CEBS organised a two day policy-level conference as an opening event to the Eurosystem programme ‘Strengthening macro and micro-prudential supervision in EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries with the objective to introduce to senior management supervisors from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo (under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999), Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey its activities and address relevant issues in the European financial supervision context.
This conference was a good occasion for policy makers of the eight EU candidates and potential candidates for an open dialogue with CEBS representatives, sharing experience from lessons learnt and getting acquainted with CEBS work, its structure, mandate and role in the EU financial supervision architecture.
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is composed of high level representatives from the banking supervisory authorities and central banks of the European Union. CEBS’s main tasks are to advise the Commission in the field of banking activities, to contribute to the consistent implementation of Community Directives and to the convergence of supervisory practices, and to enhance supervisory co-operation. The Committee is chaired by Mr. Giovanni Carosio. The CEBS Secretariat is based in London. The Secretary General of the Committee is Mr. Arnoud Vossen.