Description: Publishing these statistics is an obligation under the SDDS. "Memorandum Items" provide an additional breakdown of claims of the OeNB and liabilities of the central government provided in sections I and II. The OeNB’s official reserve assets (as presented in section I) are broken down by currency groups.
Source: OeNB, Austrian Federal Financing Agency.
Definitions and terms: Forward transaction, financial derivatives, futures, swaps, short position, long position, official reserve assets, currency groups, SDR currency basket.
Legal basis: 2012/120/EU Guideline of the European Central Bank of 9 December 2011 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2011/23).
Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund and Special Data Dissemination Standard of the IMF.
Methodology: Collected monthly.
Reporting institutions: OeNB, Austrian Federal Financing Agency.
Standards and codes: 2012/120/EU Guideline of the European Central Bank of 9 December 2011 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2011/23).
IMF, 2011: International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines For A Data Template.
