7.11.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 297/73 REGULATION (EU) No 1073/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK of 18 October 2013 concerning statistics on the assets and liabilities of investment funds (recast) (ECB/2013/38) THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular Article 5 thereof, 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 Articles 5(1) and 6(4), Having regard to the opinion of the European Commission, Whereas: 1 Since Regulation (EC) No 958/2007 of the European Central Bank of 27 July 2007 concerning statistics on the assets and liabilities of investment funds (ECB/2007/8) (%) needs to be substantially amended, in particular in the light of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (%), it should be recast in the interests of clarity. Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 provides in Article 2(1) that, for the fulfilment of its statistical reporting require- ments, the European Central Bank (ECB), assisted by the national central banks (NCBs), has 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 (ESCB). It follows from Article 2(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 that investment funds (IFs) form part of the reference reporting population for the purposes of fulfilling the ECB’s statistical reporting requirements, inter alia, in the field of monetary and financial statistics. Furthermore, Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 requires the ECB to specify the actual reporting popu- lation within the limits of the reference reporting popu- lation and entitles it to fully or partly exempt specific classes of reporting agents from its statistical reporting requirements. In order to fulfil its tasks and monitor financial activities other than those undertaken by monetary financial insti- tutions (MFIs), the ESCB requires high quality statistical 318, 27.11.1998, p. 8. 0J L 0] L 211, 11.8.2007, p. 8. 0J L 174, 26.6.2013, p. 1. information on the business of IFs. The principal purpose of such information is to provide the ECB with a comprehensive statistical picture of the IF sector in the Member States whose currency is the euro (hereinafter the ‘euro area Member States’), which are viewed as one economic territory. To limit the reporting burden, NCBs are allowed to collect the necessary information on IFs from the actual reporting population as part of a broader statistical reporting framework which serves other statistical purposes, provided that the fulfilment of the ECB's stat- istical requirements is not jeopardised. In order to foster transparency, in such cases it is appropriate to inform the reporting agents that data are collected to fulfil other statistical purposes. Having data available on financial transactions facilitates a more in-depth analysis for monetary policy and other purposes. Data on financial transactions, as well as data on stocks, are also used to compile other statistics, in particular the euro area financial accounts. Although regulations adopted under Article 34.1 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the European Central Bank (hereinafter the ‘Statute of the ESCB) do not confer any rights or impose any obligations on Member States whose currency is not the euro (hereinafter the ‘non-euro area Member States’), Article 5 of the Statute of the ESCB applies to both euro and non-euro area Member States. Recital 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 refers to the fact that Article 5 of the Statute of the ESCB, together with Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union, implies an obligation to design and implement at national level all the measures that the non-euro area Member States consider appropriate to collect the statistical information needed to fulfil the ECB's statistical reporting requirements and make timely preparations in the field of statistics in order to become euro area Member States. Although this Regulation is primarily addressed to IFs, complete information on holders of bearer shares issued by IFs may not be directly available from IFs, and it is therefore necessary to include other entities in the actual reporting population. The standards for the protection and use of confidential statistical information as laid down in Article 8 of Regu- lation (EC) No 2533/98 should apply.