European Central Bank 6 April 2011, Opinion of the European Central Bank of 6 April 2011 on the financing of a central register of bank account numbers (CON/2011/30)

EN OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK of 6 April 2011 on the financing of a central register of bank account numbers (CON/2011/30) Introduction and legal basis On 1 April 2011, the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the Belgian Ministry of Finance, for an opinion on three Parliamentary amendments1 to a draft law on various provisions (hereinafter respectively the ‘amendments’