confidential statistical informationshall mean statistical information which allows reporting agents or any other legal or natural person, entity or branch to be identified, either directly from their name or address or from an officially allocated identification code, or indirectly through deduction, thereby disclosing individual information.
cross-border transactionsshall mean respectively positions and transactions in the assets and/or liabilities of residents of participating Member States seen as one economic territory vis-à-vis residents of non-participating Member States and/or residents of third countries;
developmentshall mean activities aiming at setting up, strengthening and improving the statistical methods, standards and procedures used for the production and dissemination of statistics as well as at designing new statistics and indicators;
disseminationshall mean the activity of making statistics, statistical analyses and non-confidential information accessible to users;
electronic moneyshall mean an electronic store of monetary value on a technical device, including prepaid cards, that may be widely used for making payments to entities other than the issuer without necessarily involving bank accounts in the transaction, but acting as a prepaid bearer instrument;
European statisticsshall mean statistics that are: (i) necessary to undertake the ESCB’s tasks as referred to in the Treaty;
international investment positionshall mean the balance sheet of the stock of cross-border financial assets and liabilities;
participating Member Stateshall mean a Member State which has adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty;
productionshall mean all the activities related to the collection, storage, processing and analysis necessary for compiling statistics;
reporting agentsshall mean the legal and natural persons and the entities and branches referred to in Article 2(3) which are subject to the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements;
residingshall mean having a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of a country as described in Chapter 1(1.30) of Annex A to Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community;
statistical informationshall mean aggregated and individual data, indicators and related metadata;
use for statistical purposesshall mean the exclusive use for the development and production of statistical results and statistical analyses;