Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics
CMFB
The Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) was established by a Council Decision in 1991 (91/115/EEC) to assist the European Commission in drawing up and implementing work programmes concerning monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics. In recent years, the CMFB had played an important advisory role in the statistical issues related to Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) decisions. The CMFB is the forum for co-ordination of statisticians from the national statistical institutes and Eurostat on the one hand, and the national central banks and the European Central Bank on the other.
Recent developments
2024-09-10 - CMFB opinion on new EDP reporting tables (6.2 General government expenditure on co-financing of programmes funded by the Union; 7.3 Investment in defence) (link)
2024-07-08 - 2024 Quality assessment report on statistics underlying the MIP Scoreboard (digital version ; pdf download)
2024-06-12 - Balance of payments and international investment position statistics, 2023 edition (link)
2024-05-22 - Conclusions and list of actions from the CMFB plenary meeting of 1-2 February 2024 (link)
2024-04-19 - CMFB Vision on Globalisation and Statistics (link)
2023-07-13 - ESS – ESCB quality assessment report on statistics underlying the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure, 2023 edition (link)
2023-07-12 - CMFB opinion on the Exchange of Confidential Statistical Information (ECI) on European Statistics for statistical purposes between the ESS and the ESCB (link)
2023-06-03- CMFB opinion on the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as unique identifier of financial and non-financial companies for statistical purposes (link)
Report of the Task Force on the Exchange of Confidential Information
2023-04-13 - Report of the Task Force on statistics on sustainable finance and climate related risks (link)