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04/04/2017
New €50 banknote starts circulating today

31/03/2017
Statement by the staff of the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the second post-programme surveillance mission to Cyprus

28/03/2017
ECB welcomes dialogue with NGOs on transparency

09/03/2017
Monetary policy decisions

16/02/2017
Financial statements of the ECB for 2016

14/02/2017
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for end-September 2016

02/02/2017
Extended publication of Securities Holdings Statistics

01/02/2017
ECB appoints Roland Straub as Counsellor to the President

27/01/2017
Euro banknote counterfeiting remains low in second half of 2016

25/01/2017
Results of the December 2016 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)

20/01/2017
Results of the Q1 2017 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters

19/01/2017
ECB appoints Frank Smets as Director General Economics

19/01/2017
ECB provides further details on APP purchases of assets with yields below the deposit facility rate

19/01/2017
Monetary policy decisions

17/01/2017
Results of the January 2017 euro area bank lending survey

06/01/2017
ECB statement on Luc Coene, Member of the Supervisory Board and former Member of the Governing Council

23/12/2016
Results of the second wave of the Eurosystem’s Household Finance and Consumption Survey

15/12/2016
Governing Council statement on Macroprudential Policies

15/12/2016
Eurosystem adjusts purchase process in ABS purchase programme (ABSPP)

08/12/2016
Statement by European Commission and European Central Bank staff following the Fifth Post-Programme Surveillance mission to Portugal

08/12/2016
Eurosystem introduces cash collateral for PSPP securities lending facilities

08/12/2016
ECB adjusts parameters of its asset purchase programme (APP)

08/12/2016
Monetary Policy Decisions

02/12/2016
Statement by Commission and ECB staff following the conclusion of the sixth post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

30/11/2016
Foundation laid for pan-European instant payment solutions

30/11/2016
Report on the results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the Euro Area – April to September 2016

24/11/2016
ECB participates in United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
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24/11/2016
Global risk repricing endangers financial stability

23/11/2016
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for end-June 2016

08/11/2016
Prime Minister of Norway visits the ECB

03/11/2016
ECB reviews its risk control framework for collateral assets

03/11/2016
ECB amends Guidelines relating to the Eurosystem’s monetary policy implementation

27/10/2016
Report on financial structures details structural changes in the euro area financial sector

24/10/2016
Statement by the staff of the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the sixth post-programme surveillance visit to Spain

21/10/2016
Results of the Q4 2016 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters

20/10/2016
Monetary policy decisions

18/10/2016
Results of the October 2016 euro area bank lending survey

14/10/2016
Results of the September 2016 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)

05/10/2016
Changes to collateral eligibility criteria and risk control measures for unsecured bank bonds

30/09/2016
Statement by the staff of the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the first post-programme surveillance mission to Cyprus

27/09/2016
ECB and People’s Bank of China extend bilateral currency swap arrangement

20/09/2016
King of the Belgians visits the ECB
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14/09/2016
ECB publishes indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations and reserve maintenance periods in 2017 and 2018

08/09/2016
Monetary policy decisions

24/08/2016
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for end-March 2016

27/07/2016
ECB publishes Eurosystem disaggregated balance sheet data
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22/07/2016
Results of the Q3 2016 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)

22/07/2016
Euro banknote counterfeiting declines in first half of 2016

21/07/2016
Monetary policy decisions

19/07/2016
Results of the July 2016 euro area bank lending survey

11/07/2016
Results of the June 2016 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)

06/07/2016
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for end of 2015

05/07/2016
ECB unveils new €50 banknote

01/07/2016
EU structural financial indicators: End of 2015

24/06/2016
ECB is closely monitoring financial markets

22/06/2016
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the fourth post-programme surveillance mission to Portugal

22/06/2016
ECB reinstates waiver affecting the eligibility of Greek bonds used as collateral in Eurosystem monetary policy operations
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22/06/2016
European Central Bank opens its doors on Saturdays

16/06/2016
Eurosystem prepares introduction of new €50 banknote

10/06/2016
Statement following the conclusion of the fifth post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

07/06/2016
ECB publishes its Convergence Report 2016

02/06/2016
ECB announces remaining details of the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP)

02/06/2016
Monetary policy decisions

01/06/2016
Report on the results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the Euro Area – October 2015 to March 2016

24/05/2016
Euro area systemic stress contained despite bouts of global financial market turbulence

04/05/2016
ECB ends production and issuance of €500 banknote

03/05/2016
ECB publishes legal acts relating to the second series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO-II)

25/04/2016
Financial re-integration trend moderates, but ambitious capital markets union will boost benefits of integration

22/04/2016
Results of the Q2 2016 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)

21/04/2016
ECB announces details of the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP)

21/04/2016
Monetary policy decisions

19/04/2016
Press statement following the fifth post-programme surveillance visit to Spain

19/04/2016
Results of the April 2016 euro area bank lending survey

18/04/2016
Results of the March 2016 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)

16/04/2016
European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil sign a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation

14/04/2016
ECB appoints Anne-Sylvie Catherin as Director General Human Resources

10/03/2016
ECB adds corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP) to the asset purchase programme (APP) and announces changes to APP

10/03/2016
ECB announces new series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II)

10/03/2016
Monetary policy decisions

02/03/2016
ECB to participate in light show “Luminale 2016” in Frankfurt
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25/02/2016
ECB publishes quarterly Consolidated Banking Data for September 2015 and revisions

18/02/2016
Financial statements of the ECB for 2015

05/02/2016
ECB explains the Agreement on Net Financial Assets

04/02/2016
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the third post-programme surveillance mission to Portugal

04/02/2016
ECB appoints Roberto Schiavi as Director General Budget and Finance

22/01/2016
Results of the Q1 2016 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)

22/01/2016
Euro banknote counterfeiting declines slightly in second half of 2015

21/01/2016
Monetary policy decisions

19/01/2016
President of the Hellenic Republic visits the ECB
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19/01/2016
Results of the December 2015 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

19/01/2016
Results of the January 2016 euro area bank lending survey

07/12/2015
ECB introduces changes to euro foreign exchange reference rates

03/12/2015
Monetary policy decisions

02/12/2015
Report on the results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the euro area – April to September 2015

27/11/2015
Instant payments across Europe by November 2017

26/11/2015
ECB and the People’s Bank of China successfully test bilateral currency swap arrangement

25/11/2015
Risks from outside euro area rise according to latest ECB Financial Stability Review

25/11/2015
New €20 banknote starts circulating today

24/11/2015
Eurosystem to issue new €20 banknote tomorrow
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20/11/2015
ECB publishes two Guidelines relating to changes in the General Documentation

18/11/2015
ECB publishes quarterly Consolidated Banking Data for March and June 2015

16/11/2015
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on Cyprus

13/11/2015
Statement following the conclusion of the fourth post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

10/11/2015
ECB publishes new statistical report on the Household Sector

09/11/2015
Increase in PSPP issue share limit enlarges purchasable universe

30/10/2015
ECB publishes calendars of its Executive Board Members

29/10/2015
Report on Financial Structures details structural changes in the euro area financial sector

23/10/2015
Results of the Q4 2015 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)

22/10/2015
Monetary policy decisions

20/10/2015
Results of the October 2015 euro area bank lending survey

16/10/2015
Results of the September 2015 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

13/10/2015
ECB appoints Michael Diemer to be first Chief Services Officer

13/10/2015
2.8 million shops and small businesses to receive leaflets on the new €20

12/10/2015
Press statement following the fourth post-programme surveillance visit to Spain

06/10/2015
ECB publishes guiding principles for speeches and meetings

30/09/2015
Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2015

23/09/2015
ECB announces new Secretary to its decision-making bodies

23/09/2015
Eurosystem adjusts purchase process in ABS programme

21/09/2015
ECB publishes enhanced statistics on loans to the euro area private sector adjusted for sales and securitisation

16/09/2015
Communication on Emergency Liquidity Assistance

04/09/2015
ECB to install new artwork in front of main building

03/09/2015
Monetary policy decisions

31/08/2015
ECB publishes Guideline amending the General Documentation on monetary policy implementation

28/08/2015
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for Dec-2014

27/07/2015
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on Cyprus

23/07/2015
ECB and partners sign memorandum of understanding on new €20 banknote

22/07/2015
New breakdowns of monetary and financial statistics

17/07/2015
Results of the Q3 2015 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)

17/07/2015
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

Decline in euro banknote counterfeits in first half of 2015 – 
overall number remains very low

16/07/2015
Monetary policy decisions

14/07/2015
Results of the July 2015 euro area bank lending survey

08/07/2015
Diverging monetary policy cycles impact international use of the euro

06/07/2015
ELA to Greek banks maintained

03/07/2015
Results of the June 2015 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

01/07/2015
EU structural financial indicators: 2014

28/06/2015
ELA to Greek banks maintained at its current level

23/06/2015
Prime Minister of France visits the ECB
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22/06/2015
Roadmap for the future of the Economic and Monetary Union

22/06/2015
TARGET2-Securities successfully launched today

22/06/2015
ECB publishes indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations in 2016

22/06/2015
ECB publishes indicative calendar for the reserve maintenance periods in 2016

18/06/2015
ECB Governing Council takes note of ruling on OMT

12/06/2015
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the second post-programme surveillance mission to Portugal

03/06/2015
Monetary policy decisions

02/06/2015
Report on the results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the euro area – October 2014 to March 2015

01/06/2015
TARGET2 turnover stable in 2014, according to annual report

28/05/2015
Growing financial risk appetite within a gradual economic recovery – Financial Stability Review

20/05/2015
Statement from the European Commission, ECB and IMF on Cyprus

12/05/2015
BIS, ECB and IMF publish the Handbook on Securities Statistics

11/05/2015
ECB mourns Alexandre Lamfalussy, one of the euro’s founding fathers

08/05/2015
Statement from the European Commission, ECB and IMF on Cyprus

06/05/2015
ECB school competition draws highest participation yet

01/05/2015
Statement following the conclusion of the third post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

30/04/2015
ECB publishes its Euro Money Market Study 2014

27/04/2015
Financial integration in Europe rebounds, ECB report finds

16/04/2015
Results of the Q2 2015 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters

15/04/2015
Statement on incident at ECB press conference

15/04/2015
Monetary policy decisions

14/04/2015
Results of the April 2015 euro area bank lending survey

10/04/2015
Results of the March 2015 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

02/04/2015
3rd International Conference on the Protection of the Euro against Counterfeiting

29/03/2015
European Central Bank and Bank of England announce measures to enhance financial stability in relation to centrally cleared markets in the EU

27/03/2015
ECB and central banks in the Western Balkans complete EU-funded cooperation programme

23/03/2015
Statement following the third post-programme surveillance visit to Spain

23/03/2015
Eurosystem and the Central Bank of Montenegro complete EU- funded cooperation programme

18/03/2015
ECB marks official inauguration of its new premises

05/03/2015
Monetary policy decisions

04/03/2015
ECB takes note of General Court judgment on location policy for CCPs

24/02/2015
New €20 banknote unveiled in Frankfurt today

20/02/2015
ECB announces publication of a new Guideline on the implementation of monetary policy

19/02/2015
Financial statements of the ECB for 2014

11/02/2015
ECB enhances accessibility and visualisation of its statistics

06/02/2015
Statement from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Cyprus

06/02/2015
ECB launches online game related to the security features of the new €20 banknote

04/02/2015
Eligibility of Greek bonds used as collateral in Eurosystem monetary policy operations

25/01/2015
“New Face of the Euro” exhibition opens in Osnabrück
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23/01/2015
Results of the Q1 2015 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters

23/01/2015
Results of the December 2014 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and otc derivatives markets (SESFOD)

23/01/2015
More counterfeits in second half of 2014 but overall number remains very low

22/01/2015
ECB announces a modification to the interest rate applicable to future targeted longer-term refinancing operations

22/01/2015
ECB announces expanded asset purchase programme

22/01/2015
Monetary policy decisions

20/01/2015
Results of the January 2015 euro area bank lending survey

16/01/2015
Euro changeover successfully completed in Lithuania
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14/01/2015
Comments by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board, on the legal opinion of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in the OMT case
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12/01/2015
European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of India sign a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation

01/01/2015
Lietuvos bankas joins the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement

01/01/2015
Lithuania joins the euro area

22/12/2014
ECB publishes revised Ethics Framework and new Code of Conduct for Supervisory Board members to reflect supervisory tasks

19/12/2014
Eurosystem to unveil the new €20 and support banknote equipment manufacturers and suppliers

18/12/2014
ECB to publish accounts of monetary policy discussions from January

12/12/2014
Closing of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB – Bulgaria 2014
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09/12/2014
ERPB to address instant payments in euro and remaining SEPA issues

04/12/2014
Monetary policy decisions

27/11/2014
Weak economic prospects exacerbate financial system risks - Financial Stability Review

21/11/2014
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the conclusion of the second post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

21/11/2014
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for June 2014

12/11/2014
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of enterprises in the euro area – April to September 2014

10/11/2014
European Central Bank announces winners of art competition for its new premises

07/11/2014
High-rise rescue exercises at the ECB’s new premises
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07/11/2014
ECB suspends early repayments of the three-year LTROs during the year-end period

06/11/2014
ECB publishes letters from 2010 on Ireland

06/11/2014
Monetary policy decisions

05/11/2014
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the first post-programme surveillance mission to Portugal
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04/11/2014
ECB assumes responsibility for euro area banking supervision

03/11/2014
First wave of staff move into the new premises of the European Central Bank

30/10/2014
ECB appoints executing asset managers for the ABS Purchase Programme

30/10/2014
ECB publishes Regulation on supervisory fees

29/10/2014
Results of the October 2014 euro area bank lending survey

26/10/2014
ECB’s in-depth review shows banks need to take further action

24/10/2014
Transitional provisions for the application of minimum reserve requirements in Lithuania

23/10/2014
ECB launches public consultation on draft Regulation on reporting of supervisory financial information

22/10/2014
Statement about media reports ahead of comprehensive assessment results

20/10/2014
ECB and EBA step up cooperation to make retail payments safer

17/10/2014
Statement on New York Times articles

17/10/2014
Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2014

14/10/2014
Opening of the European Cultural Days of the ECB – Bulgaria 2014
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13/10/2014
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the second post-programme surveillance mission to Spain

13/10/2014
ECB report details structural changes in the euro area banking sector

10/10/2014
ECB to disclose final results of comprehensive assessment

08/10/2014
Results of the September 2014 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

06/10/2014
President of the Republic of Finland visits the ECB

02/10/2014
ECB announces operational details of asset-backed securities and covered bond purchase programmes

