Consultations with all stakeholders on developing the preferred technical and security features for the current banknotes will commence in the near future. The problems with dye-stained notes arising from ineffective dye-staining devices have been successfully addressed. With the co-operation of the manufacturers and users of such systems, a new industry standard has been developed and implemented.
Price stability also fosters international competitiveness of domestic producers by stabilising the trade-weighted exchange rate (also known as the real effective exchange rate), in conjunction with the crawling of the nominal trade-weighted exchange rate (also referred to as the nominal effective exchange rate).