April 2026

4 May 2026

External communication

ECB Annual Report 2025

On 17 April 2026 the Governing Council adopted the ECB’s Annual Report 2025, which was presented to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament and made available on the ECB’s website on 4 May 2026, in 23 of the official languages of the European Union.

Market operations

Amending Decision on the remuneration of holdings of excess reserves and of certain deposits

On 26 March 2026 the Governing Council adopted Decision ECB/2026/10 amending Decision (EU) 2019/1743 on the remuneration of holdings of excess reserves and of certain deposits (ECB/2019/31). The amending Decision legally implements the policy decision taken by the Governing Council on 11 December 2025 to simplify the remuneration of excess reserves (reserve holdings that exceed the amount of minimum reserves required in accordance with Regulation ECB/2021/1) held by eligible monetary policy counterparties in their reserve…