Brussels, 27/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - The financial markets Inter-Institutional Monitoring Group (IIMG) held its first meeting on 15 September in Brussels in the presence of Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, and French Socialist Pervenche Berès, Chair of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In place until December 2007, the IIMG has a broader mandate for assessing the implementation of the “Lamfalussy” approach in several financial sectors: banking, insurance, occupational pension schemes and securities markets and investment funds (see EUROPE 8997). It will draft three reports, the first of which is due March 2006. The group invites all parties involved in the Lamfalussy approach to send in their comments to the following online address: iimg-2005-2007@cec.eu.int