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2011/65/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 11 November 2010 on the annual accounts of the European Central Bank (recast) (ECB/2010/21)
2011/65/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 11 November 2010 on the annual accounts of the European Central Bank (recast) (ECB/2010/21)
2011/65/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 11 November 2010 on the annual accounts of the European Central Bank (recast) (ECB/2010/21)
OJ L 35, 9.2.2011, p. 1–16
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 35/1 |
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 11 November 2010
on the annual accounts of the European Central Bank
(recast)
(ECB/2010/21)
(2011/65/EU)
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (hereinafter the ‘Statute of the ESCB’), and in particular Article 26.2 thereof,
Whereas:
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Decision ECB/2006/17 of 10 November 2006 on the annual accounts of the European Central Bank (1) has been substantially amended several times. Since further amendments are to be made, in particular with regard to the hedging of interest rate risk, it should be recast in the interests of clarity. |
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Guideline ECB/2006/16 of 10 November 2006 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (2) to which Decision ECB/2006/17 refers has been recast and repealed by Guideline ECB/2010/20 of 11 November 2010 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (3), |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Definitions
1. The terms defined in Article 1 of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall have the same meaning when used in this Decision.
2. Other technical terms used in this Decision shall have the same meaning as in Annex II to Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 2
Scope of application
The rules set out in this Decision shall apply to the annual accounts of the European Central Bank (ECB) comprising the balance sheet, items recorded in the books of the ECB off-balance-sheet, the profit and loss account and the notes to the annual accounts of the ECB.
Article 3
Basic accounting assumptions
The basic accounting assumptions defined in Article 3 of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall also apply for the purposes of this Decision.
Article 4
Recognition of assets and liabilities
A financial or other asset/liability shall only be recognised in the balance sheet of the ECB in accordance with Article 4 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 5
Economic and cash/settlement approaches
The rules set out in Article 5 of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall apply to this Decision.
CHAPTER II
COMPOSITION AND VALUATION RULES FOR THE BALANCE SHEET
Article 6
Composition of the balance sheet
The composition of the balance sheet shall be based on the structure set out in Annex I.
Article 7
Provision for foreign exchange rate, interest rate, credit and gold price risks
Taking into due consideration the nature of the ECB’s activities, the Governing Council may establish a provision for foreign exchange rate, interest rate, credit and gold price risks in the balance sheet of the ECB. The Governing Council shall decide on the size and use of the provision on the basis of a reasoned estimate of the ECB’s risk exposures.
Article 8
Balance sheet valuation rules
1. Current market rates and prices shall be used for balance sheet valuation purposes unless specified otherwise in Annex I.
2. The revaluation of gold, foreign currency instruments, securities other than those classified as held-to-maturity and non-marketable securities, as well as financial instruments, both on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet, shall be performed at the year-end at mid-market rates and prices.
3. No distinction shall be made between price and currency revaluation differences for gold, but a single gold revaluation difference shall be accounted for, based on the euro price per defined unit of weight of gold derived from the euro/US dollar exchange rate on the quarterly revaluation date. For foreign exchange, including on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet transactions, revaluation shall take place on a currency-by-currency basis. For the purpose of this Article, holdings of SDRs, including designated individual foreign exchange holdings underlying the SDR basket, shall be treated as one holding. For securities, revaluation shall take place on a code-by-code basis, i.e. same ISIN number/type. Securities held for monetary policy purposes or included in the items ‘Other financial assets’ or ‘Sundry’ shall be treated as separate holdings.
