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DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

P10_TA(2025)0297

on the draft Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 concerning the collectionCollection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (ECB/2025/17)

(09737/2025 – C100118/2025 – 2025/0806(CNS))

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

(Special legislative procedure – consultation)

PE777.060

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 November 2025 on the draft Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 concerning the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (09737/2025 – C10-0118/2025 – 2025/0806(CNS))

(Consultation)

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the recommendation offrom the European Central Bank (09737/2025 – ECB/2025/17),

– having regard to Article 129(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Articles 5.4 and 41 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C100118/2025),

3. Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the draft proposed in the recommendation of the European Central Bank;

4. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the CommissionEuropean Central Bank and the national parliaments.Commission.

Amendment 1

Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Your rapporteur welcomes the recommendation of the European Central Bank to amend Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 in order to take into account the significant changes in the collection, compilation, dissemination and use of statistical information by the ESCB owing to the digital transformation.

As ECB stresses in its recommendation, these changes have led to a demand for timelier, more frequent and more detailed statistical information, and also offered new possibilities for a more efficient collection of statistical information. These demands and opportunities should be, indeed, balanced by minimising the associated risks. Among these risks, your rapporteur would like to stress the importance of minimising the risk of breach of confidentiality or misuse of confidential information for purposes other than those consented to between the parties involved. For this purpose, this Regulation should be further amended to reduce any risk of breach of confidential statistical information and bring adequate safeguards, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In addition, ECB recommends increasing the amount of sanctions in case of failure to comply with obligations resulting from ECB regulations or decisions defining and imposing statistical reporting requirements. Your rapporteur welcomes this amendment and suggests that ECB updates the amount of these sanctions every five years in accordance with the inflation rate of the euro area. The periodical review of these amounts may avoid that these sanctions lose their deterrent effect and effectiveness overtime.

ANNEX: DECLARATION OF INPUT

The rapporteur declares under her exclusive responsibility that she did not include in her report input from interest representatives falling within the scope of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory transparency register, or from representatives of public authorities of third countries, including their diplomatic missions and embassies, to be listed in this Annex pursuant to Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure.

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