Documents of international institutions
- IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (pdf, link to the IMF website) – sixth Edition (BPM6)
- International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity Guidelines for a Data Template (pdf, link to the IMF website)
- External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (link to the TFFS website)
- OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment (pdf, link to the OECD website) – fourth Edition (BD4)
- UN Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 (MSITS 2010) (link to the UNSD website)
- Guideline of the European Central Bank of 22 March 2013 concerning statistics on holdings of securities (ECB/2013/7) (pdf, 955 kB)
- Guideline of the European Central Bank of 26 September 2012 on the data quality management framework for the Centralised Securities Database (ECB/2012/21) (2012/689/EU) (pdf, 917 kB)
- Guideline of the European Central Bank of 26 November 2015 amending Guideline ECB/2011/23 (pdf, link to the EUR-Lex website) on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2015/39)
- Recommendation of the European Central Bank of 26 September 2012 on the data quality management framework for the Centralised Securities Database (ECB/2012/22) (2012/C 339/01) (pdf, 703 kB)
- Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the council of 20 June 2007 on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates (pdf, 128 kB)
- European Union balance of payments/international investment position statistical methods (pdf 2859 kB)
- Regulation (EU) 2016/1013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 (link to the EUR-Lex website) on Community statistics concerning balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 555/2012 of 22 June 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics concerning balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment, as regards the update of data requirements and definitions (pdf 7.7 MB; link to the EUR-Lex website)
- Regulation (EU) 2015/730 of the European Central Bank of 16 April 2015 (pdf, link to the EUR-Lex website) amending Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012 concerning statistics on holdings of securities (ECB/2012/24) (ECB/2015/18)
- Guideline (EU) 2022/747 of the European Central Bank of 5 May 2022 (link to the EUR-Lex website) amending Guideline 2012/120/EU on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (ECB/2011/23) (ECB/2022/23) (link to the EUR-Lex website)
- Guideline (EU) 2022/971 of the European Central Bank of 19 May 2022 on the Centralised Securities Database and the production of securities issues statistics and repealing Guideline 2012/689/EU (ECB/2012/21) and Guideline (EU) 2021/834 (ECB/2021/15) (ECB/2022/25)
- Recommendation of the European Central Bank of 19 May 2022 on the Centralised Securities Database and the production of securities issues statistics and repealing Recommendation ECB/2012/22 (ECB/2022/26)