29The Court notes that the Fourth Directive is intended to ensure the coordination of national provisions on the structure and content of annual accounts and reports and methods of valuation, for the purposes of protecting members and third parties. To that end, according to the third recital in its preamble, it is designed only to establish minimum conditions as to the extent of the financial information to be made available to the public (BIAO, paragraph 69).
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