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Summary of the Outcomes of the Committee’s Discussion

Asymmetries in Balance of Payments Statistics

• United Kingdom Current Account Asymmetries with the European Union (BOPCOM-05/72)

Direct Investment

• Update on Feasibility Study on Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (BOPCOM-05/3)
• 2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-05/4)
• 2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the OECD (BOPCOM-05/5)

External Debt, IIP, and International Financial Statistics

• External Debt and IIP: Developments of Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-05/11)
• New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM – 05/71)

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)

• HIPC and Exceptional Financing in the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/10)

Implementation of BPM5

• Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund April 2006

Investment Income/Accrued Income

• Summary of outcomes of the Committee e-deliberations on interest on index-linked instruments

Merchandise Trade

• Summary of outcomes of the Committee’s e-deliberations on merchanting

Nonpermanent Workers and Remittances

• Remittances: Progress on Methodology and Compilation Guide (BOPCOM – 05/08)
• Definition of Personal Remittances in the Balance of Payments Context (BOPCOM – 05/9)
• Definition of Universe for the Framework on the Movement of Persons (BOPCOM – 05/9A)
• Institutional and Total Remittances (BOPCOM-05/9B)

Portfolio Investment

• 2001-2003 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey results: (BOPCOM-05/6)
• Centralized Securities Database (BOPCOM-05/7)

Services

• Summary of outcomes of the Committee deliberations on the travel item (BOPCOM-05/16) and trade in services classification paper (BOPCOM-05/14A)
• Revision of the CPC and Relationships to EBOPS (BOPCOM-05/13)
• Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (BOPCOM-05/14)
• Balance of Payments Classification of Services: AEG paper (BOPCOM-05/14A)
• Linkages between Balance of Payments and Tourism Satellite Account (BOPCOM-05/15)
• Travel: Implications of the Technical Sub-group’s Position for the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/16)

Updating BPM5 and Other Related Macroeconomic Statistical Manuals

Progress reports

• Overview of the Work on the update of BPM5 (BOPCOM-05/17)
• Update of the 1993 SNA (BOPCOM-05/18)
• Report of discussions of second meeting of the Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts on issues submitted by the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/19)
• Summary of discussions of the Second Meeting of the Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts Summary of Outcome of AEG’s Discussion (BOPCOM-05/19A)

Outcome papers and other methodological papers on direct investment

• Draft Summary Record of the April 2005 Meeting of the OECD’s Workshop on International Investment Statistics (BOPCOM-05/45)
• Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: DITEG issue #1A (BOPCOM-05/46)
• Purchased Goodwill and Marketing Assets: Australian Bureau of Statistics (BOPCOM-05/47)
• Reverse Investment and Directional Principle: DITEG issues #7 and #8 (BOPCOM-05/48)
• Permanent Debt: DITEG issue #14 (BOPCOM-05/49)
• Indirect Direct Investment Relationships: DITEG issue #3 (BOPCOM-05/50)
• Ultimate beneficial owner/Ultimate destination: DITEG issue #12 (BOPCOM-05/51)
• A Different Way of Presenting FDI Statistics: Eurostat (BOPCOM-05/52)
• SPEs and Holding Companies: BOPTEG issue #9B, DITEG issues #9 (BOPCOM-05/53)
• SPEs and nonfinancial DIEs: DITEG issue #11 (BOPCOM-05/53A)
• Principles for Classification by Industry: DITEG #27 (BOPCOM-05/54)
• Nonresidents SPVs Linked to General Government: Task Force on Harmonization of Public Sector Accounts (BOPCOM-05/55)
• Land and Building Owned by Nonresidents: DITEG issue #15 (BOPCOM-05/56)
• Maturity and Instrument Split: DITEG issue #16 (BOPCOM-05/57)
• Definition of Direct Investment Terms: DITEG issue #20 (BOPCOM-05/58)
• Direct Investment Stocks: Financial versus Economic Measurement: DITEG issue #24 (BOPCOM-05/59)
• Mutual Funds: DITEG issue #30 (BOPCOM-05/60)
• Round Tripping: DITEG issue #13 (BOPCOM-05/61)
• Banking: DITEG issue #21 (BOPCOM-05/62)
• Intercompany Remittances: DITEG issue #21A (BOPCOM-05/63)
• Shipping: DITEG issue #21B (BOPCOM-05/64)
• Natural resource exploration and construction: DITEG issue #21C (BOPCOM-05/65)
• Direct Investment: Other Capital: DITEG issue #22 (BOPCOM-05/66)
• Transactions with Fellow Enterprises: DITEG issue#23 (BOPCOM-05/67)