4. Securities classified as held-to-maturity shall be treated as separate holdings, valued at amortised costs and subject to impairment. The same treatment shall apply to non-marketable securities. Securities classified as held-to-maturity may be sold before their maturity in any of the following circumstances:
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if the quantity sold is considered not significant in comparison with the total amount of the held-to-maturity securities portfolio; |
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if the securities are sold during the month of the maturity date; |
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under exceptional circumstances, such as a significant deterioration of the issuer’s creditworthiness, or following an explicit monetary policy decision of the Governing Council. |
Article 9
Reverse transactions
Reverse transactions shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 8 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 10
Marketable equity instruments
Marketable equity instruments shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 9 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 11
Hedging of interest rate risk on securities with derivatives
The hedging of interest rate risk shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 10 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 12
Synthetic instruments
Synthetic instruments shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 11 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
CHAPTER III
INCOME RECOGNITION
Article 13
Income recognition
1. Article 13(1), (2), (3), (5) and (7) of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall apply to income recognition.
2. Holdings on special revaluation accounts stemming from contributions in accordance with Article 48.2 of the Statute of the ESCB with respect to central banks of Member States for which the derogation has been abrogated shall be used to offset unrealised losses when exceeding previous revaluation gains registered in the corresponding standard revaluation account as laid down by Article 13(1)(c) of Guideline ECB/2010/20, prior to the offsetting of such losses in accordance with Article 33.2 of the Statute of the ESCB. The holdings on special revaluation accounts for gold, currencies and securities shall be reduced pro rata in the event of a reduction in the holdings of the relevant assets.
Article 14
Cost of transactions
Article 14 of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall apply to this Decision.
CHAPTER IV
ACCOUNTING RULES FOR OFF-BALANCE-SHEET INSTRUMENTS
Article 15
General rules
Article 15 of Guideline ECB/2010/20 shall apply to this Decision.
Article 16
Foreign exchange forward transactions
Foreign exchange forward transactions shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 16 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 17
Foreign exchange swaps
Foreign exchange swaps shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 17 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 18
Future contracts
Future contracts shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 18 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 19
Interest rate swaps
Interest rate swaps shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 19 of Guideline ECB/2010/20. Unrealised losses taken to the profit and loss account at the year-end shall be amortised in subsequent years in accordance with the straight-line method. For forward interest rate swaps the amortisation shall begin from the value date of the transaction.
Article 20
Forward rate agreements
Forward rate agreements shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 20 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 21
Forward transactions in securities
Forward transactions in securities shall be accounted for in accordance with Method A in Article 21(1) of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
Article 22
Options
Options shall be accounted for in accordance with Article 22 of Guideline ECB/2010/20.
CHAPTER V
ANNUAL PUBLISHED BALANCE SHEET AND PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
Article 23
Formats
1. The format of the ECB’s published annual balance sheet shall follow the format in Annex II.
2. The format of the ECB’s published profit and loss account shall comply with Annex III.
CHAPTER VI
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 24
Development, application and interpretation of rules
1. In interpreting this Decision, account shall be taken of the preparatory work, the accounting principles harmonised by Union law and generally accepted international accounting standards.
2. If a specific accounting treatment is not laid down in this Decision and in the absence of a decision to the contrary by the Governing Council, the ECB shall follow valuation principles in accordance with International Accounting Standards as adopted by the European Union, which are relevant to the ECB’s activities and accounts.
Article 25
Repeal
Decision ECB/2006/17 is hereby repealed. References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex V.
Article 26
Entry into force
This Decision shall enter into force on 31 December 2010.
Done at Frankfurt am Main, 11 November 2010.
The President of the ECB
Jean-Claude TRICHET
(1) OJ L 348, 11.12.2006, p. 38.
(2) OJ L 348, 11.12.2006, p. 1.
(3) See page 31 of this official Journal.
ANNEX I
COMPOSITION AND VALUATION RULES FOR THE BALANCE SHEET
Note: the numbering relates to the balance sheet format given in Annex II.
ASSETS
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Categorisation of contents of balance sheet items |
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Physical gold, i.e. bars, coins, plates, nuggets, in storage or ‘under way’. Non-physical gold, such as balances in gold sight accounts (unallocated accounts), term deposits and claims to receive gold arising from the following transactions: (a) upgrading or downgrading transactions; and (b) gold location or purity swaps where there is a difference of more than one business day between release and receipt |
Market value |
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Claims on counterparties resident outside the euro area including international and supranational institutions and central banks outside the euro area denominated in foreign currency |
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Lending in accordance with the ERM II conditions |
Nominal value |
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Items 5.1 to 5.5: transactions in accordance with the respective monetary policy instruments described in Annex I to Guideline ECB/2000/7 of 31 August 2000 on monetary policy instruments and procedures of the Eurosystem (1) |
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Regular liquidity-providing reverse transactions with a weekly frequency and normally a maturity of 1 week |
Nominal value or repo cost |
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Regular liquidity-providing reverse transactions with a monthly frequency and normally a maturity of 3 months |
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Reverse transactions, executed as ad hoc transactions for fine-tuning purposes |
Nominal value or repo cost |
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Reverse transactions adjusting the structural position of the Eurosystem vis-à-vis the financial sector |
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Overnight liquidity facility at a pre-specified interest rate against eligible assets (standing facility) |
Nominal value or repo cost |
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Additional credit to credit institutions, arising from value increases of underlying assets regarding other credit to these credit institutions |
Nominal value or cost |
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Current accounts, fixed-term deposits, day-to-day money, reverse repo transactions in connection with the management of security portfolios under the asset item 7 ‘Securities of euro area residents denominated in euro’, including transactions resulting from the transformation of former foreign currency reserves of the euro area, and other claims. Correspondent accounts with non-domestic euro area credit institutions. Other claims and operations unrelated to monetary policy operations of the Eurosystem |
Nominal value or cost |
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Securities issued in the euro area held for monetary policy purposes. ECB debt certificates purchased for fine-tuning purposes |
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Securities other than those under asset item 7.1 ‘Securities held for monetary policy purposes’ and under asset item 11.3 ‘Other financial assets’: notes and bonds, bills, zero bonds, money market paper held outright, including government securities stemming from before EMU, denominated in euro. Equity instruments |
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Claims on government stemming from before EMU (non-marketable securities, loans) |
Deposits/loans at nominal value, non-marketable securities at cost |
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Intra-Eurosystem claims vis-à-vis NCBs, arising from the issuance of ECB debt certificates |
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Claims related to the ECB's banknote issue, in accordance with Decision ECB/2010/29 of 13 December 2010 on the issue of euro banknotes (2) |
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Net position of the following sub-items: |
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Settlement account balances (claims), including the float of cheques in collection |
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Euro coins |
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Land and buildings, furniture and equipment including computer equipment, software |
Cost less depreciation Depreciation is the systematic allocation of the depreciable amount of an asset over its useful life. The useful life is the period over which a fixed asset is expected to be available for use by the entity. Useful lives of individual material fixed assets may be reviewed on a systematic basis, if expectations differ from previous estimates. Major assets may comprise components with different useful lives. The lives of such components should be assessed individually The cost of intangible assets includes the price for the acquisition of the intangible asset. Other direct or indirect costs are to be expensed Capitalisation of expenditure: limit based (below EUR 10 000 excluding VAT: no capitalisation) |
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Valuation results of foreign exchange forwards, foreign exchange swaps, interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, forward transactions in securities, foreign exchange spot transactions from trade date to settlement date |
Net position between forward and spot, at the foreign exchange market rate |
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Income not due in, but assignable to the reported period. Prepaid expenditure and accrued interest paid, i.e. accrued interest purchased with a security |
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LIABILITIES
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Euro banknotes issued by the ECB, in accordance with Decision ECB/2010/29 |
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Items 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.5: deposits in euro as described in Annex I to Guideline ECB/2000/7 |
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Euro accounts of credit institutions that are included in the list of financial institutions subject to minimum reserves in accordance with the Statute of the ESCB. This item contains primarily accounts used in order to hold minimum reserves |
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Overnight deposits at a pre-specified interest rate (standing facility) |
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Collection for liquidity absorption purposes owing to fine-tuning operations |
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Monetary policy-related transactions with the aim of liquidity absorption |
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Deposits of credit institutions, arising from value decreases of underlying assets regarding credits to these credit institutions |
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Repo transactions in connection with simultaneous reverse repo transactions for the management of securities portfolios under asset item 7 ‘Securities of euro area residents denominated in euro’. Other operations unrelated to Eurosystem monetary policy operations. No current accounts of credit institutions |
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Debt certificates as described in Annex I to Guideline ECB/2000/7. Discount paper, issued with the aim of liquidity absorption |
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Current accounts, fixed-term deposits, deposits repayable on demand |
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Current accounts of staff, companies and clients including financial institutions listed as exempt from the obligation to hold minimum reserves (See liability item 2.1); fixed-term deposits, deposits repayable on demand |
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Current accounts, fixed-term deposits, deposits repayable on demand including accounts held for payment purposes and accounts held for reserve management purposes: of other banks, central banks, international/supranational institutions including the European Commission; current accounts of other depositors. Repo transactions in connection with simultaneous reverse repo transactions for the management of securities denominated in euro. Balances of TARGET2 accounts of central banks of Member States whose currency is not the euro |
Nominal value or repo cost |
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Current accounts. Liabilities under repo transactions; usually investment transactions using foreign currency assets or gold |
Nominal value, translation at year-end foreign exchange market rate |
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Current accounts. Liabilities under repo transactions; usually investment transactions using foreign currency assets or gold |
Nominal value, translation at the year-end foreign exchange market rate |
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Borrowing in accordance with the ERM II conditions |
Nominal value, translation at the year-end foreign exchange market rate |
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SDR-denominated item which shows the amount of SDRs that were originally allocated to the respective country/NCB |
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Valuation results of foreign exchange forwards, foreign exchange swaps, interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, forward transactions in securities, foreign exchange spot transactions from trade date to settlement date |
Net position between forward and spot, at the foreign exchange market rate |
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Expenditure falling due in a future period but relating to the reporting period. Income received in the reported period but relating to a future period |
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Paid-up capital |
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(1) OJ L 310, 11.12.2000, p. 1.
(2) See page 26 of this Official Journal. Decision ECB/2010/29 adopted before publication of Decision ECB/2010/21.
ANNEX II
ANNUAL BALANCE SHEET OF THE ECB
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Liabilities |
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(1) The ECB may alternatively publish exact euro amounts, or amounts rounded in a different manner.
(2) The table of assets may also be published above the table of liabilities.
ANNEX III
PUBLISHED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT OF THE ECB
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(1) The ECB may alternatively publish exact euro amounts, or amounts rounded in a different manner.
(2) The breakdown between income and expenses may alternatively be provided in the explanatory notes to the annual accounts.
(3) This includes administrative provisions.
(4) This item is used in the case of outsourced banknote production (for the cost of the services provided by external companies in charge of the production of banknotes on behalf of the central banks). It is recommended that the costs incurred in connection with the issue of euro banknotes should be taken to the profit and loss account as they are invoiced or otherwise incurred, see also Guideline ECB/2010/20.
ANNEX IV
REPEALED DECISION AND SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS
Decision ECB/2006/17 |
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Decision ECB/2007/21 |
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Decision ECB/2008/22 |
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Decision ECB/2009/19 |
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Decision ECB/2009/29 |
ANNEX V
CORRELATION TABLE
Decision ECB/2006/17 |
This Decision |
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Article 11 |
Article 10a |
Article 12 |
Article 11 |
Article 13 |
Article 12 |
Article 14 |
Article 13 |
Article 15 |
Article 14 |
Article 16 |
Article 15 |
Article 17 |
Article 16 |
Article 18 |
Article 17 |
Article 19 |
Article 18 |
Article 20 |
Article 19 |
Article 21 |
Article 20 |
Article 22 |
Article 21 |
Article 23 |
Article 22 |
Article 24 |
Article 23 |
Article 25 |
Article 24 |
Article 26 |