Naturally, the broad range of activities of the Eurosystem, of which I have tried to give you a concise, albeit incomplete overview, has placed severe strains on personnel resources. In order to be able to cope with the increase in operational and policy competencies, the ECB had to recruit further staff.
They have to focus their efforts in this context on crisis prevention. BIS Review 23/2000  2  Central banks need to monitor the markets constantly so that they can detect crisis signals at an early stage. For this they require prudential supervisory information on system-relevant individual institutions at first hand.