We prove the Iwasawa-theoretic version of a conjecture of Mazur-Rubin and Sano in the case of elliptic units. This allows us to derive the p-part of the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture at s D 0 for abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic fields in the semi-simple case and, provided that a standard -vanishing hypothesis is satisfied, also in the general case.