Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1223 of 25 July 2016 amending Decision 2011/30/EU on the equivalence of certain third country public oversight, quality assurance, investigation and penalty systems for auditors and audit entities and a transitional period for audit activities of certain third country auditors and audit entities in the European Union (notified under document C(2016) 4637) (Text with EEA relevance)

‘2 A Member State shall not apply Article 45 of Directive 2006/43/EC in relation to auditors and audit entities that provide audit reports concerning the annual or consolidated accounts of companies incorporated in the third countries listed in Annex II to this Decision and whose transferable securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market of that Member State within the meaning of point 14 of Article 4(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , for financial years starting during the period from 2 July 2010 to 31 July 2018, provided that the auditor or audit entity concerned provides the competent authorities of that Member State with all of the following: (a) the name and address of the auditor or the audit entity concerned and information about its legal structure; (b) where the auditor or the audit entity belongs to a network, a description of the network; (c) the auditing standards and independence requirements which have been applied to the audit concerned; (d) a description of the internal quality control system of the audit entity; (e) an indication of whether and when the last quality assurance review of the auditor or of the audit entity was carried out and, unless this information is being provided by the third country competent authority, the necessary information about the outcome of the review. Where the necessary information about the outcome of the last quality assurance review is not public, the competent authorities of Member States shall treat such information on a confidential basis.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.