These guidelines and decisions, however, have no direct legal bearing on the statutes and/or internal rules governing international organisations and fora. This implies a need for the gradual adaptation of the traditional institutional framework for international relations.
That framework was not tailored to the involvement of monetary unions as such, nor to the advent of the Eurosystem - and, more generally, the euro area - as a new actor in international relations. Until now, this process of adaptation has been conducted to a large extent on the basis of ad hoc solutions.