXCLAMATION MARK
- •QUOTATION MARKS
- •APOSTROPHE
- •3 NUMBERS
- •WRITING OUT NUMBERS
- •FRACTIONS
- •RANGES
- •DATES AND TIMES
- •4 ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
- •ABBREVIATIONS
- •MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS
- •SCIENTIFIC SYMBOLS AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
- •5 FOREIGN IMPORTS
- •FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES IN ENGLISH TEXT
- •ROMANISATION SYSTEMS
- •6 VERBS
- •SINGULAR OR PLURAL AGREEMENT
- •PRESENT PERFECT/SIMPLE PAST
- •TENSES IN MINUTES
- •VERBS IN LEGISLATION
- •SPLIT INFINITIVE
- •THE GERUND AND THE POSSESSIVE
- •7 LISTS
- •8 SCIENCE GUIDE
- •SCIENTIFIC NAMES
- •9 FOOTNOTES, CITATIONS AND REFERENCES
- •10 CORRESPONDENCE
- •11 NAMES AND TITLES
- •PERSONAL NAMES AND TITLES
- •NAMES OF BODIES
- •12 GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
- •13 THE EUROPEAN UNION
- •14 PRIMARY LEGISLATION
- •THE TREATIES — AN OVERVIEW
- •THE TREATIES IN DETAIL
- •TREATY CITATIONS
- •15 SECONDARY LEGISLATION
- •LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES
- •TITLES AND NUMBERING
- •STRUCTURE OF ACTS
- •REFERRING TO SUBDIVISIONS OF ACTS
- •16 THE EU INSTITUTIONS
- •COMMISSION
- •COUNCIL
- •EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- •EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
- •COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
- •COURT OF AUDITORS
- •EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
- •COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- •EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
- •OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- •AGENCIES
- •17 REFERENCES TO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
- •THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL
- •BULLETIN AND GENERAL REPORT
- •18 EU FINANCES
- •BUDGET
- •FUNDS FINANCED FROM THE BUDGET
- •OTHER FUNDS
- •19 MEMBER STATES
- •PERMANENT REPRESENTATIONS/REPRESENTATIVES
- •NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
- •NATIONAL JUDICIAL BODIES
- •NATIONAL LEGISLATION
- •20 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES AND CURRENCIES
- •OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
- •CURRENCIES
- •21 EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- •Annexes
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operations, hold and manage the Member States’ official foreign-exchange reserves, and promote the smooth operation of payment systems.
The ECB was established on 30 June 1998, in accordance with its Statute. Its decision-making bodies are its Governing Council, Executive Board and
General Council.
OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
16.42European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) was established by the Treaty of Rome. Its main business is making or guaranteeing loans for investment projects. Capital is subscribed by Member States, but principally the EIB borrows on the market by issuing bonds. It provides financial support for projects that embody EU objectives in the Member States and in many other countries throughout the world. The Bank has a Board of Governors, a Board of Directors, a Management Committee and an Audit Committee.
16.43European Investment Fund. The European Investment Fund (EIF) is an institution whose main objective is to support the creation, growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It provides risk capital and guarantee instruments, using either its own funds or those available under mandates from the EIB or the European Union.
The EIF has a tripartite shareholding, which includes the EIB, the European Union represented by the European Commission, and a number of European banks and financial institutions, from both the public and private sector. The EIF acts in a complementary role to its majority shareholder, the EIB.
AGENCIES
16.44Over the years the EU has spawned a number of agencies to perform specific technical, scientific or managerial tasks. Participation in the agencies is not necessarily restricted to the Member States of the EU.
17 REFERENCES TO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL
17.1General. The full name of the Official Journal is Official Journal of the European Union and its official abbreviation in references is ‘OJ’. It is published in three series, ‘L’, ‘C’ and ‘S’, each serving different purposes. The L series contains EU legislation, the C series EU notices and information and the S series public procurement notices. Notices of recruitment competitions and some vacancy notices are published in separate ‘A’ issues of the C series (numbered, for example, ‘C227A’). For a fuller account of the three OJ series, see section 3.1.1 of the Interinstitutional Style Guide.
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