Guideline (EU) 2015/948 of the European Central Bank of 16 April 2015 amending Guideline ECB/2013/7 concerning statistics on holdings of securities (ECB/2015/19)

‘1 NCBs shall collect and report to the ECB statistical information on holdings of securities with an ISIN code, on a security-by-security basis, in accordance with the reporting schemes in Annex I, Part 1 (Tables 1 to 3) and Part 2 (Tables 1 to 3), and in compliance with electronic reporting standards which are laid down separately, for the following types of instruments: short-term debt securities (F.31); long-term debt securities (F.32); listed shares (F.511) and investment fund shares or units (F.52). NCBs' reporting obligations shall cover end-of-quarter positions and either (i) end-of-quarter financial transactions over the reference quarter, or (ii) end-of-month or end-of-quarter data that are necessary to derive financial transactions, as laid down in paragraph 2. NCBs shall also report end-of-year positions, as laid down in Article 3(2b) of Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24) in accordance with the reporting scheme in Annex I, Part 3 (Tables 1 to 2) of this Guideline. Financial transactions or data necessary to derive financial transactions that are reported by actual reporting agents to NCBs in accordance with Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24) shall be measured as laid down in Part 3 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24).’;

‘1 NCBs may decide whether to report to the ECB statistical information covering securities without an ISIN code held by monetary financial institutions (MFIs), investment funds (IFs), financial vehicle corporations engaged in securitisation transactions (FVCs), ICs and heads of reporting groups subject to Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24) or held by custodians on behalf of: (i) resident investors not subject to Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24); (ii) non-financial investors resident in other euro area Member States; or (iii) investors resident in non-euro area Member States, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24), that are not granted a derogation from reporting requirements under Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 (ECB/2012/24).’.

Annex I to Guideline ECB/2013/7 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Guideline.

This Guideline shall take effect on the day of its notification to the NCBs. The Eurosystem central banks shall comply with this Guideline from the date of entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2015/730 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2015/18) .

This Guideline is addressed to all Eurosystem central banks.