"Article 57 Notwithstanding the provisions of Directives 68/151/EEC and 77/91/EEC, a Member State need not apply the provisions of this Directive concerning the content, auditing and publication of annual accounts to companies governed by their national laws which are subsidiary undertakings, as defined in Directive 83/349/EEC, where the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) the parent undertaking must be subject to the laws of a Member State; (b) all shareholders or members of the subsidiary undertaking must have declared their agreement to the exemption from such obligation; this declaration must be made in respect of every financial year; (c) the parent undertaking must have declared that it guarantees the commitments entered into by the subsidiary undertaking; (d) the declarations referred to in (b) and (c) must be published by the subsidiary undertaking as laid down by the laws of the Member State in accordance with Article 3 of Directive 68/151/EEC; (e) the subsidiary undertaking must be included in the consolidated accounts drawn up by the parent undertaking in accordance with Directive 83/349/EEC; (f) the above exemption must be disclosed in the notes on the consolidated accounts drawn up by the parent undertaking; (g) the consolidated accounts referred to in (e), the consolidated annual report, and the report by the person responsible for auditing those accounts must be published for the subsidiary undertaking as laid down by the laws of the Member State in accordance with Article 3 of Directive 68/151/EEC."
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New version applies from 29/06/2006 — introduced by Directive 2006/43/EC.
54 provisions change.
Later versions: 05/09/2006, 01/01/2007, 16/07/2009, 19/07/2013.
Article 43 changes in this version: compare with the current text.