This autumn, EMU issues will be on the agenda for negotiations. It is only natural that the Eurosystem will become more involved in this process in the future both in its advisory role and because of the implications for its own tasks and objectives.
The Eurosystem should be involved in the accession process and in other forms of cooperation with the applicant countries on all issues falling within its exclusive or shared areas of competence: monetary policy, exchange rate policy, payment systems, 7  BIS Review 102/1999  financial stability and the impact of enlargement on the Eurosystem itself.