Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/194015 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Legal Working Paper Series No. 17
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper analyses regulatory solutions that have been adopted to address constitutional constraints imposed on the functioning of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), in which the ECB's exclusive supervisory competence is carried out. It argues that the operational framework governing the functioning of the SSM has assimilated, to a certain extent, three specific regulatory solutions underpinning the workings of the ESCB/Eurosystem: 1) the (legislative) allocation of certain tasks and responsibilities between ECB internal administrative bodies and structures; 2) the possibility of internal delegation of decision-making powers; and 3) the decentralised exercise of certain of the Union's tasks. Such a design of the SSM reflects institutional continuity concerning a political choice on how to achieve stage one of a genuine Economic and Monetary Union. It concludes that the Union operates at its best when centralised decision-making on substantial policy issues is combined with a decentralised operational framework allowing for the meaningful involvement of national administrations in the exercise of Union exclusive competences.
Subjects: 
ECB
Eurosystem
SSM
decentralisation
delegation
JEL: 
K10
K40
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ISBN: 
978-92-899-3399-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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