The book was published on the ECB’s Web site at 4 p.m. yesterday and will be available from the ECB in hard copy format during the course of next week. Finally, let me inform you that the General Council discussed the monetary policy objectives, strategies and intentions of the non-participating EU central banks against the background set by the monetary policy of the Eurosystem.
This is the second time that such an exercise has been undertaken since the ECB was established. 3  BIS Review 132/1999