(27)For the purpose of strengthening the prudential supervision of credit institutions and the protection of clients of credit institutions, auditors should have a duty to report promptly to the competent authorities, wherever, during the performance of their tasks, they become aware of certain facts which are liable to have a serious effect on the financial situation or the administrative and accounting organisation of a credit institution. For the same reason Member States should also provide that such a duty applies in all circumstances where such facts are discovered by an auditor during the performance of his tasks in an undertaking which has close links with a credit institution. The duty of auditors to communicate, where appropriate, to the competent authorities certain facts and decisions concerning a credit institution which they discover during the performance of their tasks in a non-financial undertaking should not in itself change the nature of their tasks in that undertaking nor the manner in which they should perform those tasks in that undertaking.
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New version applies from 17/04/2007 — introduced by Commission Directive 2007/18/EC.
189 provisions change.
Later versions: 21/09/2007, 25/12/2007, 21/03/2008, 17/08/2009, 30/10/2009, 07/12/2009, 30/03/2010, 04/01/2011, 09/12/2011, 01/07/2013, 01/01/2014.
Recital 27 changes in this version: compare with the current text.