
Article 1 
Article 1(6) of Decision 1999/70/EC shall be replaced by the following:
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6. PricewaterhouseCoopers SpA is hereby approved as the external auditor of the Banca d'Italia as from the financial year 2004, for a renewable period of three years.'
Article 2 
This Decision shall be notified to the European Central Bank.
Article 3 
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 13 September 2004.
For the Council
The President
B. R. BOT