欧洲中央银行:独立性及其司法解读

ECB:Independence and Its Judicial Interpretation

《建立欧洲共同体条约》赋予了欧洲中央银行在货币政策、组织与人事安排、财政等方面的高度独立性,其目的在于保障欧洲中央银行货币政策职能的顺利实现。欧洲法院的司法裁决表明,欧洲中央银行的独立地位是一种有限的、功能性的独立,并不是绝对的独立。欧洲中央银行不能在欧盟法律框架之外独立存在,但在该法律框架下,欧洲中央银行的货币政策职能的独立行使会得到有效保护。

The Treaty Establishing the European Comm unity grants ECB high-degree independence in the fields of monetary policy-making, organization and personnel arrangement, in order to ensure the smoothly realization of ECB＇ s monetary policy function. The judicial decision of ECJ shows that ECB enjoys only a limited and functional independence, not an absolute one. ECB could not exist outside legal framework of European Community but could be effectively protected when performing monetary policy function independently.