2012/194/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 11 April 2012 amending Decision 2008/961/EC on the use by third countries’ issuers of securities of certain third country’s national accounting standards and International Financial Reporting Standards to prepare their consolidated financial statements (notified under document C(2012) 2256) Text with EEA relevance

Article 1 of Decision 2008/961/EC is amended as follows: 1. the second paragraph is replaced by the following: ‘From 1 January 2012, with regard to annual consolidated financial statements and half-yearly consolidated financial statements, the following standards shall be considered as equivalent to IFRS adopted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002: (a) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of the People’s Republic of China; (b) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of Canada; (c) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of the Republic of Korea.’; 2. the following third paragraph is added: ‘Third country issuers shall be permitted to prepare their annual consolidated financial statements and half-yearly consolidated financial statements in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of the Republic of India for financial years starting before 1 January 2015.’.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States. This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2012.