L 184/12 Official Journal of the European Union 6.7.2006 REGULATION (EC) No 1027/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK of 14 June 2006 on statistical reporting requirements in respect of post office giro institutions that receive deposits from non-monetary financial institution euro area residents (ECB/2006/8) THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (), and in particular Article 5(1) and Article 6(4) thereof, Whereas: Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 provides in Article 2(1) that, for the fulfilment of its statistical reporting requirements, the European Central Bank (ECB), assisted by the national central banks (NCBs), shall have the right to collect statistical information within the limits of the reference reporting population and of what is necessary to carry out the tasks of the European System of Central Banks. Article 2(2)(b) further provides that post office giro institutions (POGIs) are part of the reference reporting population, to the extent necessary to fulfil the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements in, inter alia, the field of money and banking statistics. Regulation (EC) No 2423/2001 of the European Central Bank of 22 November 2001 concerning the consolidated balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (ECB/2001/13) (?) was adopted on the basis of Regu- lation (EC) No 2533/98. Under Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2423/2001 (ECB/2001/13), the actual reporting population consists of the monetary financial institutions (MFIs) resident in the territory of the participating Member States. The euro area monetary aggregates and their coun- terparts are derived mainly from the MFI balance sheet data collected under Regulation (EC) No 24232001 (ECB/2001/13). However, the euro area monetary aggregates include not only monetary liabilities of MFIs vis-a-vis non-MFI euro area residents excluding central government but also monetary liabilities of central government vis-d-vis non-MFl euro area residents excluding central government. Therefore, supplementary statistical information on central government deposit () OJ L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 8. (®» OJ L 333, 17.12.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 2181/2004 (ECB[2004/21) (O] L 371, 18.12.2004, p. 42). liabilities and central government holdings of cash and securities issued by MEFIs is currently collected under Guideline ECB[2003/2 of 6 February 2003 concerning certain  statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank and the procedures for reporting by the national central banks of statistical information in the field of money and banking statistics (3). (4)  In some of the participating Member States, POGIs no longer belong to the central government sector under the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community (the ESA 95) (%), and they are not limited to receiving deposits solely on behalf of their national Treasuries, but may receive deposits on their own account. It is therefore no longer possible for statistical information on such deposits to be reported within the framework of Guideline ECB/2003/2. (5)  POGIs that receive deposits are in this respect performing similar activities to those performed by MFIs. Both types of entity should therefore be subject to similar statistical reporting requirements in so far as such requirements are relevant to their business. (6)  To ensure such harmonised treatment and to safeguard the availability of statistical information on deposits received by POGIs, it is necessary to adopt a new regu- lation that imposes reporting requirements on these entities, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation: — the terms ‘participating Member State’, ‘reporting agents’ and ‘resident’ have the same meaning as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98; () OJ L 241, 26.9.2003, p. 1. Guideline as last amended by Guideline ECBJ2005/4 (O] L 109, 29.4.2005, p. 6). As adopted by the Council of the European Union in its Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community (O] L 310, 30.11.1996, p. 1). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1267/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (O] L 180, 18.7.2003, p. 1). = .