Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/43/EC on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated accounts, Directive 2004/109/EC on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market, Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, and Regulation (EU) 537/2014 on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities.