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Official reserve assets, other foreign currency assets and related short-term liabilities: September 2008

(EUR millions)

This table shows the national contributions to the outstanding amounts of the Eurosystem's international reserves and related assets and liabilities. These figures do not fully add up to the total international reserves owing to differences in gold valuation. For more information, please refer to the publication entitled "Statistical treatment of the Eurosystem's international reserves" (October 2000), 1307 kb, en.

					Euro area¹⁾	ECB	BE	DE	IE	GR²⁾	ES	FR	IT	CY³⁾	LU	MT⁴⁾	NL	AT	PT	SI⁵⁾	SK⁶⁾	FI
Legend: - related data do not exist or are subject to statistical confidentiality · data are not yet available
Notes: Euro area data cover the EU Member States that had adopted the euro at the time to which the statistics relate. Greek data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2001. Cypriot data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2008. Maltese data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2008. Slovenian data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2007. Slovakian data are included in euro area aggregates as of January 2009.
1. Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets (approximate market value)
	1.1. Official reserve assets				372,531	44,101	10,680	99,936	653	2,498	13,806	79,979	72,863	951	499	349	20,656	12,550	8,698	709	·	5,834
		1.1.1. Foreign currency reserves (in convertible foreign currencies)			147,509	33,157	5,353	28,504	394	133	7,857	27,469	23,391	659	422	265	7,308	6,579	822	618	·	4,578
			1.1.1.1. Securities		117,787	30,214	4,281	21,297	391	11	7,443	18,472	18,220	401	157	111	6,522	4,779	696	579	·	4,213
			1.1.1.2. Total currency and deposits		29,722	2,943	1,072	7,207	3	122	414	8,997	5,171	259	265	154	786	1,800	126	39	·	364
				1.1.1.2.1. With other national central banks, BIS and IMF	11,622	672	696	1,815	2	121	401	1,509	4,095	52	265	36	677	1,144	2	0	·	134
				1.1.1.2.2. With banks headquartered in the euro area and located abroad	3,382	473	247	1,926	-	0	3	297	332	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	·	104
				1.1.1.2.3. With banks headquartered and located outside the euro area	14,717	1,797	129	3,466	1	1	10	7,192	744	207	0	117	109	656	123	39	·	126
		1.1.2. IMF reserve position			4,015	0	361	1,076	62	64	238	860	548	9	19	44	403	147	68	19	·	99
		1.1.3. SDRs			4,640	342	416	1,548	76	23	159	686	177	2	12	43	715	177	86	8	·	169
		1.1.4. Gold (including gold deposits and gold swapped)			216,832	10,610	4,588	68,808	121	2,278	5,678	50,963	48,748	280	46	4	12,530	5,646	7,713	64	·	989
			1.1.4.1. Volume in millions of fine troy ounces		350.634	17.157	7.315	109.718	0.176	3.633	9.054	81.263	78.829	0.446	0.073	0.006	19.980	9.002	12.299	0.103	·	1.580
		1.1.5. Other reserve assets			-465	-7	-38	0	0	0	-126	0	0	1	0	-6	-300	1	10	0	·	0
			1.1.5.1. Of which financial derivatives		-466	-7	-38	0	0	0	-126	0	0	0	0	-6	-300	1	10	0	·	0
	1.2. Other foreign currency assets				187,260	26,642	37,874	39,065	7,351	1,095	4,425	33,392	7,158	668	10,569	336	10,654	4,283	549	406	-	2,792
		1.2.1. Securities not included in official reserve assets			10,745	0	44	0	38	38	0	8,056	598	212	0	81	-	441	0	375	-	862
		1.2.2. Deposits not included in official reserve assets			177,152	26,715	38,031	39,065	7,312	790	4,479	25,335	6,553	470	10,784	268	10,922	3,878	549	39	-	1,962
		1.2.3. Loans not included in official reserve assets			286	0	0	0	0	279	0	0	7	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	-	0
		1.2.4. Financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets			-923	-73	-201	0	0	-12	-54	0	0	-13	-215	-13	-268	-36	0	-7	-	-31
2. Predetermined short-term net drains on foreign currency assets (nominal value)
	2.1. Foreign currency loans, securities and deposits				-38,083	-5,593	-29,364	-3	-	-12	0	0	-479	-12	-461	-60	-2,098	·	0	0	·	0
	2.2. Aggregate short and long position in forwards and futures in foreign currencies vis-à-vis the domestic currency (including the forward leg of currency swaps)				-128,414	-16,790	-9,837	-39,065	-7,312	-780	-6,868	-15,522	-5,362	-454	-10,572	-596	-8,400	-4,145	0	-776	·	-1,936
	2.3. Other				-18,817	-2,327	-2,532	-2,061	0	0	-69	-10,773	-67	-5	0	0	-228	-585	0	-170	·	0

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