The Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) was established by a Council Decision in 1991 (91/115/EEC) to assist the European Commission in drawing up and implementing work programmes concerning monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics. In recent years, the CMFB had played an important advisory role in the statistical issues related to Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) decisions. The CMFB is the forum for co-ordination of statisticians from the national statistical institutes and Eurostat on the one hand, and the national central banks and the European Central Bank on the other.
2026-09-03 - Main conclusions from the CMFB workshop 'Better, faster, cost-effective? Leveraging innovation in official statistics' on 30 June 2026 (link)
2026-06-26 - CMFB Opinion on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 on Community statistics concerning balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment (link)
2026-06-26 - ESS – ESCB quality assessment report on statistics underlying the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure, 2026 edition (digital version ; pdf download)
2026-05-27 - CMFB Opinion on a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (ESA 2030) (link)
2025-11-05 - Conclusions and list of actions from the CMFB plenary meeting of 26-27 June 2025 (link)
2025-09-04 - CMFB opinion on an amendment to the questionnaire related to the EDP Notification Tables (EDP Annex 3) concerning Table 7.3 'Defence expenditure') (link)
2025-07-07 - 2025 Quality assessment report on statistics underlying the MIP Scoreboard (link)
2025-05-19 - Conclusions and list of actions from the CMFB plenary meeting of 30-31 January 2025 (link)