Article 57 Accounting, financial statements and annual report of the Investment FacilityF1

The EIB shall keep the accounts of the Investment Facility, including those interest rate subsidies that are implemented by it and financed by the EDF, to provide a trail for the full circuit of the funds, from receipt to disbursement and then to the revenue to which they give rise and any subsequent recoveries. The EIB shall draw up the relevant accounting rules and methods which are guided by international accounting standards and inform the Commission and the Member States accordingly.

Each year the EIB shall send the Council and the Commission a report on the implementation of operations financed from EDF resources under its management, including the financial statements drawn up in accordance with the rules and methods referred to in paragraph 1 and the information referred to in Article 44(3).

Those documents shall be submitted in draft form no later than 28 February and in their final version no later than 30 June of the financial year following the one which they concern, so that they can be used by the Commission in preparing the accounts referred to in Article 43 in accordance with Article 11(6) of the 10th EDF Internal Agreement. The report on the financial management of the resources managed by the EIB shall be submitted by the latter to the Commission by 31 March.