02/10/2014
Monetary policy decisions

30/09/2014
Launch of the fourth Generation €uro Students’ Award competition

22/09/2014
New €10 banknote starts circulating tomorrow

18/09/2014
ECB allots €82.6 billion in first targeted longer-term refinancing operation

18/09/2014
ECB announces first list of governors subject to voting rotation

09/09/2014
ECB launches EU-funded cooperation programme with the Central Bank of Montenegro

08/09/2014
Members of the Administrative Board of Review appointed

04/09/2014
ECB publishes final list of significant credit institutions

04/09/2014
ECB modifies loan-level reporting requirements for some asset-backed securities

04/09/2014
Monetary policy decisions

21/08/2014
ECB identifies systemically important payments systems

08/08/2014
ECB publishes Comprehensive Assessment Stress Test Manual

07/08/2014
Monetary policy decisions

01/08/2014
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) reaches major milestone for retail payments

30/07/2014
Results of the July 2014 euro area bank lending survey

29/07/2014
ECB publishes legal act relating to targeted longer-term refinancing operations

26/07/2014
Eurosystem and EMEAP central banks hold seventh high-level policy dialogue

25/07/2014
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Fifth Review Mission to Cyprus

24/07/2014
ECB announces theft of contact information

23/07/2014
Lithuania to join euro area and single supervisory mechanism (SSM) on 1 January 2015

18/07/2014
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeits - Number of counterfeits remains low

17/07/2014
ECB publishes indicative calendar for Governing Council Meetings and reserve maintenance periods in 2015

17/07/2014
ECB publishes disclosure process for comprehensive assessment

16/07/2014
Signs of a turnaround in the international use of the euro

11/07/2014
Data shows slight decline in number of bank branches in most EU countries

10/07/2014
Results of the June 2014 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

03/07/2014
ECB announces further details of the targeted longer-term refinancing operations

03/07/2014
ECB to adjust schedule of meetings and to publish regular accounts of monetary policy discussions in 2015

03/07/2014
Monetary policy decisions

01/07/2014
Smoke extraction tests at the new ECB premises
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30/06/2014
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for Dec-2013

23/06/2014
ECB publishes final results of Macro-prudential Research Network

17/06/2014
ECB extends US dollar liquidity-providing operations beyond 31 July 2014

12/06/2014
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on Portugal
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05/06/2014
ECB introduces a negative deposit facility interest rate

05/06/2014
ECB announces monetary policy measures to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism

05/06/2014
ECB announces features of monetary policy operations with settlement until December 2016

05/06/2014
Monetary policy decisions

04/06/2014
ECB publishes its Convergence Report 2014

02/06/2014
3 million shops and small businesses will receive leaflets about the new €10 banknote

28/05/2014
Financial Stability Review shows progress in strengthening banks and sovereigns; hunt for yield contributing to the build-up of new risks

27/05/2014
ECB launches public consultation on draft ECB regulation on supervisory fees

22/05/2014
External Debt Statistics Guide for Compilers and Users

22/05/2014
Annual report shows TARGET2 processed a greater total volume of payments in 2013

19/05/2014
ECB and other central banks announce the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement

17/05/2014
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Fourth Review Mission to Cyprus
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08/05/2014
Monetary policy decisions

02/05/2014
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the conclusion of the first post-programme surveillance mission to Ireland

02/05/2014
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the Twelfth Review Mission to Portugal
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30/04/2014
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – October 2013 to March 2014

30/04/2014
Results of the April 2014 euro area bank lending survey

29/04/2014
ECB to give banks six to nine months to cover capital shortfalls following comprehensive assessment

29/04/2014
SEPA for cards continues efforts to create a truly European payments area

28/04/2014
Integration in European financial markets improved, but still worse than before crisis, new European Commission, ECB reports show

25/04/2014
ECB publishes SSM Framework Regulation

17/04/2014
ECB launches EU-funded cooperation programme with central banks in the Western Balkans

17/04/2014
Results of the March 2014 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

04/04/2014
Statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank following the conclusion of the first post-programme surveillance mission to Spain

03/04/2014
More than 4,500 students participate in the third Generation €uro Students’ Award competition

03/04/2014
Monetary policy decisions

20/03/2014
Statement of the ECB on SRM agreement

19/03/2014
Statement by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund on the review mission to Greece
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11/03/2014
ECB publishes manual for asset quality review

10/03/2014
European Central Bank launches competition to design site-specific works of art for its new premises

07/03/2014
Supervisory board members appointed

06/03/2014
Monetary policy decisions

28/02/2014
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the eleventh review mission to Portugal
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25/02/2014
New report on card fraud shows online fraud increased in 2012

20/02/2014
Annual Accounts of the ECB for 2013

11/02/2014
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Third Review Mission to Cyprus
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10/02/2014
ECB supports new European directive for electronic payments

07/02/2014
ECB launches public consultation on draft ECB SSM Framework Regulation

06/02/2014
Monetary policy decisions

04/02/2014
ECB’s Executive Board decides on new distribution of responsibilities among its members

04/02/2014
New ECB guide will help assess security of internet payments

03/02/2014
ECB makes progress with asset quality review, and confirms stress test parameters for comprehensive assessment

28/01/2014
Results of the December 2013 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

28/01/2014
ECB and United Nations release handbook on financial production, flows and stocks

24/01/2014
US dollar liquidity-providing operations as of 1 February 2014

22/01/2014
ECB proposes candidate for vice-chair of the SSM Supervisory Board

21/01/2014
Decline in the number of monetary financial institutions continued in 2013

20/01/2014
New statistics show SEPA migration gathers pace in December

15/01/2014
‘New face of the euro’ exhibition opens in Saarbrücken
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15/01/2014
Euro banknotes and coins have been successfully introduced in Latvia
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13/01/2014
More counterfeits in second half of 2013 but overall number remains very low

13/01/2014
New €10 banknote unveiled in Frankfurt today

09/01/2014
New Directors General for Supervision Appointed

Four new Directors General to take up positions in early 2014

09/01/2014
Monetary policy decisions

09/01/2014
Statement of the Eurosystem on SEPA Migration End Date

09/01/2014
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of an ECB Executive Board member

01/01/2014
Adjustments to the ECB’s capital subscription key and the contribution paid by Latvijas Banka

01/01/2014
Latvia joins the euro area

19/12/2013
New Euro Retail Payments Board will reinforce market governance

16/12/2013
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the tenth review mission to Portugal
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16/12/2013
Danièle Nouy appointed as Chair of the Supervisory Board

16/12/2013
Statement by the EC and the ECB following the conclusion of the fifth review of the financial assistance programme for Spain
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16/12/2013
ECB launches online competition related to new €10 banknote

12/12/2013
EU, ECB and National Bank of Serbia complete extensive cooperation programme

05/12/2013
Monetary policy decisions

04/12/2013
ECB conference reaffirms value of international central bank cooperation

27/11/2013
New Counsellor to the President and Co-ordinator of the Counsel to the Executive Board

27/11/2013
Financial Stability Review suggests alleviation of financial market tensions, challenges remain

26/11/2013
Eurosystem will introduce new €10 banknote in 2014 with support from partnership programme

22/11/2013
ECB suspends early repayments of the three-year 
LTROs during the year-end period

22/11/2013
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-June 2013

21/11/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF 
on the review mission to Greece

20/11/2013
ECB nominates candidate for chair of the SSM Supervisory Board

20/11/2013
ECB launches public consultation on Recommendations for the security of mobile payments

15/11/2013
Closing of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB – Latvia 2013
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14/11/2013
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – April to September 2013

09/11/2013
Eurotower to house ECB’s banking supervision staff
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08/11/2013
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 9 July 2014 to 7 July 2015

08/11/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF 
on the final review mission to Ireland

08/11/2013
ECB publishes its opinion on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)

07/11/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Second Review Mission to Cyprus

07/11/2013
Monetary policy decisions

06/11/2013
Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2013

04/11/2013
ECB report details structural changes in the euro area banking sector

01/11/2013
ECB hosts second Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) Regional Meeting for Europe and Central Asia
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31/10/2013
ECB establishes standing swap arrangements with other central banks

30/10/2013
Results of the October 2013 euro area bank lending survey

24/10/2013
ECB publishes second SEPA migration report

23/10/2013
Application of minimum reserve requirements in Latvia

23/10/2013
ECB starts comprehensive assessment in advance of supervisory role

16/10/2013
Opening of the European Cultural Days of the ECB – LATVIA 2013
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14/10/2013
Results of the September 2013 ECB survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

14/10/2013
First release of G20 Consumer Price Index shows slowing annual inflation at 3.0% in August 2013

10/10/2013
ECB and the People’s Bank of China establish a bilateral currency swap agreement

03/10/2013
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the eighth and ninth Review Mission to Portugal
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02/10/2013
Monetary policy decisions

01/10/2013
Launch of the Third Generation €uro Students’ Award

30/09/2013
Statement by the EC and the ECB following the conclusion of the fourth review of the financial assistance programme for Spain
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29/09/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the review mission to Greece

27/09/2013
ECB seeks candidates for the Chair of the Supervisory Board

27/09/2013
ECB establishes new framework for assessment of securities settlement systems and links

27/09/2013
ECB adopts decisions to follow up on the review of its risk control framework

24/09/2013
ECB appoints Oliver Wyman as Consultant for the Comprehensive Assessment of Supervised Banks

19/09/2013
ECB implements loan-level reporting requirements for asset-backed securities backed by credit card receivables

17/09/2013
European Cultural Days of the ECB – Latvia 2013

16 October to 15 November 2013

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16/09/2013
ECB extends the swap facility with the Bank of England

12/09/2013
The ECB is re-awarded EMAS registration

12/09/2013
ECB welcomes European Parliament vote to create single supervisory mechanism

10/09/2013
Payment statistics for 2012

09/09/2013
ECB modifies loan-level reporting requirements for some asset-backed securities

05/09/2013
Monetary policy decisions

29/08/2013
ECB aims to double share of women in high-ranking positions

01/08/2013
ECB welcomes the Cypriot authorities’ decision to conclude the resolution of the country’s major bank

01/08/2013
Monetary policy decisions

31/07/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the First Review Mission to Cyprus

24/07/2013
Results of the July 2013 euro area bank lending survey

19/07/2013
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting


18/07/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Eleventh Review of the mission to Ireland

18/07/2013
ECB further reviews its risk control framework allowing for a new treatment of asset-backed securities

16/07/2013
ECB report shows fall in card fraud

15/07/2013
ECB publishes study comparing collateral eligibility requirements

12/07/2013
Results of the June 2013 ECB survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets

10/07/2013
Eurosystem and National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia complete EU-funded cooperation programme

09/07/2013
Communique of the European Central Bank and Latvijas Banka
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08/07/2013
ECB publishes structural financial indicators for 2012

08/07/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the review mission to Greece
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05/07/2013
ECB announces change in the eligibility of marketable debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Republic of Cyprus

04/07/2013
Monetary policy decisions

03/07/2013
President of the Republic of Cyprus, HE Nicos Anastasiades, visits the ECB
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02/07/2013
Review of the international role of the euro

01/07/2013
Adjustments to the ECB’s capital subscription key due to EU enlargement

01/07/2013
Croatia joins the European Union

28/06/2013
Eligibility of marketable debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Republic of Cyprus

28/06/2013
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for 2012

10/06/2013
ECB publishes the indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations in 2014 and 2015

10/06/2013
ECB publishes the indicative calendars for the reserve maintenance periods in 2014 and 2015

07/06/2013
ECB consults on draft regulation on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems

06/06/2013
Monetary policy decisions

05/06/2013
ECB publishes its Convergence Report 2013 assessing the economic and legal convergence of Latvia

03/06/2013
Statement by the EC and the ECB following the conclusion of the third review of the financial assistance programme for Spain

31/05/2013
ECB welcomes the introduction of separate Eonia and Euribor panels and encourages banks’ participation

29/05/2013
Financial Stability Review May 2013

29/05/2013
ECB will remain operational during demonstrations planned in Frankfurt

24/05/2013
TARGET 2012 Annual Report shows increase in volume and value of payments processed

17/05/2013
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB in 2014 and 2015

09/05/2013
Statement by EC, ECB and IMF on the tenth review mission to Ireland

02/05/2013
ECB announces change in eligibility of marketable debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Cypriot government

02/05/2013
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 10 July 2013 to 8 July 2014

02/05/2013
Eurosystem introduces Europa Series €5 banknote

02/05/2013
Monetary policy decisions

30/04/2013
New ECB survey on credit terms and conditions in 
euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets

30/04/2013
Europa series €5 banknote to be issued as of 2 May 2013

26/04/2013
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – October 2012 to March 2013

25/04/2013
Signs of improved financial market integration in second half of 2012

24/04/2013
Results of the April 2013 euro area bank lending survey

23/04/2013
Joint OeNB-ECB conference discusses the preparations for the launch of the new Europa series of euro banknotes
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18/04/2013
Statement by the EC, the ECB, and the IMF on staff visit to Portugal
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17/04/2013
Launch of new educational game

15/04/2013
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the conclusion of the review mission to Greece

09/04/2013
Results of the Eurosystem’s first Household Finance and Consumption Survey

09/04/2013
Launch of the “Statistics Paper Series”

08/04/2013
ECB publishes survey on correspondent banking in euro 


04/04/2013
Monetary policy decisions

25/03/2013
ECB’s reaction to the agreement on the Cypriot macroeconomic adjustment programme

22/03/2013
ECB announces changes to the use as collateral of certain uncovered government-guaranteed bank bonds

21/03/2013
ECB publishes first SEPA Migration Report and warns against risks of late migration

21/03/2013
Governing Council decision on Emergency Liquidity Assistance requested by the Central Bank of Cyprus

15/03/2013
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the seventh review mission to Portugal
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07/03/2013
Monetary policy decisions

21/02/2013
Details on securities holdings acquired under the Securities Markets Programme

21/02/2013
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2012

15/02/2013
Eurosystem and Bank of Russia hold their high-level seminar

08/02/2013
ECB welcomes the European Commission’s intention to regulate systemically important reference rates

07/02/2013
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on the review mission to Ireland

07/02/2013
Monetary policy decisions

04/02/2013
Statement by the EC and the ECB following the conclusion of the second review of the financial assistance programme for Spain
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31/01/2013
ECB releases final Recommendations for the security of internet payments and starts public consultation on payment account access services

31/01/2013
ECB extends an EU-funded assistance programme with the National Bank of Serbia

30/01/2013
Results of the January 2013 euro area bank lending survey

22/01/2013
ECB presents EU-funded cooperation programme with the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia

