DATA - Reserve maintenance

Source: OeNB.

Owing to changes in the operational monetary policy framework, there was no maintenance period that ended in February 2004.

This table contains full data for the completed maintenance periods. In July 2014, the Governing Council decided that meetings dedicated to monetary policy will be held every six weeks instead of once in a month, starting in January 2015. As a consequence, the maintenance periods will be extended to about six weeks as well, meaning that minimum reserve requirements must be fulfilled eight times a year as of 2015.

Between the 7th maintenance period 2019 and the 6th maintenance period 2022, the interest rate on excess reserves that fall below six times the level of minimum reserve requirements was 0%. During this period, excess reserves were therefore further split into those that fall below this threshold (exempted excess reserve) and those that exceed it (non-exempted excess reserves).

Reserve maintenance
Average of end-of-day balances over a maintenance period	Apr. 26	May 26	June 26	July 26	Aug. 26	Sep. 26
EUR million
Required reserves	x	4,928	4,814	4,979	x	4,906
Actual reserve holdings	x	5,064	4,925	14,562	x	14,542
Excess reserves	x	136	111	9,583	x	9,636
Shortfall	x	0	0	0	x	0
in %
Interest rate on minimum reserves	x	0.00	0.00	0.00	x	0.00