February 13, 2012, 06:18 CET
Reports via ExtraNet
General information
ExtraNet gives you the option of submitting your reports electronically. This saves time and simplifies the reporting procedure. To protect your sensitive data, however, you are required to register so that each user can be entered into the two-step code system (user ID and password).
Initial registration
Click on the link below to apply for user registration. Please enter your 8-digit firm number (including check-digit) in the relevant field. If you have not yet submitted a foreign trade and payments form, you must first contact the relevant specialist department of the Deutsche Bundesbank to obtain a firm number.
Please indicate the function “Submission of Z 5 and/or Z 5a reports” in the appropriate field. Click on “Continue” to go to the user profile. Please answer all questions marked with a red asterisk; where an address is required, please do not enter the personal address of the user but that of the enterprise required to report. More than one user should be registered so that it is easier to replace users in the case of absence. The “Complete registration” button is used to finalise the procedure. The download procedure allows you to print out the registration form and send it signed to the Deutsche Bundesbank (see address on sheet 1). On your application, a user ID (8-digit alpha code) will already have been generated for each user. A PIN letter containing an additional password for each user will be posted to you. The user ID and password together authorise you to submit your reports electronically. The various types of report and report forms are listed under Information on the file structure.
If you are submitting reports for more than one enterprise subject to reporting requirements, the initial registration is only necessary for one single member of the affected reporting population. The user ID and password also authorise you to send files for the other institutions required to report. However, on legal grounds, for every non-registered company an “authorisation form” must be completed. Please fill this in, sign it and return it to us.
Registered users
Within the user domain, you may view and change your personal registration data. You may also delete your user ID. If you are already registered because you participate in the ExtraNet electronic reporting procedure for submitting other reports in foreign trade and payments (eg Z 4 reports), then you can extend your current legitimacy in order to submit Z 5/Z 5a reports.
Emergency help
Please contact us if you have forgotten your password or have entered it incorrectly three times in succession.
Submission of reports
If you want to send your Z 5/Z 5a reports via ExtraNet, please call up the sending template below. After clicking on the "Forward" button, the template appears for your username/user ID and your password (case sensitive). Once you have been authorised, the template will explain all the subsequent steps.
Information regarding the file structure
The following formats and Excel applications are available for submissions via ExtraNet.
- Z 5/Z 5a reports in Excel format
- Z 5/Z 5a reporting data from SAP software
- Z 5/Z 5a reporting data in the record format defined by the Bundesbank
- Z 5/Z 5a/Z 5b reporting data in XML format
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