30.11.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 33221 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 13 November 2006 establishing a Committee on monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics (Codified version) (2006/856/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (2), Whereas: (1)  Council Decision 91/115/EEC of 25 February 1991 establishing a Committee on monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics (}) has been substantially amended (%). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Decision should be codified. (2)  There is a need to establish, as a section of the multi- annual statistical programme of the Commission, a multiannual work programme in the field of monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics. (3) By Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom of 19 June 1989 establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes 97 E, 22.4.2004, p. 68. 10, 14.1.2004, p. 27. L 59, 6.3.1991, p. 19. Decision as amended by Decision 96/174[EC (O] L 51, 1.3.1996, p. 48). () See Annex I NN of the European Communities (°) the Council set up a Committee on the Statistical Programme of the European Communities, comprising representatives of the Member States’ statistical institutes, to ensure close cooperation between Member States and the Commission whilst the statistical programme is established. In Member States monetary and banking statistics are drawn up by central banks, and financial and balance of payments statistics are drawn up by various insti- tutions, including central banks. It is necessary, in order to achieve close cooperation between Member States and the Commission in the fields of monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics that the Commission be assisted, in drawing up and implementing the multiannual work programme relating to such statistics, by a Committee composed of representatives of the principal national institutions concerned. Having regard to the specific role played in the Member States by the aforementioned institutions, it is necessary to allow the committee to choose its chairman. There is, from the point of view of statistics, a close interdependence between the monetary, financial and balance of payments areas on the one hand, and certain other areas of economic statistics on the other hand. () O] L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.