TITLE VI - THE FUNCTIONING OF THE UNION
CHAPTER I - PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE INSTITUTIONS
SECTION 3 - THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
ARTICLE III-393
The European Investment Bank shall have legal personality.
Its members shall be the Member States.
The Statute of the European Investment Bank is laid down in a Protocol.
A European law of the Council may amend the Statute of the European Investment Bank. The Council shall act unanimously, either at the request of the European Investment Bank and after consulting the European Parliament and the Commission, or on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament and the European Investment Bank.
ARTICLE III-394
The task of the European Investment Bank shall be to contribute, by having recourse
to the capital markets and utilising its own resources, to the balanced and
steady development of the internal market in the Union's interest. For this
purpose the European Investment Bank shall, operating on a non-profit-making
basis, in particular grant loans and give guarantees which facilitate the financing
of the following projects in all sectors of the economy:
(a) projects for developing less-developed regions;
(b) projects for modernising or converting undertakings or for developing fresh
activities called for by the establishment or functioning of the internal market,
where these projects are of such a size or nature that they cannot be entirely
financed by the various means available in the individual Member States;
(c) projects of common interest to several Member States which are of such a
size or nature that they cannot be entirely financed by the various means available
in the individual Member States.
In carrying out its task, the European Investment Bank shall facilitate the
financing of investment programmes in conjunction with assistance from the Structural
Funds and other Union financial instruments.