21/01/2013
Continued decline in 2012 in the number of monetary financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU

10/01/2013
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

10/01/2013
Eurosystem unveils the Europa series €5 banknote

10/01/2013
Monetary policy decisions

19/12/2012
ECB announces change in eligibility of debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Greek government

18/12/2012
Distribution of responsibilities among the Members of the Executive Board of the ECB

17/12/2012
ECB publishes the Euro money market study 2012

14/12/2012
Financial Stability Review 
December 2012

13/12/2012
ECB President Mario Draghi welcomes the agreement on the SSM

13/12/2012
ECB extends the existing swap arrangements with other central banks

12/12/2012
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-June 2012

08/12/2012
Eurosystem and Latin American central banks hold sixth high-level seminar


06/12/2012
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 16 January to 9 July 2013

06/12/2012
Monetary policy decisions

29/11/2012
Oversight expectations for links between retail payment systems

28/11/2012
BIS, ECB and IMF publish third part of “Handbook on Securities Statistics”

28/11/2012
ECB publishes amendments of the General Documentation

27/11/2012
ECB announces rescheduling of loan-level data reporting requirements

19/11/2012
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the Sixth Review Mission to Portugal
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15/11/2012
Closing of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB– France 2012
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08/11/2012
Eurosystem to introduce second series of euro banknotes – the “Europa” series

08/11/2012
Monetary policy decisions

07/11/2012
Launch of the second Generation €uro Students’ Award

02/11/2012
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – April to September 2012

31/10/2012
Ending of covered bond purchase programme 2 (CBPP2)

31/10/2012
Results of the October 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area

30/10/2012
ECB and Bank of Russia sign a Memorandum of Understanding

30/10/2012
Macro-prudential Research Network reviews findings after two years’ work

30/10/2012
ECB publishes structural financial indicators for 2011

26/10/2012
Statement by the EC and the ECB following the conclusion of the first review of the financial assistance programme for Spain

25/10/2012
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the Review Mission to Ireland

19/10/2012
New Director General Communications and Language Services

17/10/2012
Opening of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS OF THE ECB – France 2012

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08/10/2012
ECB publishes the 2012 Structural Issues Report on “Euro area labour markets and the crisis”

04/10/2012
Monetary policy decisions

01/10/2012
New ECB report examines the costs of making payments in the European Union

28/09/2012
ECB welcomes announcement by Spanish authorities on bottom-up stress test
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28/09/2012
ECB publishes the results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2012

20/09/2012
ECB celebrates topping out of its new premises

12/09/2012
EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB – France 2012

17 October to 14 November

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12/09/2012
ECB extends the swap facility agreement 
with the Bank of England

12/09/2012
ECB welcomes Commission’s proposal for a single supervisory mechanism

11/09/2012
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the fifth review mission to Portugal

11/09/2012
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic visits the ECB
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10/09/2012
Payment Statistics for 2011

06/09/2012
Measures to preserve collateral availability

06/09/2012
Technical features of Outright Monetary Transactions

06/09/2012
Monetary policy decisions

23/08/2012
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for 2011

20/08/2012
ECB Charity Initiative

03/08/2012
ECB publishes book entitled “Central bank statistics as a servant of two separate mandates – price stability and mitigation of systemic risk”

03/08/2012
ECB’s environmental policy is re-awarded EMAS certification

02/08/2012
Monetary policy decisions

25/07/2012
First ECB report on card fraud shows chips have increased the security of physical transactions

25/07/2012
Results of the July 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area

20/07/2012
Collateral eligibility of bonds issued or guaranteed by the Greek government

19/07/2012
ECB Governing Council appoints members of the new T2S Board

19/07/2012
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of an ECB Executive Board member

16/07/2012
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

12/07/2012
Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks hold their seventh high-level seminar


12/07/2012
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the Review Mission to Ireland

11/07/2012
Review of the international role of the euro

06/07/2012
ECB announces implementation of loan-level data reporting requirements for asset-backed securities


05/07/2012
Monetary policy decisions

04/07/2012
The ECB and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey sign a Memorandum of Understanding

03/07/2012
Fourteen additional Central Securities Depositories sign the T2S Framework Agreement


22/06/2012
ECB takes further measures to increase collateral availability for counterparties

20/06/2012
Generation €uro Award Ceremony

15/06/2012
Eurosystem collateral management services and systems

12/06/2012
Financial Stability Review June 2012

06/06/2012
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 11 July to 15 January 2013

06/06/2012
Monetary policy decisions

04/06/2012
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2010 and the ECB’s reply

04/06/2012
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on the Fourth Review Mission to Portugal

31/05/2012
ECB publishes TARGET Annual Report 2011: the system functioned smoothly and registered a higher turnover

30/05/2012
ECB Publishes its Convergence Report 2012

16/05/2012
ECB operations during demonstrations planned in Frankfurt

08/05/2012
Eurosystem signs T2S Framework Agreement with first Central Securities Depositories

03/05/2012
Monetary policy decisions

27/04/2012
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – October 2011 to March 2012

26/04/2012
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on the review mission to Ireland

26/04/2012
Setback for financial integration in 2011

25/04/2012
Results of the April 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area

20/04/2012
Consultation announcement: Recommendations for the security of internet payments

19/04/2012
ECB publishes the Eurosystem Oversight Report 2011

05/04/2012
Assessment of a new direct link between securities settlement systems in the euro area

04/04/2012
Monetary policy decisions

23/03/2012
Consultation announcement - Oversight expectations for links between retail payment systems

23/03/2012
Updated classification system between the reporting frameworks of the ECB and the EBA

15/03/2012
Completion of banking supervision programme with the Central Bank of Egypt

14/03/2012
International agencies release data on G20 GDP:
G20 GDP growth slows to +0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2011


08/03/2012
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2011

08/03/2012
Eligibility of bonds issued or guaranteed by the Greek government in Eurosystem credit operations

08/03/2012
Monetary policy decisions

28/02/2012
Statement by the European Commission, ECB, and IMF on the third review mission to Portugal

28/02/2012
Eligibility of Greek bonds used as collateral in Eurosystem monetary policy operations

09/02/2012
ECB’s Governing Council approves eligibility criteria for additional credit claims

09/02/2012
Monetary policy decisions

01/02/2012
Results of the January 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area

19/01/2012
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on the review mission to Ireland

19/01/2012
Eurosystem and GCC central banks and monetary agencies hold third high-level seminar

16/01/2012
ECB and partner institutions successfully complete programme for the western Balkans and Turkey

16/01/2012
The number of monetary financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU decreased further in 2011

16/01/2012
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

12/01/2012
Monetary policy decisions

03/01/2012
Distribution of responsibilities among the members of the Executive Board of the ECB

22/12/2011
The ECB expresses concern about the independence of the central bank of Hungary
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19/12/2011
Financial stability review – December 2011

16/12/2011
ECB announces two one-day liquidity-providing fine-tuning operations

16/12/2011
ECB publishes consolidated banking data for 2011

08/12/2011
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of a new ECB Executive Board member

08/12/2011
ECB announces measures to support bank lending and money market activity

08/12/2011
Monetary policy decisions

07/12/2011
ECB publishes structural financial indicators for 2010

02/12/2011
2nd International Conference on the Protection of the Euro against counterfeiting

01/12/2011
Assessment of new direct and relayed links between securities settlement systems in the euro area

01/12/2011
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the euro area – April to September 2011

30/11/2011
Coordinated central bank action 
to address pressures in global money markets

22/11/2011
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic visits the ECB
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18/11/2011
Closing of the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Italy 2011
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16/11/2011
Statement by the EC, ECB and IMF on the second review mission to Portugal

14/11/2011
EURO1 Complies with CPSS Core Principles

10/11/2011
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi leaves the ECB for Harvard University

03/11/2011
ECB announces details of its new covered bond purchase programme (CBPP2)

03/11/2011
Monetary policy decisions

01/11/2011
Change of presidency of the European Central Bank

21/10/2011
Generation €uro Students’ award 
Competition for secondary school students

20/10/2011
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the review mission to Ireland

19/10/2011
Opening of the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Italy 2011
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11/10/2011
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and IMF on the Fifth Review Mission to Greece

06/10/2011
ECB announces details of refinancing operations from October 2011 to 10 July 2012

06/10/2011
ECB announces new covered bond purchase programme

06/10/2011
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of a new ECB Executive Board member

06/10/2011
Results of the October 2011 bank lending survey for the euro area

06/10/2011
Monetary policy decisions

04/10/2011
Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Italy 2011
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04/10/2011
ECB publishes the 2011 Structural Issues Report on “Structural features of distributive trades and their impact on prices in the euro area”

30/09/2011
Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2011

30/09/2011
The ECB and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully complete their cooperation programme

21/09/2011
ECB publishes an updated version of the General Documentation

15/09/2011
ECB announces additional US dollar liquidity-providing operations over year-end

12/09/2011
Payment Statistics for 2010


09/09/2011
Jürgen Stark resigns from his position

08/09/2011
Monetary policy decisions

06/09/2011
Statement of the Governing Council of the ECB on the decision of the Swiss National Bank

02/09/2011
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and IMF on the Fifth Review Mission to Greece

25/08/2011
Prolongation of swap facility agreement with the Bank of England

12/08/2011
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the first review mission to Portugal, 
12 August 2011

07/08/2011
Statement by the President of the ECB

04/08/2011
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 12 October 2011 to 17 January 2012

04/08/2011
Monetary policy decisions

28/07/2011
Results of the July 2011 bank lending survey for the euro area

22/07/2011
ECB’s Governing Council sets deadline for finalisation of the T2S Framework Agreement with CSDs

22/07/2011
Review of the international role of the euro

18/07/2011
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

15/07/2011
ECB welcomes the publication of the EU-wide stress test

14/07/2011
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the review mission to Ireland

07/07/2011
ECB announces change in eligibility of debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Portuguese government

07/07/2011
Monetary policy decisions

29/06/2011
Prolongation of US dollar liquidity-providing operations

28/06/2011
6th High-level Seminar of Central Banks in the East Asia-Pacific Region and the Eurosystem

27/06/2011
ECB launches new monetary and financial statistics

15/06/2011
Financial Stability Review June 2011


09/06/2011
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement in the period from 13 July to 11 October 2011

09/06/2011
ECB’s Governing Council adopts an opinion on the appointment of a new President

09/06/2011
Monetary policy decisions

03/06/2011
Statement by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF on the Fourth Review Mission to Greece

03/06/2011
ECB publishes the proceedings of the Sixth ECB Central Banking Conference

20/05/2011
ECB publishes the indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations in 2012 and 2013

20/05/2011
ECB publishes the indicative calendars for the reserve maintenance periods in 2012 and 2013

19/05/2011
ECB publishes TARGET Annual Report 2010: the system functioned smoothly and registered a higher turnover


13/05/2011
ECB and OeNB call for a faster implementation of the Single Euro Payments Area

06/05/2011
ECB publishes the third edition of the book "The Monetary Policy of the ECB"

05/05/2011
ECB assesses the Portuguese economic and financial adjustment programme


05/05/2011
Monetary policy decisions

02/05/2011
European Central Bank and European Commission hold joint conference to strengthen the foundations of integrated and stable financial markets

02/05/2011
ECB: challenges to financial integration in 2010

29/04/2011
ECB introduces loan-by-loan information requirements for CMBSs and SME transactions

27/04/2011
Report on the results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – September 2010 to February 2011


27/04/2011
Results of the April 2011 bank lending survey for the euro area

20/04/2011
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB in 2012 and 2013


15/04/2011
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the first quarterly review mission to Ireland

07/04/2011
Monetary policy decisions

31/03/2011
ECB announces the suspension of the rating threshold for debt instruments of the Irish government

31/03/2011
EC, ECB and IMF welcome the Irish authorities’ banking system announcements

31/03/2011
ECB welcomes the Irish authorities’ decision to strengthen Irish banks

30/03/2011
Eurosystem and Bank of Russia conclude cooperation programme on banking supervision and internal audit

18/03/2011
ECB announces EU-funded cooperation programme with the National Bank of Serbia

18/03/2011
Statement of G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

16/03/2011
ECB encourages comments on CPSS-IOSCO consultation on principles for financial market infrastructures

14/03/2011
ECB charity initiative

11/03/2011
Joint press statement by the 
European Commission and the European Central Bank on the 
Measures announced by the Portuguese government

10/03/2011
ECB publishes the findings of an independent external evaluation of the activities of its Directorate General Research

03/03/2011
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of a new ECB Executive Board member

03/03/2011
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement from 13 April to 12 July 2011

03/03/2011
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2010

03/03/2011
Monetary policy decisions

17/02/2011
ECB awards contract to new construction company for remaining structural works for the double office tower
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12/02/2011
Statement by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund on Greece’s Economic Programme
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11/02/2011
Statement by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund on the Third Review Mission to Greece
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08/02/2011
ECB and construction company agree on execution of structural works
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04/02/2011
ECB publishes an updated version of the General Documentation


04/02/2011
Eurosystem and Bank of Russia hold sixth high-level seminar


03/02/2011
Monetary policy decisions

02/02/2011
ECB publishes book entitled “Central bank statistics: what did the financial crisis change?”

