State or from any other body. The Community institutions and bodies
and the governments of the Member States undertake to respect this
principle and not to seek to influence the members of the decision-
making bodies of the ECB or of the national central banks in the
performance of their tasks.
ARTICLE 108
Each Member State shall ensure, at the latest at the date of the
establishment of the ESCB, that its national legislation including the
statutes of its national central bank is compatible with this Treaty and
the Statute of the ESCB.
ARTICLE 108a
1. In order to carry out the tasks entrusted to the ESCB, the ECB shall,
in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty and under the
conditions laid down in the Statute of the ESCB:
- make regulations to the extent necessary to implement the tasks
defined in Article 3.1, first indent, Articles 19.1, 22 and 25.2 of the
Statute of the ESCB and in cases which shall be laid down in the acts
of the Council referred to in Article 106(6);
- take decisions necessary for carrying out the tasks entrusted to the
ESCB under this Treaty and the Statute of the ESCB;
- make recommendations and deliver opinions.
2. A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its
entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Recommendations and opinions shall have no binding force.
A decision shall be binding in its entirety upon those to whom it is
addressed.
Articles 190 to 192 shall apply to regulations and decisions adopted
by the ECB.
The ECB may decide to publish its decisions, recommendations and
opinions.