The ECON Committee was designated as the committee responsible in relation to a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of transparency requirements with regard to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and amending Directive 2001/34/EC (COM(2003) 138 - C5-0151/2003 - 2003/0045(COD)) and the JURI Committee was asked to provide an opinion under the enhanced cooperation procedure (Rule 162a) - Conference of Presidents' decision of 26 June 2003 (original committee responsible: JURI (Minutes of 15.5.2003)).