PART THREE

UNION POLICIES AND INTERNAL ACTIONS
TITLE VIII

ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POLICY
CHAPTER 1

ECONOMIC POLICY

(ex Article 101 TEC)
Article 123
1
Overdraft facilities or any other type of credit facility with the European Central Bank or with the central banks of the Member States (hereinafter referred to as ‘national central banks’) in favour of Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies, central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or public undertakings of Member States shall be prohibited, as shall the purchase directly from them by the European Central Bank or national central banks of debt instruments.
2
Paragraph 1 shall not apply to publicly owned credit institutions which, in the context of the supply of reserves by central banks, shall be given the same treatment by national central banks and the European Central Bank as private credit institutions.