29/01/2011
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2009 and the ECB’s reply

27/01/2011
Results of the January 2011 bank lending survey for the euro area

17/01/2011
Eesti Pank joins the central bank gold agreement

17/01/2011
biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

14/01/2011
MFI statistics 2011: the number of monetary financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU decreases further

13/01/2011
Monetary policy decisions

03/01/2011
Euro banknotes and coins have been successfully introduced in Estonia
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01/01/2011
Estonia joins the euro area

21/12/2010
Prolongation of US dollar liquidity-providing operations

21/12/2010
Publication of the Euro Money Market Study 2010

19/12/2010
Message from President Jean-Claude Trichet on behalf of the European Central Bank
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17/12/2010
ECB signs swap facility agreement with the 
Bank of England

16/12/2010
European Systemic Risk Board established

16/12/2010
ECB increases its capital

16/12/2010
ECB refines the framework for the implementation of monetary policy in the euro area

16/12/2010
ECB introduces ABS loan-by-loan information requirements in the Eurosystem collateral framework

10/12/2010
Fifth High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks
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09/12/2010
Financial Stability Review December 2010

08/12/2010
European Central Bank and Eurosystem launch educational games on monetary policy and inflation

03/12/2010
Changes to the list of euro foreign exchange reference rates: Israeli shekel added, Estonian kroon removed

02/12/2010
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement from 19 January to 12 April 2011

02/12/2010
Monetary policy decisions

28/11/2010
ECB assesses the Irish economic and financial adjustment programme

23/11/2010
Statement by the EC, ECB and IMF on the Second Review Mission to Greece

21/11/2010
ECB Governing Council welcomes the request of the Irish Government for financial assistance

19/11/2010
ECB Governing Council decides on TARGET2-Securities pricing policy

16/11/2010
Closing of the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Netherlands 2010
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04/11/2010
Monetary policy decisions

28/10/2010
Eurosystem and mediterranean central banks meet for the Sixth Euro-Mediterranean Seminar

28/10/2010
Results of the october 2010 bank lending survey for the euro area

27/10/2010
Transitional provisions for the application of minimum reserve requirements in Estonia

22/10/2010
ECB publishes 7th SEPA Progress Report: Migration continues but requires realistic but ambitious regulatory end dates

22/10/2010
Results of the survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – March to September 2010

20/10/2010
Opening of the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Netherlands 2010
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20/10/2010
ECB marks World Statistics Day

14/10/2010
Book publication: “Enhancing monetary analysis”

13/10/2010
Eurosystem publishes oversight frameworks for credit transfer and direct debit schemes

09/10/2010
New provisions for the framework for implementation of monetary policy in the euro area

07/10/2010
Monetary policy decisions

04/10/2010
Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Netherlands 2010
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23/09/2010
Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2010

16/09/2010
Governing Council appoints members to the T2S Programme Board

13/09/2010
Statistics on payments – Data for 2009

08/09/2010
ECB report shows high standards for business continuity arrangements of payment systems

07/09/2010
BIS, ECB and IMF publish second part of “Handbook on Securities Statistics”

06/09/2010
ECB publishes book on the payment system and the role of the Eurosystem in this field

02/09/2010
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement from 17 October 2010 to 18 January 2011

02/09/2010
Monetary policy decisions

05/08/2010
Statement by the EC, ECB and IMF on the first review mission to Greece

05/08/2010
Monetary policy decisions

28/07/2010
ECB reviews risk control measures in its collateral framework

28/07/2010
Results of the July 2010 bank lending survey for the euro area

23/07/2010
Joint press release EC, ECB and CEBS: Publication of the results of the EU-wide stress-testing exercise

23/07/2010
ECB welcomes the publication of the EU-wide stress-testing exercise

19/07/2010
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

14/07/2010
Review of the international role of the euro

13/07/2010
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and Eesti Pank
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08/07/2010
Monetary policy decisions

30/06/2010
Eurosystem and GCC central banks and monetary agencies hold second high-level seminar

30/06/2010
Covered bond purchase programme completed

20/06/2010
Joint press release by the ECB and the Eurogroup on reforms of the exchange rate regime of the Renminbi

18/06/2010
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2008 and the ECB’s reply

17/06/2010
Statement by the EC, ECB, and IMF on the Interim Review Mission to Greece

10/06/2010
ECB announces details of longer-term refinancing operations in the third quarter of 2010

10/06/2010
Monetary policy decisions

07/06/2010
ECB publishes the 2010 Structural Issues Report on energy markets and the euro area macroeconomy

07/06/2010
SEPA Council meets for the first time, discusses migration end dates and future of SEPA for cards

02/06/2010
Distribution of responsibilities among the members of the Executive Board of the ECB

31/05/2010
Financial Stability Review June 2010

19/05/2010
ECB lays the foundation stone for its new premises
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18/05/2010
ECB publishes TARGET Annual Report 2009: the system has functioned smoothly with high availability levels

12/05/2010
ECB publishes its Convergence Report 2010

10/05/2010
ECB announces details regarding the reactivation of the US dollar liquidity-providing operations

10/05/2010
Reactivation of US dollar liquidity providing operations

10/05/2010
ECB decides on measures to address severe tensions in financial markets

06/05/2010
Monetary policy decisions

03/05/2010
ECB announces change in eligibility of debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Greek government

02/05/2010
ECB assesses the Greek economic and financial adjustment programme

28/04/2010
The Czech Republic and Romania sign the agreement on the exchange of information among credit registers

28/04/2010
Results of the April 2010 bank lending survey for the euro area

23/04/2010
Eurosystem launches preparatory work on the establishment of loan-level information requirements for ABSs in its collateral framework

19/04/2010
ECB publishes report on the lessons learned from the financial crisis with regard to the functioning of European financial market infrastructures

12/04/2010
ECB and European Commission hold joint conference on “Financial integration and stability: the legacy of the crisis”

12/04/2010
ECB signals a gradual recovery of the European financial integration process

10/04/2010
Statement by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB
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08/04/2010
ECB introduces graduated valuation haircuts 
for lower-rated assets in its collateral framework 
as of 1 January 2011

08/04/2010
Monetary policy decisions

15/03/2010
ECB announces EU-funded cooperation programme with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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08/03/2010
ECB’s Executive Board appoints Director General Statistics

04/03/2010
Opinion of the ECB’s Governing Council on the appointment of the Vice-President of the ECB

04/03/2010
ECB announces details of refinancing operations with settlement up to 12 October 2010

04/03/2010
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2009

04/03/2010
Monetary policy decisions

03/03/2010
Statement by the ECB’s Governing Council on the additional measures of the Greek government

17/02/2010
New classification system between the reporting frameworks of the ECB and CEBS


16/02/2010
Results of the ECB’s survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area – second half of 2009

15/02/2010
ECB’s Executive Board creates Directorate General Financial Stability and appoints its Director General

10/02/2010
5th High-level Seminar of Central Banks in the East Asia-Pacific Region and the Euro Area

09/02/2010
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2007 and the ECB’s reply

05/02/2010
ECB publishes the proceedings of the Fifth ECB Central Banking Conference

04/02/2010
Monetary policy decisions

03/02/2010
President of the Republic of Slovenia visits the ECB
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29/01/2010
Results of the January 2010 bank lending survey for the euro area

27/01/2010
ECB and other central banks decide to discontinue the temporary swap lines with the Federal Reserve

20/01/2010
MFI statistics 2010: number of financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU decreases

19/01/2010
ECB and the European Commission launch assistance programme on supervision for EU candidates

19/01/2010
ECB launches a euro area real-time statistical database

18/01/2010
ECB discontinues the Swiss franc liquidity-providing operations

14/01/2010
Monetary policy decisions

11/01/2010
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

07/01/2010
Summary of a workshop on recent advances in modelling systemic risk using network analysis

23/12/2009
ECB launches consultation on loan-by-loan information for asset-backed securities

18/12/2009
Financial Stability Review December 2009

17/12/2009
ECB decides to start construction works for its new premises in spring 2010

15/12/2009
Effective exchange rates of the euro and harmonised competitiveness indicators for euro area countries updated

03/12/2009
ECB announces details of refinancing operations up to 7 April 2010

03/12/2009
Monetary policy decisions

01/12/2009
ECB publishes glossary of payment, clearing and settlement terms

20/11/2009
ECB amends rating requirements for asset-backed securities in Eurosystem credit operations

12/11/2009
Publication of the Eurosystem Oversight Report

11/11/2009
Changes in ECB's business area heads

10/11/2009
The Cultural Days of the European Central Bank 2009 come to an end
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05/11/2009
Monetary policy decisions

28/10/2009
Results of the October 2009 Bank lending survey for the euro area

21/10/2009
Cultural Days of the European Central Bank 2009: Romania
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08/10/2009
Monetary policy decisions

24/09/2009
ECB and other central banks decide to continue conducting US dollar liquidity-providing operations

24/09/2009
ECB and Swiss National Bank extend their Swiss franc liquidity-providing operations

24/09/2009
ECB publishes the Euro Money Market Survey 2009

21/09/2009
ECB publishes the results of a survey on the access to finance of small and medium-sized enterprises

11/09/2009
Statistics on payments and securities trading, clearing and settlement – data for 2008

10/09/2009
ECB Cultural Days: Romania 2009 – a rich variety of cultures and genres
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04/09/2009
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2006 and the ECB’s reply

03/09/2009
Monetary policy decisions

14/08/2009
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems and their links

10/08/2009
Eurosystem consults on draft oversight frameworks for credit transfer and direct debit schemes

07/08/2009
Joint Statement on Gold

06/08/2009
Monetary policy decisions

29/07/2009
Results of the July 2009 Bank lending survey for the euro area

22/07/2009
New relayed link and underlying direct link approved

16/07/2009
Eurosystem signs Memorandum of Understanding on T2S with 27 central securities depositories

13/07/2009
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

08/07/2009
Review of the international role of the euro

02/07/2009
Monetary policy decisions

25/06/2009
ECB and Swiss National Bank extend their Swiss franc liquidity-providing operations

25/06/2009
ECB and other central banks extend their swap lines with Federal Reserve

23/06/2009
ESCB and CESR issue recommendations to increase safety and soundness of the post-trading infrastructure

15/06/2009
Financial Stability Review June 2009

10/06/2009
ECB activates the swap line with Sveriges Riksbank

05/06/2009
ECB receives ISO/IEC 20000 certification and wins IT Service Management Forum “Project of the Year” award
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04/06/2009
Purchase programme for covered bonds

04/06/2009
Monetary policy decisions

03/06/2009
ECB functions performed without interruption during strike

03/06/2009
ECB functions will be performed without interruption during strike

29/05/2009
Publication of the indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations in 2010 and 2011

29/05/2009
Publication of the indicative calendars for the reserve maintenance periods in 2010 and 2011

15/05/2009
Publication of the TARGET2 Oversight Assessment Report

15/05/2009
Publication of the TARGET Annual Report 2008

13/05/2009
BIS, ECB and IMF publish “Handbook on Securities Statistics”

08/05/2009
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2010 and 2011

07/05/2009
Longer-term refinancing operations

07/05/2009
EIB becomes an eligible counterparty in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations

07/05/2009
Monetary policy decisions

29/04/2009
Results of the April 2009 bank lending survey for the euro area

23/04/2009
Governing Council appoints members of the T2S Programme Board

21/04/2009
Inter-agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics launches G-20 statistical website

06/04/2009
Central banks announce expanded swap arrangements

06/04/2009
ECB signals risk of slowdown in the European financial integration process

02/04/2009
Governing Council sets up T2S Programme Board

02/04/2009
Monetary policy decisions

01/04/2009
The ECB’s gold sales

31/03/2009
ESCB and CESR consult on draft recommendations for central counterparties as amended for OTC derivatives

31/03/2009
ECB publishes quality reports on euro area monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics

27/03/2009
The expectations of the Eurosystem as regards the future of SEPA

24/03/2009
Commission and ECB provide further clarification to ensure timely launch of SEPA direct debit scheme

24/03/2009
Fourth High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks

held in Mexico City on 23 March 2009

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19/03/2009
US dollar liquidity-providing operations of the Eurosystem in the second quarter of 2009

12/03/2009
V Joint High-Level Eurosystem – Bank of Russia Seminar

05/03/2009
Tender procedures as of 8 April 2009

05/03/2009
Eurosystem Monetary Policy Operations in 2008

05/03/2009
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2008

05/03/2009
Monetary policy decisions

20/02/2009
Publication of the Eurosystem oversight policy framework

06/02/2009
Results of the January 2009 bank lending survey for the euro area

05/02/2009
Monetary policy decisions

03/02/2009
Extension of temporary currency arrangements

02/02/2009
Publication of the Euro Money Market Study 2008

20/01/2009
Adjustment of risk control measures for newly issued asset-backed securities and for uncovered bank bonds

16/01/2009
Dual circulation of Slovak koruna and euro comes to an end in Slovakia
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16/01/2009
Swiss National Bank and European Central Bank cooperation to provide swiss franc liquidity

15/01/2009
Monetary policy decisions

13/01/2009
Number of Monetary Financial Institutions in the Euro area and the European Union - 2009

12/01/2009
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

02/01/2009
Euro banknotes and coins successfully introduced in Slovakia
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01/01/2009
Adjustments to the ECB’s capital subscription key and the contribution paid by Slovakia

01/01/2009
Slovakia joins the euro area

19/12/2008
Update of the list of eligible securities settlement systems in the euro area

19/12/2008
US dollar liquidity-providing operations of the Eurosystem in the first quarter of 2009

18/12/2008
Tender procedures and the standing facilities corridor as of 21 January 2009

18/12/2008
ECB Governing Council decides to continue its current voting regime

15/12/2008
Financial Stability Review December 2008: Risks and vulnerabilities in financial system persist

05/12/2008
Changes to the list of euro foreign exchange reference rates: Indian rupee added, Slovak koruna removed

04/12/2008
Monetary policy decisions

01/12/2008
ECB decides on the way forward for its new premises

27/11/2008
Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks meet for the fifth Euro-Mediterranean seminar

26/11/2008
ECB Annual Photography Award 2008 - Europe

26/11/2008
Changes to the temporary expansion of the eligibility of collateral

26/11/2008
New banking supervision programme with the Central Bank of Egypt

26/11/2008
Statistics on payments and securities trading, clearing and settlement– data for 2007 –

24/11/2008
SEPA: Significant progress made but concerns need to be addressed without delay (Sixth SEPA progress report)

21/11/2008
Narodowy Bank Polski and European Central Bank cooperation to provide euro liquidity

17/11/2008
Further technical specifications for the temporary expansion of the collateral framework

12/11/2008
Further technical specifications for the temporary expansion of the collateral framework

12/11/2008
Prime Minister of Poland visits the ECB
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07/11/2008
Results of the October 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area

07/11/2008
ECB publishes a book entitled “A strategic vision for statistics: challenges for the next 10 years”

06/11/2008
Monetary policy decisions

03/11/2008
ECB hosts meeting on establishing central counterparties for credit default swaps

29/10/2008
Start of the next phase of the Eurosystem cooperation programme with the Bank of Russia

29/10/2008
Transitional provisions for the application of minimum reserves by the ECB following the introduction of the euro in Slovakia
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27/10/2008
Statement by G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors

27/10/2008
Danmarks Nationalbank and European Central Bank cooperation to provide euro liquidity

23/10/2008
Changes to the framework for implementation of monetary policy in the euro area

23/10/2008
ESCB and CESR consult on recommendations for securities clearing and settlement systems and central counterparties in the European Union

22/10/2008
Evolution of the custody arrangement for international debt securities and their eligibility in Eurosystem credit operations

17/10/2008
Technical specifications for the temporary expansion of the collateral framework

17/10/2008
Relayed link between Clearstream Banking Frankfurt via Clearstream Banking Luxembourg to Euroclear France approved

17/10/2008
Prime Minister Karamanlis of the Hellenic Republic visits the ECB
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16/10/2008
Magyar Nemzeti Bank and European Central Bank cooperation to support the MNB’s Euro Liquidity Providing Instruments

15/10/2008
Swiss National Bank and European Central Bank cooperation to provide Swiss franc liquidity

15/10/2008
Measures to further expand the collateral framework and enhance the provision of liquidity

13/10/2008
Publication of the report on EU banking structures

13/10/2008
Measures designed to address elevated pressures in the short-term US dollar funding markets

08/10/2008
Changes in tender procedure and in the standing facilities corridor

08/10/2008
Change in senior management at the European Central Bank

08/10/2008
Monetary policy decisions

07/10/2008
Six-Month longer-term refinancing operation: increase in allotment amount

07/10/2008
US dollar liquidity-providing operations

03/10/2008
Counterparties for fine-tuning operations

02/10/2008
Monetary policy decisions

30/09/2008
Announcement of a consultation: glossary of terms related to payment, clearing and settlement systems

29/09/2008
Measures designed to address elevated pressures in the short-term us dollar funding markets

29/09/2008
Conduct of a special term refinancing operation

26/09/2008
Publication of the Euro Money Market Survey 2008

26/09/2008
Measures designed to address elevated pressures in the short-term US dollar funding markets

22/09/2008
Statement by G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors on global financial market turmoil

18/09/2008
Measures designed to address elevated pressures in the short-term US dollar funding markets

05/09/2008
ZHOU Xiaochuan, Governor of the People’s Bank of China visits the European Central Bank

04/09/2008
Continuation of supplementary longer-term refinancing operations

04/09/2008
Biennial review of the risk control measures in Eurosystem credit operations

04/09/2008
Payments: Commission and ECB support launch of pan-European SEPA Direct Debit; provide guidance to industry

04/09/2008
Monetary policy decisions

01/09/2008
ECB/ESCB co-operation with the National Bank of Serbia

08/08/2008
Results of the July 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area

07/08/2008
Monetary policy decisions

31/07/2008
Renewal of the supplementary three-month longer-term refinancing operations of 21 May and 11 June 2008

30/07/2008
Measures to enhance the US dollar term auction facility

17/07/2008
Launch of the CCBM2 project

17/07/2008
Launch of the TARGET2-Securities project

11/07/2008
Publication of the ECB Payment Systems and Market Infrastructure Oversight Report 2007

10/07/2008
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

09/07/2008
Review of the international role of the euro

08/07/2008
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and Národná banka Slovenska
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03/07/2008
Monetary policy decisions

01/07/2008
The ECB’s gold sales

27/06/2008
4th High-level Seminar of Central Banks in the East Asia-Pacific Region and the Euro Area

25/06/2008
The European Central Bank formally closes the public tender for a general contractor to build the new ECB premises

09/06/2008
Publication of the June 2008 ECB Financial Stability Review

05/06/2008
Monetary policy decisions

03/06/2008
Common roots – diversity of voices. Europe Cultural Days come to a close

29/05/2008
Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II

29/05/2008
10th Anniversary of the ECB: Publication of a special edition of the ECB’s Monthly Bulletin

28/05/2008
Joint communiqué on the Slovak koruna

23/05/2008
CSDs invited to join the TARGET2-Securities initiative

23/05/2008
Publication of an indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s tender operations in 2009

23/05/2008
Publication of an indicative calendar showing reserve maintenance periods for 2009

19/05/2008
Final migration group connects to TARGET2

14/05/2008
EU 27 brought to Frankfurt within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the European Central Bank (14 May to 2 June 2008)

Opening Concert by the EuropaChorAkademie, introducing the “European Cantata”

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09/05/2008
TARGET2: Confirmation of go-live date for migration group 3

09/05/2008
Results of the April 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area

08/05/2008
Monetary policy decisions

07/05/2008
Publication of the ECB Convergence Report 2008

02/05/2008
Measures to address liquidity pressures in some funding markets

29/04/2008
Publication of the report on financial integration in Europe – April 2008

28/04/2008
Publication of the TARGET Annual Report 2007

10/04/2008
Monetary policy decisions

28/03/2008
Supplementary six-month longer-term refinancing operations and continuation of the supplementary three-month longer-term refinancing operations

20/03/2008
Eurosystem and Bank of Russia launch cooperation programme in the areas of banking supervision and internal audit

14/03/2008
Eurosystem and GCC central banks and monetary agencies hold high-level seminar

11/03/2008
Specific measures to address liquidity pressures in funding markets

08/03/2008
Visit by the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

06/03/2008
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2007

06/03/2008
Monetary policy decisions

27/02/2008
Visit by the President of Ireland

26/02/2008
Launch of a public consultation on the CCBM2 User Requirements

25/02/2008
Publication of the Proceedings of the Fourth ECB Central Banking Conference

18/02/2008
Second migration group connects to TARGET2

08/02/2008
TARGET2: confirmation of the go-live date for migration group 2

07/02/2008
Renewal of the supplementary longer-term refinancing operations of 23 November 2007 and 12 December 2007

07/02/2008
Monetary policy decisions

04/02/2008
Finalisation of the 2008 euro cash changeover in Cyprus and Malta
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28/01/2008
Joint statement by the European Commission and the European Central Bank welcoming the formal launch of SEPA payment instruments by EU banks

25/01/2008
Central Bank of Cyprus joins the central bank gold agreement

25/01/2008
Central Bank of Malta joins the central bank gold agreement

22/01/2008
Bond Markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union -addendum incorporating 2006 figures

21/01/2008
SEPA goes live - official launch of the single euro payments area

18/01/2008
Results of the January 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area

11/01/2008
Oversight Framework for Card Payment Schemes - Standards

10/01/2008
European Central Bank again offering US dollar liquidity

10/01/2008
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

10/01/2008
Monetary policy decisions

08/01/2008
Development of the euro area monetary financial institutions sector

03/01/2008
The euro cash changeover in Cyprus and Malta
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01/01/2008
Cyprus and Malta join the euro area

28/12/2007
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems in the euro area

21/12/2007
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2005 and the ECB’s reply

18/12/2007
Launch of a public consultation on TARGET2-Securities

12/12/2007
Publication of the December 2007 ECB Financial Stability Review

12/12/2007
Measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets

06/12/2007
Monetary policy decisions

03/12/2007
The ECB’s gold sales

30/11/2007
The Eurosystem’s liquidity management measures related to the year-end 2007

29/11/2007
Additional reference exchange rates for the euro

25/11/2007
Completion of the cooperation programme between the Eurosystem and the Central Bank of Egypt in the area of banking supervision

19/11/2007
TARGET2 successfully launched

19/11/2007
Publication of the Euro Money Market Survey 2007

16/11/2007
Statistics on payments and securities trading, clearing and settlement – data for 2006 –

14/11/2007
Poetry and music in one closing concert of the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank – Greece 2007
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14/11/2007
Report on EU banking sector stability

12/11/2007
Oversight of payment systems: the Eurosystem’s common methodology

09/11/2007
TARGET2: Confirmation of the go-live date for migration group 1

08/11/2007
Renewal of the supplementary longer-term refinancing operation allotted on 23 August 2007 and on 12 September 2007

08/11/2007
Monetary policy decisions

30/10/2007
Amendments to Annex I (General Documentation) and Annex II (Additional Minimum Common Features) to Guideline ECB/2000/7 on monetary policy instruments and procedures

29/10/2007
ECB Annual Photography Award 2007 “Greece Today“
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29/10/2007
Fifth Progress Report on TARGET2

26/10/2007
Progress report on TARGET2-Securities

24/10/2007
Cultural days of the European Central Bank 2007: Greece
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11/10/2007
IV Joint High-Level Eurosystem – Bank of Russia Seminar
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10/10/2007
Information on gold sales during the third year of the Central Bank Gold Agreement

08/10/2007
ECB presents outcome of the detailed planning phase of its new premises
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05/10/2007
Report on EU banking structures

05/10/2007
Results of the October 2007 bank lending survey for the euro area

04/10/2007
Monetary policy decisions

25/09/2007
BIS triennial survey 2007

12/09/2007
Completion of the European Union supported cooperation between the Eurosystem and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Eurosystem today delivered its report under the “Eurosystem needs assessment programme to the benefit of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina”

06/09/2007
Pre-announcement of supplementary longer-term refinancing operation

06/09/2007
Monetary policy decisions

22/08/2007
Supplementary longer-term refinancing operation

14/08/2007
Statement by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank

14/08/2007
Publication of the fourth edition of the “Blue Book”

03/08/2007
Results of the July 2007 bank lending survey for the euro area

02/08/2007
Monetary policy decisions

01/08/2007
Adherence of the central banks of the new Member States, Bulgaria and Romania, to the Memorandum of Understanding on high-level principles of co-operation in crisis management situations and the memorandum of understanding on cooperation between payment systems overseers and banking supervisors

31/07/2007
Assessment of relayed links between securities settlement systems in the euro area

31/07/2007
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems in the euro area

20/07/2007
“SEPA: from concept to reality” (fifth progress report)

11/07/2007
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

10/07/2007
Launch of a public tender for a general contractor to construct the new ECB premises

10/07/2007
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Malta
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10/07/2007
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Cyprus
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10/07/2007
First Release of Daily Euro Area Government Bond Yield Curves

05/07/2007
The European Central Bank adopts an opinion on the opening of an Intergovernmental Conference

05/07/2007
Monetary policy decisions

26/06/2007
Publication of a report on the euro bonds and derivatives markets

25/06/2007
Review of the international role of the euro

22/06/2007
Fourth Progress Report on TARGET2

20/06/2007
Exhibition: Contemporary Art from Latvia
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18/06/2007
New educational material: “FACTS”

15/06/2007
Publication of the June 2007 ECB Financial Stability Review

11/06/2007
Publication of corporate finance in the euro area structural issues report

06/06/2007
Monetary policy decisions

01/06/2007
The ECB’s gold sales

25/05/2007
Amendment to the calendar for the phasing-out of marketable tier two assets eligible as collateral for eurosystem credit operations

25/05/2007
Amendment to the criteria for assets eligible as collateral for eurosystem credit operations

25/05/2007
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s tender operations in 2008

25/05/2007
Publication of the indicative calendar of reserve maintenance periods for 2008

21/05/2007
Bond Markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union - updated addendum incorporating 2005 figures

16/05/2007
First International Conference on the Protection of the Euro against Counterfeiting: The euro is in safe hands

16/05/2007
ECB Convergence Report 2007

14/05/2007
European Union Balance of Payments / International Investment Position statistical methods

14/05/2007
Consultation announcement - Oversight of Payments Infrastructures: Eurosystem common methodology for the assessment of euro systemically and prominently important payment systems against the Core Principles

11/05/2007
Results of the April 2007 bank lending survey for the euro area

10/05/2007
Monetary policy decisions

03/05/2007
Consultation announcement: oversight framework for card payment schemes

26/04/2007
TARGET2-Securities and the CCBM2 – Launch of a Public Consultation

26/04/2007
Visit by the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
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24/04/2007
Payment Services Directive

Joint statement by the European Central Bank and the European Commission welcoming the European Parliament’s adoption of the Payment Services Directive

12/04/2007
Monetary policy decisions

02/04/2007
First publication of Short-Term European Paper (STEP) yield statistics

30/03/2007
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2008 and 2009

28/03/2007
Publication of the report on financial integration in europe – March 2007

28/03/2007
Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks meet for fourth Euro-Mediterranean seminar
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19/03/2007
Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II

16/03/2007
Joint communiqué on the Slovak koruna

08/03/2007
TARGET2-Securities

08/03/2007
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2006

08/03/2007
Monetary policy decisions

23/02/2007
Publication of Short-Term European Paper (STEP) yield statistics

20/02/2007
ECB presents outcome of preliminary planning phase for its new premises
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16/02/2007
European Union supports cooperation between the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Bosnia Herzegovina

Signing of the protocol of the “Eurosystem needs assessment programme to the benefit of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina”

15/02/2007
Publication of a book entitled “Financial statistics for a global economy”

15/02/2007
Remarks by the European Central Bank on a resolution passed by the European Parliament relating to the operations of SWIFT

13/02/2007
Publication of the 2006 Study on the Euro Area Money Market

09/02/2007
Results of the January 2007 bank lending survey for the euro area

08/02/2007
Monetary policy decisions

01/02/2007
Eurosystem seminar with the central banks of west and central Africa
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01/02/2007
Remarks by the European Central Bank on the oversight of SWIFT

22/01/2007
Visit by the President of the European Council and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
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16/01/2007
Finalisation of the euro cash changeover in Slovenia
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12/01/2007
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

11/01/2007
Monetary policy decisions

03/01/2007
Development of the euro area monetary financial institutions sector

03/01/2007
The euro cash changeover in Slovenia
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02/01/2007
Key for subscriptions to the ECB’s capital – enlargement of the EU and the Eurosystem

02/01/2007
Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union

02/01/2007
Slovenia joins the euro area

29/12/2006
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems in the euro area

22/12/2006
The allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the year 2007

22/12/2006
Publication of the “Blue Book” statistical addendum incorporating 2005 data

22/12/2006
Banka Slovenije joins the Central Bank Gold Agreement

20/12/2006
ECB launches a new publication: the Research Bulletin

19/12/2006
Report on the 'Assessment of accounting standards from a financial stability perspective'

11/12/2006
Publication of the December 2006 ECB Financial Stability Review

07/12/2006
Monetary policy decisions

05/12/2006
ECB Convergence Report December 2006

04/12/2006
Third High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks held in Madrid on 4 December 2006
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01/12/2006
The ECB’s gold sales

21/11/2006
3rd High-level Seminar of Central Banks in the East Asia-Pacific Regions and the Euro Area

20/11/2006
Third progress report on TARGET2

20/11/2006
The Eurosystem’s View of a “SEPA for Cards”

09/11/2006
Update of the assessment of links between securities settlement systems in the euro area

09/11/2006
New presentation of euro area statistics on the IMF’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board

07/11/2006
Report on EU banking sector stability

06/11/2006
Stress-testing of the Eurosystem’s financial stability arrangements

03/11/2006
Results of the October 2006 bank lending survey for the euro area

02/11/2006
Monetary policy decisions

25/10/2006
Report on EU banking structures

20/10/2006
TARGET2-Securities

20/10/2006
Assessment of the Slovenian securities settlement system

20/10/2006
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems

12/10/2006
Third High-Level Eurosystem – Bank of Russia seminar

05/10/2006
Monetary policy decisions

29/09/2006
Publication of indicators of financial integration in the euro area

21/09/2006
Launch of the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse on the internet

