Luxembourg, 20/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - The chair of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), David Tweedie, told EU finance ministers on Tuesday 20 October 2009 that the IASB would publish the new IAS39 in November 2009. He said that stakeholders' views, including the views of the ECOFIN Council, had been taken into account and the IASB believed the new standard had considerably benefitted from advice received from Europe and elsewhere. He said the IASB had amended its original proposals in order to deal with the issues that had been brought up. The IASB is a private body that decides on accounting rules, IAS, that apply in the European Union. The ECOFIN Council has been relentlessly pressurising the IASB since the spring to get it speed up its review of IAS 39 to give EU financial institutions flexible accounting rules for assets that have lost value and to put them on an equal footing with their US counterparts. They were also responding to the G20's demand for the procyclical impact of international accounting rules to be minimised. (M.B. trans fl)