Outcome papers and other methodological papers on other issues on balance of payments

• Results of Electronic Consultation with Committee Members on Various Issues from the Annotated Outline for the Revision of the Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition (BOPCOM-05/17A)
• Activation of Guarantees: BOPTEG issue #2 (BOPCOM-05/20)
• Granting of guarantees in an updated SNA: Paper from Task Force on Harmonization of Public Sector Accounts (BOPCOM-05/20A)
• Goods for Processing: BOPTEG issue #14B (BOPCOM-05/21)
• Goods sent abroad for processing  (BOPCOM-05/21A)
• Merchanting: AEG issue #41: BOPTEG issue #16A (BOPCOM-05/22)
• Classification of Financial Instruments: BOPTEG issue #28 (BOPCOM-05/23)
• Financial Gold: BOPTEG issue #27, 27A, 27B and 27C (BOPCOM-05/24)
• Distinction Between Deposits and Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics: BOPTEG issue #30 (BOPCOM-05/25)
• Fee on securities lending and reversible gold transactions: BOPTEG issue #21 (BOPCOM-05/26)
• Residence of Households: Ships’ crew and patients (BOPCOM-05/27)
• Untraded Securities and Formerly Traded Securities: BOPTEG issue #12 (BOPCOM-05/28)
• Treatment of Nonperforming Loans: (BOPCOM-05/29)
• Traded loans—Criteria to Become Securities: BOPTEG issue #13 (BOPCOM-05/30)
• Debt Instruments Indexed to a Foreign Currency: BOPTEG issue #25 (BOPCOM-05/31)
• Interest and Index-linked Debt Instruments: BOPTEG issue #26 (BOPCOM-05/32)
• Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds: BOPTEG issue #19 (BOPCOM-05/33)
• Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds: Paper by Eurostat and ECB on BOPTEG issue #19 (BOPCOM-05/33A)
• Reinvested Earnings: BOPTEG issue #18, DITEG issues #5A and 5B (BOPCOM-05/34)
• Migrants’ Transfers (BOPCOM-05/35)
• Technical Assistance: BOPTEG issue #22 (BOPCOM-05/36)
• The Production of Financial Corporations and Price/Volume Split of Financial Services And Non-Life Insurance Services (BOPCOM-05/37)
• Government/Public Sector/Private Sector Delineation Issues (BOPCOM-05/39)
• Originals and copies (BOPCOM-05/40)
• Databases (BOPCOM-05/41)
• Specifying Criteria and Indicators to Split Units under Joint Sovereignty/Jurisdiction and Multiterritory Enterprises (BOPCOM-05/43)
• Measurement of the Activities of Multinational Enterprises (BOPCOM-05/43A)
• Reverse transactions (BOPCOM-05/44)
• Valuation of Real Estate: DITEG issue #25 (BOPCOM-05/68)
• Currency Union Technical Expert Group: Summary Paper (BOPCOM-05/69)
• Revision of BPM5: Issues on International Reserves (BOPCOM-05/70)
• New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics: Report by BIS (BOPCOM-05/71)
• Extending the asset boundary to include research and development: OECD (BOPCOM-05/73)

Other issues related to the revision of BPM5

• Unmet Needs of Fund Users for Balance of Payments Statistics: Proposals for the Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BOPCOM-05/74)
• Trends and Recent Developments in Foreign Direct Investments (BOPCOM-05/75)
• Assessment of User Needs Regarding Foreign Direct Investment (BOPCOM-05/76)