Guideline of the European Central Bank of  3 February 2006  amending Guideline ECB/2005/5 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank and the procedures for exchanging statistical information within the European System of Central Banks in the field of government finance statistics  (ECB/2006/2)
Date: 2006-02-03
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: European Central Bank, European System of Central Banks, exchange of information, financial statistics

L 40/32

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

11.2.2006

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

GUIDELINE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

of 3 February 2006

amending Guideline ECB/2005/5 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central
Bank and the procedures for exchanging statistical information within the European System of
Central Banks in the field of government finance statistics

(ECB/2006/2)

(2006/87/EC)

THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,

HAS ADOPTED THIS GUIDELINE:

Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central
Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular
Article 5.1 and 5.2, Article 12.1 and Article 14.3 thereof,

Whereas:

Article 1

Guideline ECB/2005/5 is amended as follows:

1. Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

(1)

(2)

Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2103/2005 of
12 December 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No
3605/93 as regards the quality of statistical data in the
context of the excessive deficit procedure (1)
inter alia
revises the deadlines for reporting data in the context
of
consistency with the
deadlines of the European System of Accounts 95 (ESA
95) (2)
this
revision, from 2006 Member States will be obliged to
report data in the context of the EDP before 1 April and
1 October of each year.

transmission programme. As a result of

the EDP to ensure

their

Eurosystem’s

The
under Guideline
requirements
ECB/2005/5 of 17 February 2005 on the statistical
the European Central Bank
reporting requirements of
and the procedures for exchanging statistical information
within the European System of Central Banks in the field
of government finance statistics (3), should be based, for
reasons of consistency, on ESA 95 statistical standards as
far as possible. The deadlines in Article 4 of Guideline
ECB/2005/5 for the biannual reporting of complete data
sets by national central banks (NCBs) to the European
Central Bank (ECB) therefore need to be revised.

The NCBs shall report complete data sets twice a year,

‘1.
before 15 April and before 15 October.’;

2. Annex IV is amended as follows:

the word ‘September’ under the heading ‘First date of trans-
mission’
the two tables entitled
‘Current data’ and ‘Back data’
is replaced with the word
‘October’.

in the right column of

Article 2

This Guideline shall enter into force two days after its adoption.

Article 3

This Guideline is addressed to the NCBs of the Member States
that have adopted the euro.

Done at Frankfurt am Main, 3 February 2006.

(3)

In accordance with Article 12.1 and Article 14.3 of the
Statute, ECB guidelines
form an integral part of
Community law,

For the Governing Council of the ECB
The President of the ECB

Jean-Claude TRICHET

(1) OJ L 337, 22.12.2005, p. 1.
(2) Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the
in the
last
the European

European system of national
Community, OJ L 310, 30.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1267/2003 of
Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 180, 18.7.2003, p. 1).

and regional

accounts

(3) OJ L 109, 29.4.2005, p. 81.