摘要：The euro was introduced on 1 January 1999 in
11 Member States and on 1 January 2001 in
Greece. Following the enlargement of the
European Union (EU) with ten new Member
States on 1 May 2004, in 2006 13 Member
States were not full participants in Economic
and Monetary Union (EMU). In producing this
report, the ECB fulfils the requirement of
Article 122(2) in conjunction with Article
121(1) of the Treaty establishing the European
Community (the Treaty) to report to the Council
of the European Union (EU Council) at least
once every two years or at the request of a
Member State with a derogation ¡°on the
progress made in the fulfilment by the Member
States of their obligations regarding the
achievement of economic and monetary union¡±.
The same mandate has been given to the
European Commission, and the two reports
have been submitted to the EU Council in
parallel.
