ANNEX IIISupplementary provisions
ANNEX III MINIMUM STANDARDS TO BE APPLIED BY THE ACTUAL REPORTING POPULATION Reporting agents must fulfil the following minimum standards to meet the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) statistical reporting requirements. 1. Minimum standards for transmission: (a) reporting must be timely and within the deadlines set by the relevant NCB; (b) statistical reports must take their form and format from the technical reporting requirements set by the relevant NCB; (c) the contact person(s) within the reporting agent must be identified; (d) the technical specifications for data transmission to the relevant NCB must be followed. 2. Minimum standards for accuracy: (a) the statistical information must be correct: all linear constraints must be fulfilled (e.g. assets and liabilities must balance, subtotals must add up to totals); (b) reporting agents must be able to provide information on the developments implied by the transmitted data; (c) the statistical information must be complete and must not contain continuous and structural gaps; existing gaps should be acknowledged, explained to the relevant NCB and, where applicable, bridged as soon as possible; (d) reporting agents must follow the dimensions, rounding policy and decimals set by the relevant NCB for the technical transmission of the data. 3. Minimum standards for compliance with concepts: (a) the statistical information must comply with the definitions and classifications contained in this Regulation; (b) in the event of deviations from these definitions and classifications, reporting agents must monitor and quantify the difference between the measure used and the measure compliant with this Regulation on a regular basis; (c) reporting agents must be able to explain breaks in the data supplied compared with the previous periods’ figures. 4. Minimum standards for revisions: The revisions policy and procedures set by the ECB and the relevant NCB must be followed. Revisions deviating from regular revisions must be accompanied by explanatory notes.