January 2025

31 January 2025

External communication

Translation of ECB Economic Bulletin boxes

On 19 December 2024 the Governing Council approved new arrangements for translating the boxes of the Economic Bulletin into euro area languages whereby the national central banks responsible will decide on a voluntary basis whether or not to translate them. This decision takes into account the evolving nature of the content of these boxes and aligns their translation regime with the one applicable to articles. The new arrangements, which remain compliant with the ECB’s statutory reporting obligations, will be applicable from Issue 1/2025 of the Economic Bulletin.

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Introduction of a harmonised framework for statistical in-house credit assessment systems

On 19 December 2024 the Governing Council approved a harmonised framework for national central banks’ statistical in-house credit assessment systems (S-ICASs). Most S-ICASs were introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic…