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1. ‘the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements’ shall mean the statistical information which reporting agents are required to provide and which is necessary for the tasks of the ESCB to be performed; 1a. ‘European statistics’ shall mean statistics that are:

(i) necessary to undertake the ESCB’s tasks as referred to in the Treaty;

(ii) determined in the ESCB’s statistical work programme; and (iii) developed, produced and disseminated in conformity with the statistical principles referred to in Article 3a; 2. ‘reporting agents’ shall mean the legal and natural persons and the entities and branches referred to in Article 2(3) which are subject to the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements; 3. ‘participating Member State’ shall mean a Member State which has adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty;

4. ‘resident’ and ‘residing’ shall mean having a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of a country as described in Chapter 1(1.30) of Annex A to Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community (); in this context, ‘cross-border positions’ and ‘cross-border transactions’ shall mean respectively positions and transactions in the assets and/or liabilities of residents of participating Member States seen as one economic territory vis-à-vis residents of non-participating Member States and/or residents of third countries; 5. ‘international investment position’ shall mean the balance sheet of the stock of cross-border financial assets and liabilities; 6. ‘electronic money’ shall mean an electronic store of monetary value on a technical device, including prepaid cards, that may be widely used for making payments to entities other than the issuer without necessarily involving bank accounts in the transaction, but acting as a prepaid bearer instrument; 7. ‘use for statistical purposes’ shall mean the exclusive use for the development and production of statistical results and statistical analyses;

8. ‘development’ shall mean activities aiming at setting up, strengthening and improving the statistical methods, standards and procedures used for the production and dissemination of statistics as well as at designing new statistics and indicators; 9. ‘production’ shall mean all the activities related to the collection, storage, processing and analysis necessary for compiling statistics; 10. ‘dissemination’ shall mean the activity of making statistics, statistical analyses and non-confidential information accessible to users; 11. ‘statistical information’ shall mean aggregated and individual data, indicators and related metadata;

12. ‘confidential statistical information’ shall mean statistical information which allows reporting agents or any other legal or natural person, entity or branch to be identified, either directly from their name or address or from an officially allocated identification code, or indirectly through deduction, thereby disclosing individual information. To determine whether a reporting agent or any other legal or natural person, entity or branch is identifiable, account shall be taken of all the means that might reasonably be used by a third party to identify the said reporting agent or the other legal or natural person, entity or branch.