20/09/2006
Publication of a report on differences in MFI interest rates across euro area countries

15/09/2006
New version of “The implementation of monetary policy in the euro area: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures”

15/09/2006
Assessment of STEP for collateral purposes in Eurosystem credit operations

31/08/2006
Monetary policy decisions

04/08/2006
Results of the july 2006 bank lending survey for the euro area

03/08/2006
Changes in senior management

03/08/2006
ECB opinion on the draft law amending the law on Narodowy Bank Polski
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03/08/2006
Monetary policy decisions

28/07/2006
Publication of the indicative calendar of reserve maintenance periods for 2007

28/07/2006
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s tender operations in 2007

21/07/2006
Communication on TARGET2

13/07/2006
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

11/07/2006
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and the Banka Slovenije
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10/07/2006
Visit by the President of the Slovak Republic
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07/07/2006
The Eurosystem is evaluating opportunities to provide settlement services for securities transactions

06/07/2006
Monetary policy decisions

22/06/2006
Exhibition of contemporary art from Slovakia
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13/06/2006
Assessment of the new global note arrangement for international debt securities

09/06/2006
Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS)

08/06/2006
Monetary policy decisions

02/06/2006
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2007

01/06/2006
Publication of the June 2006 ECB Financial Stability Review

01/06/2006
Distribution of responsibilities among the members of the Executive Board of the ECB

31/05/2006
First release of euro area accounts for institutional sectors (1999-2004)

19/05/2006
Publication of the Target Annual Report 2005

16/05/2006
ECB Convergence Report May 2006

05/05/2006
Results of the April 2006 bank lending survey for the euro area

05/05/2006
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2004 and the ECB’s reply

04/05/2006
Single Euro Payments Area

Joint statement from the European Commission and the European Central Bank

04/05/2006
Monetary policy decisions

28/04/2006
The European Central Bank opinion on the proposed directive on payment services in the internal market

07/04/2006
Publication of the document “ECB statistics: an overview”

06/04/2006
Monetary policy decisions

31/03/2006
The ECB’s gold sales

28/03/2006
New ECB Premises project

Soil investigations on the site of the Grossmarkthalle

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16/03/2006
Annual Accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2005

07/03/2006
Visit by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
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06/03/2006
Publication of an enhanced “Blue Book” statistical addendum

02/03/2006
ECB opinion on the appointment of a new member of the Executive Board of the ECB

02/03/2006
Monetary policy decisions

28/02/2006
Annual publication of the "List of monetary financial institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves" and the "List of monetary financial institutions in the acceding countries" as at end-December 2005

27/02/2006
Visit of the ECB President to the Republic of Bulgaria

24/02/2006
Launch of the “legal working paper series”

17/02/2006
Second annual quality report on the euro area balance of payments and international investment position statistics

17/02/2006
Towards a Single Euro Payments Area – Objectives and Deadlines (4th Progress Report)

03/02/2006
Results of the January 2006 bank lending survey for the euro area

02/02/2006
Monetary policy decisions

25/01/2006
Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks meet for third Euro-Mediterranean seminar
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20/01/2006
Publication of the Euro Money Market Survey 2005

13/01/2006
Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

13/01/2006
Amendments to “The implementation of monetary policy in the euro area: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures” relating to asset-backed securities

12/01/2006
Monetary policy decisions

02/01/2006
Bond markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union and in acceding countries – addendum incorporating 2004 figures

27/12/2005
Publication on the colloquium held in honour of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa on 27 April 2005

21/12/2005
Review of the international role of the euro

16/12/2005
Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the year 2006

12/12/2005
Information kit “Price stability: why is it important for you?” now available

08/12/2005
Publication of the December 2005 ECB Financial Stability Review

06/12/2005
Improving the accessibility of euro area statistics

Joint dissemination of euro area statistics and national contributions on the websites of the ECB and Eurosystem NCBs

01/12/2005
Monetary policy decisions

28/11/2005
Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II

25/11/2005
Slovak koruna included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

25/11/2005
Publication of a report on large EU banks’ exposures to hedge funds

25/11/2005
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

13/11/2005
Signing of a tripartite protocol on the start of a Eurosystem Programme on Banking Supervision in Cairo
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09/11/2005
High-level Seminar between the Eurosystem and Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks

04/11/2005
Results of the October 2005 bank lending survey for the euro area

03/11/2005
Monetary policy decisions

26/10/2005
Publication of the book “Legal aspects of the European System of Central Banks”

21/10/2005
Second progress report on TARGET2

17/10/2005
EU banking sector stability

13/10/2005
Joint Eurosystem – Bank of Russia seminar
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13/10/2005
Completion of central banking training project in Russia
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07/10/2005
Report on EU banking structures

06/10/2005
Monetary policy decisions

30/09/2005
Publication of indicators of financial integration in the euro area

01/09/2005
Monetary policy decisions

11/08/2005
Cultural days of the European Central Bank 2005: Hungary
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05/08/2005
Results of the July 2005 bank lending survey for the euro area

04/08/2005
Monetary policy decisions

04/08/2005
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s tender operations in 2006

04/08/2005
Publication of the indicative calendar of reserve maintenance periods for 2006

02/08/2005
Blue Book entitled “Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union”

Addendum incorporating 2003 figures

31/07/2005
Message from the President of the European Central Bank, Mr Jean-Claude Trichet

22/07/2005
Eurosystem collateral framework: Inclusion of non-marketable assets in the Single List

21/07/2005
Statement by the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet

15/07/2005
Biannual information on euro counterfeiting

12/07/2005
Publication of a statistical classification of financial markets instruments

07/07/2005
Monetary policy decisions

28/06/2005
New Directorate General Human Resources, Budget and Organisation

28/06/2005
Update of the assessment of links between securities settlement systems

16/06/2005
Bulgarian National Bank and National Bank of Romania Governors attend meeting of the General Council

09/06/2005
ECB and Coop Himmelb(l)au sign contract to launch optimisation phase of new ECB premises
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06/06/2005
Data on the use of eligible links

02/06/2005
Monetary policy decisions

30/05/2005
Publication of the book on the third ECB central banking conference “The New EU Member States: Convergence and Stability”

30/05/2005
First step towards the introduction of the single list of collateral provided for in the revised version of the “General Documentation”

25/05/2005
Book published on "Regional economic integration in a global framework" – Proceedings of the G20 Workshop held in Beijing, 22-23 September 2004

25/05/2005
Publication of the TARGET Annual Report 2004

19/05/2005
First issue of the International Journal of Central Banking

18/05/2005
Memorandum of Understanding on co-operation between the Banking Supervisors, Central Banks and Finance Ministries of the European Union in Financial Crisis situations

18/05/2005
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2006

06/05/2005
Results of the April 2005 bank lending survey for the euro area

04/05/2005
Monetary policy decisions

03/05/2005
Publication of the 2004 study on the euro area money market

02/05/2005
Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II

29/04/2005
Maltese lira included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

29/04/2005
Cyprus pound included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

29/04/2005
Latvian lats included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

21/04/2005
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems

07/04/2005
Monetary policy decisions

31/03/2005
The ECB’s gold sales

29/03/2005
Additional reference exchange rates for the euro

21/03/2005
Statement of the Governing Council on the ECOFIN Council’s report on Improving the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact

17/03/2005
ECB opinion on the appointment of a new member of the Executive Board of the ECB

15/03/2005
E-payments in Europe conference summary and final version of issues paper now available on the ECB’s website

14/03/2005
Annual accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2004

11/03/2005
Publication of a book on “Statistics and their use for monetary and economic policy-making”

03/03/2005
Live webcast and TV feed of the ECB’s monthly press conference starting on 3 March 2005

03/03/2005
Monetary policy decisions

02/03/2005
Publication of papers of the workshop “Monetary policy implications of heterogeneity in a currency area”

28/02/2005
Annual hard copy publication of the "List of monetary financial institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves" and the "List of monetary financial institutions in the accession countries" as at end-December 2004

28/02/2005
Blue Book entitled “Payment and securities settlement systems in the accession countries” - Addendum incorporating 2003 figures

21/02/2005
New version of “The implementation of monetary policy in the euro area: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures”

09/02/2005
Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks meet for Euro-Mediterranean seminar
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08/02/2005
TARGET2 Progress Report

04/02/2005
Results of the January 2005 bank lending survey for the euro area

03/02/2005
Monetary policy decisions

31/01/2005
Publication of a report on Banking structures in the new EU Member States

25/01/2005
Visit by the President of the Republic of Chile
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14/01/2005
New procedures for the transfer of securities used as collateral for Eurosystem credit operations

14/01/2005
Annual quality report on the euro area balance of payments and international investment position statistics

14/01/2005
Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the year 2005

13/01/2005
Governing Council decides on the design for the new ECB premises

13/01/2005
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

13/01/2005
Monetary policy decisions

07/01/2005
Review of the international role of the euro

06/01/2005
Framework for the detection of counterfeits and fitness sorting of euro banknotes by credit institutions and professional cash handlers

05/01/2005
The European Central Bank invites the market to participate in the SWIFT public consultation on removing technical barriers to market integration

20/12/2004
Publication of the Report by the ECB-CFS Research Network on “Capital Markets and Financial Integration in Europe”

17/12/2004
Review of the ECB’s statistical requirements

03/12/2004
Publication of euro bond market study 2004

02/12/2004
Changes in senior management
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02/12/2004
Towards a Single Euro Payments Area – third progress report

02/12/2004
Monetary policy decisions

26/11/2004
Second High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks held in Rio de Janeiro on 26 November 2004

24/11/2004
Bond markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union and in accession countries - third edition

24/11/2004
Publication of two reports on the EU banking sector

18/11/2004
New Director General Research

18/11/2004
The Governing Council will continue its deliberations on the new ECB premises

18/11/2004
The Governing Council of the ECB decides not to introduce very low denomination euro banknotes

11/11/2004
Results of the October 2004 bank lending survey for the euro area

10/11/2004
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

09/11/2004
Message from the President on behalf of the European Central Bank

05/11/2004
Memorial and information space commemorating the deportation of Jewish citizens from the Großmarkthalle
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04/11/2004
Monetary policy decisions

26/10/2004
Public comments announcement ‘E-payments without frontiers’ - issues paper

25/10/2004
Publication of a book: “The European Central Bank - History, role and functions”

22/10/2004
Approval of the report entitled 'Standards for securities clearing and settlement in the European Union’ by the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)

22/10/2004
Rules on the future procurement of euro banknotes

18/10/2004
Visit of the ECB’s President to the National Bank of Romania

15/10/2004
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2003 and the ECB’s reply

07/10/2004
Monetary policy decisions

28/09/2004
BIS Triennial Survey 2004

02/09/2004
Monetary policy decisions

13/08/2004
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s tender operations in 2005

13/08/2004
Publication of the indicative calendar of reserve maintenance periods for 2005

12/08/2004
Results of the July 2004 bank lending survey for the euro area

05/08/2004
Review of the Eurosystem’s collateral framework: second step towards a single list

05/08/2004
Monetary policy decisions

29/07/2004
Communication on clearing and settlement – the Eurosystem’s response

26/07/2004
Launch of new publication “International Journal of Central Banking”

22/07/2004
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

21/07/2004
Adherence of the central banks and banking supervisors of the new Member States to the Memoranda of Understanding on high-level principles of co-operation in crisis management situations and between payment systems overseers and banking supervisors

16/07/2004
Joint press statement EMEAP – Eurosystem high level seminar on 16 July 2004 in Singapore

13/07/2004
Statement by the European Central Bank

02/07/2004
Publication of a book on ’The development of statistics for Economic and Monetary Union’

01/07/2004
Monetary policy decisions

29/06/2004
New version of the ECB’s website www.ecb.int

28/06/2004
Conventions and Procedures for the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

28/06/2004
Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II
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27/06/2004
Estonian kroon included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

27/06/2004
Lithuanian litas included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

27/06/2004
Slovenian tolar included in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)

17/06/2004
Rules of Procedure of the General Council

17/06/2004
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2005

09/06/2004
Comparison of household saving ratios

Euro area / United States / Japan

03/06/2004
ECB decision on the rules applying to OLAF investigations

03/06/2004
Monetary policy decisions

26/05/2004
Publication: 'Risk Management for Central Bank Foreign Reserves'

26/05/2004
Joint Eurosystem - Bank of Russia Seminar Helsinki, 25 - 26 May, 2004

24/05/2004
Credit risk transfer by EU banks: activities, risks and risk management

24/05/2004
Third ECB Central Banking Conference “The New EU member states: convergence and stability”

13/05/2004
Publication of the results of the April 2004 bank lending survey for the euro area

12/05/2004
Publication of the TARGET Annual Report 2003

10/05/2004
Review of the Eurosystem’s Collateral Framework: First step towards a Single List

06/05/2004
Monetary policy decisions

03/05/2004
Signing of the agreement between the European Central Bank and Interpol

03/05/2004
Inclusion of the national central banks of the new Member States in the ERM II Central Bank Agreement

30/04/2004
The Governing Council of the ECB welcomes the new EU Member States

29/04/2004
Long-term interest rates for assessing convergence in the acceding countries

26/04/2004
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems

26/04/2004
Key for Subscription of the ECB’s Capital

15/04/2004
Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union and in the accession countries - addenda incorporating 2002 figures

14/04/2004
Foreign direct investment statistics: report on improving compilation methods

07/04/2004
Independent external evaluation of the economic research activities at the ECB

01/04/2004
ECB opinion on the appointment of a new member of the Executive Board of the ECB

01/04/2004
Monetary policy decisions

18/03/2004
ECB chooses participants for the revision phase of the “New ECB Premises” project

18/03/2004
Annual accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2003

18/03/2004
Public access to ECB documents

11/03/2004
Second ECB conference on statistics "Statistics and their use for monetary and economic policy-making"

08/03/2004
Joint Statement on Gold

05/03/2004
Paris seminar on the EU accession process
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05/03/2004
Weekly publication of estimates of average liquidity factors

04/03/2004
Monetary policy decisions

27/02/2004
Annual publication of the "List of monetary financial institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves" and the "List of monetary financial institutions in the accession countries"

25/02/2004
Publication of papers of the workshop "Asset Prices and Monetary Policy"

16/02/2004
Guidance notes on the MFI balance sheet statistics relating to EU enlargement as laid down in Regulation ECB/2003/10

13/02/2004
International jury chooses the three prizewinning designs in the architectural competition for the ECB's new premises

12/02/2004
Publication of the European Court of Auditors' report on the operational efficiency of the ECB's management for the financial year 2002 and the ECB's reply

12/02/2004
Publication of the results of the January 2004 bank lending survey for the euro area

