32025D0504DECadopted 2025-03-11

Council Decision (EU) 2025/504

2 articles10 recitalsOfficial text on EUR-Lex →Legislative file 2024/0803(CNS) →

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Recital (1)The European Investment Bank (EIB) was subject to the 2022 review of multilateral development banks’ capital adequacy frameworks…
Recital (2)The CAF review recommendation on removing fixed lending limits from the statutes of multilateral development banks was made with the…
Recital (3)In response to that recommendation, other multilateral development banks are taking action to amend their statutes in respect of statutory…
Recital (4)Article 16(5) of the Statute of the EIB establishes a limit on the total signed debt operations (the gearing ratio), a limit on disbursed…
Recital (5)As outlined in the EIB Group’s 2024–2027 Strategic Roadmap (the Strategic Roadmap), there is a unanimous call for the EIB Group to play an…
Recital (6)The Strategic Roadmap is intended to respond to that call by enabling the EIB Group to deploy its capital in an efficient manner, while…
Recital (7)It is expected that the EIB Group’s activities under the Strategic Roadmap would be severely constrained by the gearing ratio, which limits…
Recital (8)On 21 June 2024, the Board of Governors of the EIB unanimously decided to increase the gearing ratio to 290 %, in order to enable the EIB…
Recital (9)The establishment of consensus amongst the shareholders of the EIB is desirable prior to any adjustments to the gearing ratio. The…
Recital (10)The Statute of the EIB should therefore be amended accordingly,

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