REGULATION (EU) No 1074/2013 of THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 18 October 2013
on statistical reporting requirements for post office giro institutions that receive deposits from non-monetary financial institution euro area residents
(recast)
(ECB/2013/39)
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular Article 5 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (1), and in particular Articles 5(1) and 6(4),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 1027/2006 of the European Central Bank of 14 June 2006 on statistical reporting requirements in respect of post office giro institutions that receive deposits from non-monetary financial institution euro area residents (ECB/2006/8) (2) needs to be substantially amended, in particular in the light of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (3); therefore it should be recast in the interests of clarity.
(2)
Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 provides in Article 2(1) that, for the fulfilment of its statistical reporting requirements, the European Central Bank (ECB), assisted by the national central banks (NCBs), shall have the right to collect statistical information within the limits of the reference reporting population and of what is necessary to carry out the tasks of the European System of Central Banks. Article 2(2)(b) further provides that post office giro institutions (POGIs) are part of the reference reporting population, to the extent necessary to fulfil the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements in the field of monetary and financial statistics.
(3)
The purpose of POGI data is to provide the ECB with adequate statistics on the financial activities of the POGI subsector in the Member States whose currency is the euro (hereinafter the ‘euro area Member States’), which are viewed as one economic territory.
(4)
Pursuant to Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1071/2013 of the European Central Bank of 24 September 2013 concerning the balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (ECB/2013/33) (4), the actual reporting population for that Regulation consists of the monetary financial institutions (MFIs) resident in the territory of the euro area Member States.
(5)
The euro area monetary aggregates and their counterparts are derived mainly from the MFI balance sheet data collected pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1071/2013 (ECB/2013/33). However, the euro area monetary aggregates include not only monetary liabilities of MFIs vis-à-vis non-MFI euro area residents excluding central government but also monetary liabilities of central government vis-à-vis non-MFI euro area residents excluding central government.
(6)
In some euro area Member States, POGIs do not belong to the central government sector under the revised European System of Accounts (hereinafter the ‘ESA 2010’) laid down by Regulation (EU) No 549/2013, and they are not limited to receiving deposits solely on behalf of their national Treasuries, but may receive deposits on their own account.
(7)
POGIs that receive deposits are in this respect performing similar activities to those performed by MFIs. Both types of entity should therefore be subject to similar statistical reporting requirements in so far as such requirements are relevant to their business.
(8)
It is necessary to ensure harmonised treatment and to safeguard the availability of statistical information on deposits received by POGIs.
(9)
The standards for the protection and use of confidential statistical information as laid down in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 should apply.
(10)
Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 provides that the ECB has the power to impose sanctions on reporting agents which fail to comply with statistical reporting requirements set out in ECB regulations or decisions,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation:
(1)
‘reporting agents’ and ‘resident’ have the same meaning as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98;
(2)
‘post office giro institution (POGI)’ means a post office that belongs to the sector ‘non-financial corporations’ (Sector 11, ESA 2010), and, as a complement to postal services, receives deposits from non-MFI euro area residents with a view to providing money transfer services for its depositors;
(3)
‘relevant NCB’ means the NCB of the euro area Member State in which the POGI is resident.
Article 2
Actual reporting population
1. The actual reporting population shall consist of the POGIs resident in the territory of the euro area Member States.
2. The Executive Board may establish and maintain a list of POGIs subject to this Regulation. The NCBs and the ECB shall make this list and its updates accessible to the POGIs concerned in an appropriate way, including via electronic means, the Internet or, at the request of the POGIs concerned, in paper form. The list shall be for information only. However, in the event that the latest accessible version of the list is incorrect, the ECB shall not impose sanctions on any POGI that has not properly fulfilled its statistical reporting requirements to the extent that it relied in good faith on the incorrect list.
3. NCBs may grant derogations to POGIs from the requirement to report statistical information under this Regulation, provided that the required statistical information is already collected from other available sources. NCBs shall check the fulfilment of this condition in good time in order to grant or withdraw, if necessary, any derogation with effect from the start of each year, in agreement with the ECB.
Article 3
Statistical reporting requirements
1. The actual reporting population shall report monthly statistical information relating to its end-of-month balance sheet, in terms of stocks, to the relevant NCB.
2. The statistical information required under this Regulation relates to business carried out by a POGI on its own account and is specified in Annexes I and II.
3. The statistical information required under this Regulation shall be reported in accordance with the minimum standards for transmission, accuracy, compliance with concepts and revisions set out in Annex III.
4. The NCBs shall define and implement the reporting arrangements to be followed by the actual reporting population in accordance with national requirements. The NCBs shall ensure that these reporting arrangements provide the statistical information required under this Regulation and allow accurate checking of the fulfilment of the minimum standards for transmission, accuracy, compliance with concepts and revisions specified in Annex III.
Article 4
Mergers, divisions and reorganisations
In the event of a merger, division or any other reorganisation that might affect the fulfilment of its statistical obligations, the reporting agent concerned shall inform the relevant NCB, once the intention to implement such operation has become public and within a reasonable time before it takes effect, of the procedures that are planned to fulfil the statistical reporting requirements set out in this Regulation.
Article 5
Timeliness
The NCBs shall transmit the statistical information reported pursuant to Article 3(1) and (2) to the ECB by close of business on the 15th working day following the end of the month to which they relate. The NCBs shall decide when they need to receive data from reporting agents in order to meet this deadline.
Article 6
Accounting rules for the purpose of statistical reporting
1. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the accounting rules followed by POGIs for the purposes of reporting under this Regulation shall be those laid down in the national transposition of Council Directive 86/635/EEC of 8 December 1986 on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions (5), as well as in any other applicable international accounting standards.
2. Deposit liabilities and loans shall be reported at the nominal amount outstanding at the end of the month. Deposit liabilities and loans shall not be netted against any other assets or liabilities.
3. Without prejudice to accounting practices and netting arrangements prevailing in the euro area Member States, all financial assets and liabilities shall be reported on a gross basis for statistical purposes.
4. NCBs may allow the reporting of provisioned loans net of provisions and the reporting of purchased loans at the price agreed at the time of their acquisition, provided that such reporting practices are applied by all resident reporting agents.
Article 7
Verification and compulsory collection
The NCBs shall exercise the right to verify or collect compulsorily the information which reporting agents are required to provide pursuant to this Regulation, without prejudice to the ECB’s right to exercise this right itself. In particular, the NCBs shall exercise this right when a POGI included in the actual reporting population does not fulfil the minimum standards for transmission, accuracy, compliance with concepts and revisions specified in Annex III.
Article 8
First reporting
First reporting shall begin with monthly data for December 2014.
Article 9
Repeal
1. Regulation (EC) No 1027/2006 (ECB/2006/8) is repealed with effect from 1 January 2015.
2. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex IV.
Article 10
Final provisions
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2015.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.
Done at Frankfurt am Main, 18 October 2013.