06/02/2004
Publication of "The implementation of monetary policy in the euro area: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures"

05/02/2004
Monetary policy decisions

30/01/2004
Publication of the second edition of "The monetary policy of the ECB"

28/01/2004
Assessment of accession countries’ securities settlement systems against the standards for the use of EU securities settlement systems in Eurosystem credit operations

22/01/2004
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

16/01/2004
Publication of results of the "euro money market study 2003"

15/01/2004
Result of the public consultation on measures to improve the collateral framework of the Eurosystem

12/01/2004
Phasing-in of the changes to the Eurosystem’s operational framework for monetary policy in early 2004

12/01/2004
Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the year 2004

08/01/2004
Monetary policy decisions

30/12/2003
Key for subscription of the ECB's capital

23/12/2003
Manual on MFI interest rate statistics

18/12/2003
Policy position of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank on exchange rate issues relating to the acceding countries

17/12/2003
Enhancements to the correspondent central banking model (CCBM)

17/12/2003
2003 review of the international role of the euro

10/12/2003
Inaugural release of Euro area MFI interest rate statistics

05/12/2003
Book on seasonal adjustment

04/12/2003
Monetary policy decisions

28/11/2003
Structural analysis of the EU banking sector

27/11/2003
Letter of 26 November to the President of the Council of the European Union, on the introduction of a new article into the Constitution to allow for the amendment of the ESCB's basic constitutional rules by a simplified procedure

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, 26 November, 2001

25/11/2003
Statement of the Governing Council on the ECOFIN Council conclusions regarding the correction of excessive deficits in France and Germany

19/11/2003
EU banking sector stability

18/11/2003
Publication of a volume entitled "Background Studies for the ECB's Evaluation of its Monetary Policy Strategy"

13/11/2003
Publication of the results of the October 2003 Bank lending survey for the euro area

07/11/2003
Publication of a study on the euro area money market

06/11/2003
Monetary policy decisions

05/11/2003
Restructuring of the ECB's information technology function

03/11/2003
European Union balance of payments/ international investment position statistical methods

01/11/2003
Change of presidency of the European Central Bank

28/10/2003
Implementation of the new risk control framework: liquidity categories and issuer group classification

23/10/2003
New Director Communications

21/10/2003
Visit by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
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13/10/2003
Signing of a protocol on Central Bank Training in Russia

09/10/2003
Launch of the webpage for the ECB’s Survey of Professional Forecasters

07/10/2003
New regulations on money and banking statistics and the application of minimum reserves

06/10/2003
Bond markets and long-term interest rates in EU accession countries – second edition

02/10/2003
Decoration for Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank
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02/10/2003
Monetary policy decisions

30/09/2003
Inflation differentials in the euro area: potential causes and policy implications

22/09/2003
The European Central Bank adopts an opinion on the draft Constitution

14/09/2003
Statement by Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg President of the European Central Bank

04/09/2003
Monetary policy decisions

03/09/2003
Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union – Addendum incorporating 2001 figures

27/08/2003
Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income final report

15/08/2003
Launch of the Statistics Pocket Book

07/08/2003
Publication of the results of the July 2003 banklending survey for the euro area

01/08/2003
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in 2004

01/08/2003
Implementation issues related to the changes to the Eurosystem’s operational framework for monetary policy, and the indicative reserve maintenance periods calendar for 2004

31/07/2003
The European Central Bank adopts an opinion on the appointment of a new President

31/07/2003
Judgement of the European Court of Justice on OLAF case

31/07/2003
Monetary policy decisions

16/07/2003
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

10/07/2003
Monetary policy decisions

09/07/2003
Information Guide for credit institutions using TARGET

02/07/2003
New risk control framework for eligible assets

26/06/2003
Oversight standards for euro retail payment systems

26/06/2003
Towards a single euro payments area - progress report

26/06/2003
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2004

26/06/2003
Acceding country central bank Governors attend meeting of General Council of ECB

05/06/2003
Letter from the ECB President to the President of the Convention regarding the draft Constitutional Treaty

05/06/2003
Monetary policy decisions

02/06/2003
Book published on ECB conference "The transformation of the European financial system"

23/05/2003
Electronic Money System Security Objectives (EMSSO) report

15/05/2003
Publication of the results of the Bank lending survey for the euro area

12/05/2003
Manual "Accession countries: balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods"

09/05/2003
Decoration for Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank
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08/05/2003
Letter from Dr. W. F. Duisenberg to the President of the Convention regarding the draft Constitutional Treaty

08/05/2003
The ECB's monetary policy strategy

08/05/2003
Annual Report of the Anti-Fraud Committee

08/05/2003
Monetary policy decisions

06/05/2003
Publication of the methodological manual on money, banking and financial market statistics in the accession countries

05/05/2003
Amendment of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in 2003

30/04/2003
Transfer of the electronic Payment Systems Observatory from the European Commission to the European Central Bank

30/04/2003
Supplementary Guidance Notes concerning statistics on the holders of money market fund shares/units

30/04/2003
ECB Opinion on the appointment of a member of the Executive Board of the ECB

29/04/2003
The European Central Bank's Annual Report 2002

14/04/2003
TARGET Annual Report 2002

07/04/2003
80 architects selected for the first phase of the ECB's architectural competition

03/04/2003
Monetary policy decisions

02/04/2003
Decoration for Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank

25/03/2003
New rules on the reproduction and exchange of euro banknotes

20/03/2003
Statement of the Governing Council following the start of military action in Iraq

20/03/2003
Annual accounts of the European Central Bank for the year ending 31 December 2002

14/03/2003
Annual publication of the List of Monetary Financial Institutions in the accession countries as at end-December 2002

12/03/2003
Structural factors in the EU housing markets

10/03/2003
Memorandum of Understanding on high-level principles of co-operation between the banking supervisors and central banks of the European Union in crisis management situations

10/03/2003
Memorandum of Understanding on the exchange of information among credit registers for the benefit of reporting institutions

10/03/2003
The European Commission and the European Central Bank strengthen their co-operation on economic and financial statistics

06/03/2003
Monetary policy decisions

05/03/2003
Publication of a review of the foreign exchange market structure

28/02/2003
Annual publication of the List of Monetary Financial Institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves as at end-December 2002

24/02/2003
EU banking sector stability

10/02/2003
New Guideline of the ECB concerning Eurosystem reporting requirements and procedures in the field of money and banking statistics

10 February 2003

07/02/2003
Time series for liquidity conditions in the euro area

06/02/2003
Monetary policy decisions

04/02/2003
Governing Council formally recommends new voting system

4 February 2003

23/01/2003
Measures to improve the efficiency of the operational framework for monetary policy

23/01/2003
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

23/01/2003
Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the year 2003

09/01/2003
Monetary policy decisions

20/12/2002
Governing Council prepares for enlargement

13/12/2002
Publication of a study on the euro area money market

06/12/2002
Genval seminar on the EU accession process

06/12/2002
New Regulation in the field of money and banking statistics

05/12/2002
Review of the quantitative reference value for monetary growth

05/12/2002
Monetary policy decisions

02/12/2002
2002 Review of the international role of the euro

26/11/2002
European Central Bank launches international architectural competition

21/11/2002
Bank lending survey for the euro area

18/11/2002
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

15/11/2002
Structural developments in the EU banking sector

13/11/2002
Guidance Notes to the Regulation ECB/2001/13 on the MFI balance sheet statistics

08/11/2002
Prices, Productivity and GrowthA Joint ECB, Banco de España and CEPR Conference. Madrid 17/18 October 2003

07/11/2002
Monetary policy decisions

30/10/2002
Publication of the European Court of Auditors' report on the efficiency of the ECB's management for the financial year 2001 and the ECB's reply

25/10/2002
Financial structures in the euro area

24/10/2002
Statement of the Governing Council on the Stability and Growth Pact

24/10/2002
The long-term evolution of TARGET

10/10/2002
Mr. de Beaufort Wijnholds appointed as permanent representative of the European Central Bank in Washington, D.C. with observer status at the International Monetary Fund

10/10/2002
Monetary policy decisions

16/09/2002
"E-payments in Europe": conference and public consultation

16/09/2002
ECB hosts consultation on integration of short-term securities markets

12/09/2002
Monetary policy decisions

30/08/2002
Publication of the second edition of the accession country Blue Book

29/08/2002
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems

19/08/2002
Publication: "Financial sectors in EU Accession Countries"

02/08/2002
Publication of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in 2003

01/08/2002
Monetary policy decisions

31/07/2002
Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union - Addendum incorporating 2000 figures

31/07/2002
Biannual information on the counterfeiting of the euro

24/07/2002
Award for Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank
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22/07/2002
Publication of "Measurement issues in European Consumer Price Indices and the conceptual framework of the HICP"

10/07/2002
Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the second half of 2002

05/07/2002
International Research Forum on Monetary Policy

04/07/2002
Monetary policy decisions

01/07/2002
Visit of the Prime Minister of Australia

01/07/2002
Publication of papers of the workshop "The role of policy rules in the conduct of monetary policy"

28/06/2002
Annual publication of the "Preliminary list of Monetary Financial Institutions in the accession countries" (with reference date as at the end of December 2001)

20/06/2002
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2003

14/06/2002
Bond markets and long-term interest rates in EU accession countries

06/06/2002
Monetary policy decisions

24/05/2002
Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American central banks to be held in Madrid on 23 and 24 May 2002
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24/05/2002
Code of Conduct for the Members of the Governing Council

22/05/2002
Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American central banks to be held in Madrid on 23 and 24 May 2002

22/05/2002
ECB Convergence Report 2002

03/05/2002
Annual report of the Anti-Fraud Committee and the reply of the European Central Bank to the report

02/05/2002
Monetary policy decisions

26/04/2002
Publication of "The single monetary policy in the euro area: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures"

25/04/2002
TARGET Annual Report 2001

24/04/2002
Evaluation of the 2002 cash changeover

23/04/2002
New ECB Regulation in the field of minimum reserves

23/04/2002
The European Central Bank's Annual Report 2001

18/04/2002
ECB Opinion on the appointment of the Vice-President of the ECB

04/04/2002
Monetary policy decisions

28/03/2002
Compendium Collection of legal instruments

21/03/2002
Annual accounts of the European Central Bank (ECB) for the year ending 31 December 2001

11/03/2002
Labour market mismatches in euro area countries

07/03/2002
Monetary policy decisions

05/03/2002
European Central Bank buys Grossmarkt site

28/02/2002
Derogation for Greece from the long-term calendar for TARGET closing days

28/02/2002
The euro becomes the sole legal tender in all euro area countries

20/02/2002
Manual on "Accession countries: balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods"

14/02/2002
Annual hard copy publication of the: List of Monetary Financial Institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves as at the end of December 2001

07/02/2002
Monetary policy decisions

07/02/2002
Presidency of the European Central Bank

05/02/2002
ECB recognises partners' valuable contribution to the smooth introduction of the euro banknotes and coins

04/02/2002
Second ECB Central Banking Conference "The transformation of the European financial system"

25/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

18/01/2002
International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen to be awarded to the euro

18/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

11/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

10/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

09/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

08/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

07/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

04/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

03/01/2002
Update on the euro cash changeover

03/01/2002
Monetary policy decisions

02/01/2002
The euro cash changeover is progressing smoothly in all euro area countries

28/12/2001
The euro cash changeover on track

21/12/2001
New organisation chart of the European Central Bank

20/12/2001
ECB decision of the volume of coin issuance in 2002

20/12/2001
New ECB regulation on MFI interest rate statistics

13/12/2001
Signing of the agreement between the European Central Bank and Europol

07/12/2001
Berlin seminar on the eu accession process
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06/12/2001
Review of the quantitative reference value for monetary growth

06/12/2001
Decisions on the issue of euro banknotes and on the allocation of monetary income

06/12/2001
Monetary policy decisions

22/11/2001
New ECB regulation in the field of money and banking statistics

22/11/2001
Towards an integrated infrastructure for credit transfers in euro

09/11/2001
Publication of the report of the European Court of Auditors on the efficiency of the ECB's management for the financial year 2000 and the ECB's reply to the report

08/11/2001
Monetary policy decisions

05/11/2001
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

25/10/2001
Joint work between the CESR and the ECB on securities clearing and settlement systems

25/10/2001
Monetary policy decisions

19/10/2001
Publication of the "Provisional list of Monetary Financial Institutions of the accession countries" as at the end of December 2000

11/10/2001
Monetary policy decisions

09/10/2001
BIS Triennial Survey 2001

05/10/2001
Euro banknotes to be produced until 31 December 2001

01/10/2001
Public statement of the European Central Bank on its support for measures to prevent the use of the financial system in the funding of terrorist activities

27/09/2001
The Eurosystem's policy line with regard to consolidation in central counterparty clearing

27/09/2001
Monetary policy decisions

17/09/2001
Monetary policy decisions

14/09/2001
Amendment of the indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in 2002

13/09/2001
ECB Guideline adopting certain provisions on frontloading outside the euro area

13/09/2001
Swap agreement with the Federal Reserve

13/09/2001
Monetary policy decisions

12/09/2001
Fine tuning operation on 12 September 2001

11/09/2001
Eurosystem to support normal functioning of markets

05/09/2001
Publication of a volume on monetary analysis

30/08/2001
Amendment to the rules for the reproduction of euro banknotes

30/08/2001
Monetary policy decisions

28/08/2001
Publication: The Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank

23/08/2001
Publication of the indicative calendar for the eurosystem's tender operations in 2002

17/08/2001
Publication of a study related to the euro equity market

02/08/2001
Monetary policy decisions

20/07/2001
Publication of two studies related to the euro area money and bond market

19/07/2001
Monetary policy decisions

05/07/2001
Frontloading of euro banknotes to central banks outside the euro area

05/07/2001
Monetary policy decisions

04/07/2001
Update on the assessment of links between securities settlement systems

29/06/2001
Publication of the third edition of the "Blue Book"

28/06/2001
Publication of the proceedings of the first ECB Central Banking Conference "Why price stability?"

