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

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

ECON-PR-777060

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs · Rapporteur: Aurore Lalucq

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This draft report concerns a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 on the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank. Parliament approves the draft as amended and calls for safeguards against confidentiality breaches, in line with GDPR. It also welcomes increased sanctions for non-compliance and proposes that the ECB update these amounts every five years according to euro area inflation.

Committee position. The rapporteur welcomes the ECB recommendation and proposes amendments to strengthen confidentiality safeguards and require periodic review of sanction amounts.

Key points

  1. Parliament approves the draft proposed in the ECB recommendation as amended.
  2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament.
  3. Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the draft.
  4. The regulation should be amended to reduce risks of breach of confidential statistical information and bring safeguards in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
  5. Welcomes the increase in sanctions for failure to comply with statistical reporting obligations and suggests the ECB updates the amounts every five years in line with euro area inflation.

Who is affected

  • The European Central Bank and the European System of Central Banks, which collect statistical information.
  • Entities subject to statistical reporting requirements, who face sanctions for non-compliance.

Figures and deadlines

  • Sanction amounts should be updated every five years in accordance with the inflation rate of the euro area.

Legal basis: 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