BATTLE LINES DRAWN OVER BARNIER
May 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS, AND ROB STOKES
CRITICS of European Commission proposals for sweeping changes to audit practice and market regulation probably have a year or so to influence the final outcome.
This emerged in The CA's interview with Jonathan Faull, the Commission's director general for internal markets & services, about the so-called 'Barnier proposals' put forward by the European Union's (EU) internal market Commissioner Michel Barnier.
"Don't hold me to it, but I would guess we have at least 12 to 18 months ahead of us," Faull said ...
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