21/06/2001
Monetary policy decisions

07/06/2001
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2002

07/06/2001
Change of embargo for the publication of the Monthly Bulletin

07/06/2001
Monetary policy decisions

05/06/2001
A guide to Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projection exercises

23/05/2001
Monetary policy decisions

15/05/2001
TARGET Annual Report

10/05/2001
Monetary policy decisions

02/05/2001
The European Central Bank's Annual Report 2000

26/04/2001
Monetary policy decisions

23/04/2001
Additional refinancing operation with one week maturity on 27 April 2001

11/04/2001
Monetary policy decisions

03/04/2001
Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk

02/04/2001
Memorandum of understanding on cooperation between payment systems overseers and banking supervisors in stage three of economic and monetary union

30/03/2001
President's summing up of the position of the Governing Council

29/03/2001
Annual accounts of the European Central Bank (ECB) for the year ending on 31 December 2000

29/03/2001
Monetary policy decisions

22/03/2001
The role of central banks in prudential supervision

21/03/2001
Price effects of regulatory reform in selected network industries

16/03/2001
Publication of papers from a seminar on monetary analysis

15/03/2001
Outcome of the Governing Council meeting on 15 March 2001

15/03/2001
Monetary policy decisions

14/03/2001
Annual hard copy publication of the: List of Monetary Financial Institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves, as at the end of December 2000

07/03/2001
Joint press release by the European Commission, Europol and the ECB: Establishment of a "Steering Group" and a common inter-institutional strategy for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting
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06/03/2001
Cancellation: Outside Governing Council meeting and press conference in Dublin on 15 March 2001

01/03/2001
The European Central Bank outlines its Euro 2002 Information Campaign on the euro banknotes and coins

01/03/2001
Monetary policy decisions

22/02/2001
New ECB premises

21/02/2001
Update of the assessment of securities settlement systems

20/02/2001
European Central Bank and European Commission provide trainers of the blind, deaf and mentally disabled with dummy euro banknotes for training purposes

19/02/2001
Cross-border use of collateral: a users' survey

15/02/2001
Monetary policy decisions

01/02/2001
Monetary policy decisions

30/01/2001
International Monetary Fund: Concluding statement of the IMF mission on the economic policies of the euro area

29/01/2001
Visit by the President of the United Mexican States

18/01/2001
Monetary policy decisions

04/01/2001
Monetary policy decisions

02/01/2001
Greece now a member of European Economic and Monetary Union

28/12/2000
CBISSO (Ireland), CAT (Italy) and LDT (Italy) withdrawn from the list of securities settlement systems eligible for Eurosystem credit operations

20/12/2000
"Mergers and acquisitions involving the EU banking industry - facts and implications"

18/12/2000
Information guide for credit institutions using TARGET

15/12/2000
Vienna seminar on the EU accession process on 14-15 December 2000

14/12/2000
Long-term calendar for TARGET closing days

14/12/2000
Distribution of frontloaded euro banknotes outside the euro area

14/12/2000
Review of the quantitative reference value for monetary growth

14/12/2000
Monetary policy decisions

05/12/2000
"The single monetary policy in Stage Three: General documentation on Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures", Publication of the revised version

30/11/2000
Monetary policy decisions

16/11/2000
Publication of staff economic projections

16/11/2000
Monetary policy decisions

08/11/2000
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

03/11/2000
The ECB confirms intervention in the exchange markets

02/11/2000
Monetary policy decisions

19/10/2000
Monetary policy decisions

18/10/2000
Updated assessment of links between securities settlement systems

05/10/2000
ECB labour relationships and the social dialogue with regard to the ESCB

05/10/2000
Monetary policy decisions

28/09/2000
Additional reference exchange rates for the euro

28/09/2000
Statement by the President of the European Central Bank

22/09/2000
The ECB announces joint intervention in the exchange markets

14/09/2000
Improving cross-border retail payment services - Progress report

14/09/2000
Sales of foreign exchange interest income by the European Central Bank (ECB)

14/09/2000
Monetary policy decisions

31/08/2000
Production of the euro 100 banknotes

31/08/2000
Indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in 2001

31/08/2000
Monetary policy decisions

03/08/2000
1.Financial modalities for credit institutions for the 2002 cash changeover 2. The exchange of national banknotes of other participating Member States at the national central banks

03/08/2000
Statistical requirements of the European central bank in the field of general economic statistics

03/08/2000
Monetary policy decisions

31/07/2000
Launch of the Occasional Paper series

20/07/2000
Monetary policy decisions

13/07/2000
Determination of the number of euro banknotes to be printed before the launch date of 1 January 2002

11/07/2000
Production of the Euro 100 banknotes

06/07/2000
Monetary policy decisions

03/07/2000
Visit by the Austrian Federal Chancellor

21/06/2000
Statement on the role of the Eurosystem in the field of payment systems oversight

21/06/2000
Monetary policy decisions

19/06/2000
Communiqué of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Greece
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16/06/2000
Switch to variable rate tenders in main refinancing operations: some technical details

08/06/2000
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB and the related press conferences in 2001

08/06/2000
Monetary policy decisions

25/05/2000
TARGET closing days in 2001

25/05/2000
Monetary policy decisions

11/05/2000
Monetary policy decisions

10/05/2000
Updated assessment of links between securities settlement systems

05/05/2000
Statement on the euro by Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank

27/04/2000
Monetary policy decisions

13/04/2000
Monetary policy decisions

12/04/2000
Annual accounts of the ECB for the year ended 31 December 1999

12/04/2000
Annual Report 1999

03/04/2000
"EU banks' income structure" - "Asset prices and banking stability"

30/03/2000
Monetary policy decisions

16/03/2000
Monetary policy decisions

02/03/2000
Monetary policy decisions

29/02/2000
Blue book addendum - 1998

17/02/2000
Monetary policy decisions

03/02/2000
Updated assessment of links between securities settlement systems

03/02/2000
Monetary policy decisions

20/01/2000
Monetary policy decisions

17/01/2000
Euro central rates and intervention rates in ERM II

05/01/2000
Monetary policy decisions

04/01/2000
The Eurosystem will conduct a liquidity-absorbing fine-tuning operation on 5 January 2000

03/01/2000
Eurosystem operates smoothly on 3 January 2000

03/01/2000
Successful start of business at the ECB on 3 January 2000

20/12/1999
Visit by the Finnish Prime Minister

15/12/1999
Monetary policy decisions

02/12/1999
Minimum reserve system revision of the standardised deduction from the reserve base

02/12/1999
Review of the quantitative reference value for monetary growth

02/12/1999
Monetary policy decisions

01/12/1999
European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods

19/11/1999
Decision of the European Central Bank appointing the members of the Anti-Fraud Committee

18/11/1999
Monetary policy decisions

16/11/1999
Cross-border payments in TARGET: A users' survey

15/11/1999
Second edition of the "Money and Banking Statistics Sector Manual"

12/11/1999
Helsinki Seminar on the Accession Process

09/11/1999
Report on the legal protection of banknotes in the EU Member States

04/11/1999
Information campaign on the introduction of the euro banknotes and coins: selection of the agency

04/11/1999
Monetary policy decisions

03/11/1999
Schedule for the meetings of the Governing Council of the ECB in 1999 - Governing Council meeting on 16 December 1999 brought forward to 15 December 1999

21/10/1999
Monetary policy decisions

15/10/1999
ECB Regulation on the powers of the European Central Bank to impose sanctions (ECB/1999/4)

15/10/1999
Compendium: Collection of legal instruments

07/10/1999
Updated assessment of links between securities settlement systems

07/10/1999
Decision of the European Central Bank on fraud prevention

07/10/1999
Monetary policy decisions

27/09/1999
Demonstration of TARGET year 2000 compliance

26/09/1999
Joint statement on gold

23/09/1999
Indicative calendar for the Eurosystem's tender operations in the year 2000 including an adjustment to smooth the century date change

23/09/1999
Monetary policy decisions

13/09/1999
Improving cross-border retail payment services in the euro area - the Eurosystem's view

13/09/1999
New fee structure for the correspondent central banking model (CCBM)

09/09/1999
Monetary policy decisions

31/08/1999
Publication of the Blue book on EU accession countries

30/08/1999
Mr Gerald Grisse appointed as permanent representative of the European Central Bank in Washington, D.C. with observer status at the International Monetary Fund

26/08/1999
Monetary policy decisions

11/08/1999
The transition to the year 2000 and the demand for central bank liquidity

29/07/1999
Monetary policy decisions

15/07/1999
Euro banknote production begins
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15/07/1999
Euro coins. Background note prepared by the European Commission in close collaboration with the European Central Bank
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15/07/1999
TARGET closing days in 2000

15/07/1999
Monetary policy decisions

14/07/1999
Euro Area Monetary Aggregates Conceptual Reconciliation Exercise

01/07/1999
Information campaign on 2002 cash changeover

01/07/1999
Monetary policy decisions

24/06/1999
Information on the ECB's year 2000 compliance activities

17/06/1999
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and General Council of the ECB and related press conferences in 2000

17/06/1999
Monetary policy decisions

02/06/1999
Working Paper Series

02/06/1999
Monetary policy decisions

28/05/1999
Assessment of links between securities settlement systems and updating assessment of securities settlement systems

20/05/1999
Monetary policy decisions

06/05/1999
Monetary policy decisions

22/04/1999
Monetary policy decisions

21/04/1999
The Correspondent Central Banking Model

08/04/1999
Monetary policy decisions

31/03/1999
Year 2000 - Closing of TARGET on 31 December 1999

18/03/1999
Monetary policy decisions

04/03/1999
Monetary policy decisions

23/02/1999
Visit by His Royal Highness Don Felipe de Borbón

18/02/1999
Decisions on ECB interest rates

11/02/1999
Payment systems in the European Union: Addendum incorporating 1997 figures

09/02/1999
Possible effects of EMU on the EU banking systems in the medium to long term

08/02/1999
Mr. Robert Raymond appointed as permanent representative of the European Central Bank in Washington, D.C. with observer status at the International Monetary Fund

02/02/1999
Collateral obligations of counterparties in the Eurosystem's main refinancing operations

21/01/1999
Decisions on ECB interest rates

18/01/1999
ECB Monthly Bulletin

12/01/1999
The results of the second main refinancing operation of the Eurosystem and information regarding the first longer-term refinancing operations

11/01/1999
TARGET: temporary extended service window

07/01/1999
Decisions on ECB interest rates

05/01/1999
Consolidated opening financial statement of the European System of Central Banks (Eurosystem) as at 1 January 1999

05/01/1999
The first main refinancing operation of the Eurosystem

04/01/1999
Successful launch of TARGET

03/01/1999
Successful conversion to the euro

31/12/1998
Euro central rates and intervention rates in ERM II

31/12/1998
Determination of the euro conversion rates

31/12/1998
List of eligible assets

22/12/1998
The ECB interest rates to be applied at the start of Stage Three

17/12/1998
TARGET testing completed

14/12/1998
Consolidated balance sheet of the Monetary Financial Institutions sector (September 1997-October 1998) and the broad monetary aggregate M3 (December 1996-October 1998)

11/12/1998
Monitoring procedure of the ESCB during the changeover weekend

08/12/1998
Visit by the Spanish Prime Minister

04/12/1998
Regulation of the European Central Bank on the application of minimum reserves

04/12/1998
ECB Regulation concerning the consolidated balance sheet of the Monetary Financial Institutions sector

03/12/1998
Interest rates in the European Monetary Union

02/12/1998
On the publication of the Money and Banking Statistics Compilation Guide Addendum 1

01/12/1998
The quantitative reference value for monetary growth

01/12/1998
The correspondent central banking model

01/12/1998
Key for the ECB's capital

12/11/1998
Third progress report on the TARGET project

03/11/1998
Policy statement on euro payment and settlement systems located outside the euro area

03/11/1998
The exchange of national banknotes of other participating Member States by participating national central banks

03/11/1998
Preparations for the changeover weekend

23/10/1998
List of eligible assets

16/10/1998
List of Monetary financial institutions and institutions subject to minimum reserves

13/10/1998
The use of a minimum reserve system by the European System of Central Banks in stage three final specification

13/10/1998
Further decisions on the euro banknotes

13/10/1998
A stability-oriented monetary policy strategy for the ESCB

29/09/1998
Assessment of EU securities settlement systems against the standards for their use in ESCB credit operations

18/09/1998
The signing of the Headquarters agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Central Bank on 18 September 1998

18/09/1998
The single monetary policy in Stage Three: General documentation on ESCB monetary policy instruments and procedures

12/09/1998
Progress in the technical preparation of the euro banknotes

12/09/1998
Conventions and procedures for the new Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II)

12/09/1998
Capital subscription to the European Central Bank

12/09/1998
Schedules for the meetings of the Governing Council and General Council of the ECB

03/09/1998
Calendar of TARGET operating days for 1999

01/09/1998
Statement by the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) on the distribution of responsibilities among its members for the business areas of the ECB

31/08/1998
Report on electronic money

08/07/1998
Legal protection of euro banknotes

08/07/1998
Conditions for the participation of non-euro area EU national central banks and credit institutions in TARGET

08/07/1998
Setting-up of common market standards

08/07/1998
The use of a minimum reserve system by the European System of Central Banks in stage three

01/07/1998
Release of the TARGET general information brochure and of the TARGET service level document

10/06/1998
TARGET price structure

04/06/1998
Statement by the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB)on the distribution of responsibilities among its members for the businessareas of the ECB

05/05/1998
Statement by the Council of the European Monetary Institute on the recommendation from the Council of the European Union for the appointment of the members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank

02/05/1998
Joint communiqué on the determination of the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro

28/04/1998
Three guides for the production of euro area money and banking statistics

04/02/1998
Addendum to the "Blue Book", Payment Systems in the European Union, Incorporating 1996 figures

30/01/1998
European Union balance of payments (capital and financial accout) statistical methods book

20/01/1998
The Web site for the European Monetary Institute (EMI)

08/01/1998
Standards for the use of EU Securities Settlement Systems in ESCB credit operations

29/12/1997
Addendum to the provisional list of monetary financial institutions in the european union

17/11/1997
The date for the introduction of the euro banknotes

27/10/1997
Publication of the EMI's up-date on legal convergence of August 1997

24/09/1997
Publication of an information brochure by the European Monetary Institute

23/09/1997
The single monetary policy in Stage Three: General documentation on ESCB monetary policy instruments and procedures

18/09/1997
List of Monetary financial institutions in the European Union

16/09/1997
Second progress report in the TARGET project

09/09/1997
To the signatories of the joint statement (separate letters)

15/07/1997
Currency symbol for the euro

10/07/1997
Selection and further development of the euro banknotes designs

10/07/1997
Description of the selected designs

10/07/1997
Further development of the euro banknote designs

02/07/1997
The production and issue of banknotes in the EU member states

02/07/1997
The security features of the euro banknotes

02/07/1997
The euro banknotes and the partially sighted

02/07/1997
Selection and further development of the euro banknote designs

02/07/1997
The EMI's mandate with respect to banknotes

01/07/1997
Change of presidency of the European Monetary Institute

25/04/1997
"EUR" - the new currency code for the euro

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