– 52 – (1.2 – Other finance matters) D 566 (C11) Auditing of the accounts of the Union The Council, considering a) Resolution 94 (Rev. Guadalajara, 2010); b) the report of the Appraisal Committee for the selection of the External Auditor of the ITU, taking into account the ITU Financial Regulations and Rules (2011), decides to appoint the Italian supreme audit institution (Corte dei Conti) as the External Auditor of the ITU for auditing its 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 financial statements, instructs the Secretary-General to bring this decision to the notice of the President of the Italian supreme audit institution and to enter into an agreement with him, as appropriate. Ref.: Documents C11/110 and C11/120. D 571 (C12, last amended C14) Free online access to the Administrative Regulations, Council Resolutions and Decisions and other ITU Publications The Council, noting a) Decision 12 (Guadalajara, 2010) of the Plenipotentiary Conference, on free online access to ITU publications, that approved free online access to ITU-T Recommendations, ITU-R Recommendations, ITU-R Reports, the basic texts of the Union and the final acts of Plenipotentiary Conferences; b) that Decision 12 instructed Council to undertake a holistic study on the costs/benefits of providing other texts of the Union, including the Administrative Regulations of the Union, free online, noting further a) that Article 4 of the ITU Constitution that defines the Administrative Regulations (i.e. the International Telecommunication Regulations and the Radio Regulations) as instruments of the Union that complement the ITU Constitution and Convention; b) that Article 6 of the ITU Constitution that determines that Member States are bound to abide by the provisions of the Administrative Regulations; c) that according to Article 10 of the ITU Constitution the Council in the interval between Plenipotentiary Conferences shall act, as governing body of the Union, on behalf of the Plenipotentiary Conference within the limits of the powers delegated to it by the latter and that Council Resolutions and Decisions serve as instruments to ensure the efficient coordination of the work of the Union and exercise effective financial control over the General Secretariat and the three Sectors;