Brussels, 22/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament committee on economic and monetary affairs has drawn up a questionnaire on the scandal involving the manipulation of interests at which banks lend to each other (British LIBOR and European EURIBOR reference rates). Stakeholders are invited to respond to questions on: - the extent of the problem that could affect other indexes, financial products or markets; - the appropriateness of regulating the production of stock market indexes and the entities that produce them; - the measures to be taken in order to heighten transparency and the quality of information imparted to financial stakeholders; - and the powers that should be granted to supervisors for imposing sanctions for such manipulation. Answers to the questionnaire, which may be sent until Monday 17 September, will fuel reflection by Arlene McCarthy (S&D, UK), who is European Parliament rapporteur on the legislative package aimed at introducing criminal penalties in the event of market abuse (EUROPE 10476 and 10663). The questionnaire may be consulted at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201208/20120820ATT49765EN.doc (MB/transl.jl)