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  • Raised reporting thresholds

    To reduce the burden on households and small and medium-sized enterprises in particular, reporting thresholds are to be raised. This means that a general reporting requirement shall apply only for transactions valued above €50,000.

    This does not apply to the following: Payments in foreign travel and interest, dividend and income payments to non-residents on domestic securities (Section 67 of AWV). 

    For FDI stocks and stocks of assets/liabilities (Section 66 of AWV), the reporting threshold will now be set at €6 million (sections 64 and 65 of AWV)

    shall apply as of the reporting month January 2025 / balance sheet year 2025

    Comparison of reporting thresholds

     Reporting 
    threshold up to 
    reporting month December 2024 / balance sheet year 2024
    Reporting threshold (NEW) as of reporting month January 2025 / balance sheet year 2025
    Payments pursuant to section 67 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)

    €12,500 

    €50,000

    Payments pursuant to section 67 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)

    • Receipts from and expenditure on maritime shipping

    -

    €50,000

    Special reporting requirements for credit institutions pursuant to Section 70 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)

    • Interest, dividend and income payments to non-residents on domestic securities
    • Payments of foreign travel: card transactions

    -

    -

    Stock reports on external claims and liabilities pursuant to section 66 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)

    €5 million

    €6 million

    Stock reports on cross-border equity investments pursuant to sections 64 and 65 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)

    €3 million

    €6 million

     

  • Annexes replaced with tables

    The existing annexes 3 to 19 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation are to be replaced with tables containing relevant variables. 

    The current plan is to make these tables available via the newly developed general statistics reporting portal (Allgemeines Meldeportal Statistik – AMS) starting at the end of 2025. If you submit your reports in XML format, you will not need to make any changes until summer 2026 – you may continue to use the old format. From summer 2025, we will make new, optional XML templates available based on the new tables. These can already be used optionally in a transition period before they become obligatory in summer 2026. 

    The documentation of the new XML schemas as well as the start and end of the transition period will be published in a newsletter and on the Bundesbank’s website.

    Comparison tables containing relevant variables

    Tables with relevant reporting requirementsAnnexes to the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (old version)
    Annex 2 DIREKA1Annex K3 
    Annex 3 DIREKA2Annex K4 
    Annex 4 AUSWIB1Annex Z5, Z5a sheet 1 and sheet 2, Z5b
    Annex 5 ZABILC1

    Annex Z4 (Incoming and outgoing payments for services, transfers, capital flows, merchanting and other trade in goods which are not reported on other official forms),

    Annexes Z8, Z11, Z14, Z15

    Annex 6 ZABILC2Annex Z10 (Securities and financial derivatives transactions with non-residents)
    Annex 7 ZABILC3Annex Z12 (Incoming and outgoing payments in foreign travel: credit and debit card turnover)
  • Changes to reporting travel payments

    Payments in foreign travel (foreign currency and foreign traveller’s cheques) are exempt from reporting requirements (affecting codes 010 and 011). 

    Section 70 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV) has been amended.

    shall apply as of the reporting month January 2025

  • Changes to reporting receipts from and expenditure on maritime shipping

    Section 69 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV) has been repealed. Maritime shipping receipts from residents are exempt from reporting requirements. Income from foreigners and payments to foreigners are reporting pursuant to Section 67 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV). The reporting threshold of €50,000 applies. 

    shall apply as of the reporting month January 2025

  • Harmonised reporting dates

    To simplify the process of meeting reporting deadlines, reporting dates are to be harmonised. From the reporting month January 2025, the 7th working day shall be the sole reporting date for transaction reports, regardless of the type of transaction. From 1 January 2025, the sole reporting date for reports on stocks of assets/liabilities shall be the 10th working day. The reporting date for derivative financial instruments will be standardised to the 50th working day at the end of the quarter.

    shall apply as of the reporting month January 2025

    Comparison of reporting dates

    (KT = Kalendertag (calendar day) (WD = working day)

     Reporting date up to December 2024Reporting date as of January 2025
    AUSWIB1

    Z5 10th KT

    Z5a 20th KT

    10th WD

    Z5b 50th KT

    50th WD

    ZABILC1 (Z4, Z8, Z11, Z14, Z15)

    Z4 7th KT

    Z8 7th KT

    Z11 5th KT

    Z14 5th KT

    Z15 5th KT

    7th WD

    ZABILC2 (Z10)

    5th KT

    ZABILC3 (Z12)

    5th KT

    DIREKA1 und DIREKA2

    no amendment

  • Required fields for reporting residents’ assets abroad

    Previously optional fields concerning key data on German investors (balance-sheet total, annual turnover and number of employees) will become required fields. This is in accordance with international requirements and serves to improve the accuracy in the collection and analysis of the economic activities of German enterprises. 

  • Metrics for crypto-assets

    Given the growing relevance of crypto-assets, new metrics will be introduced to enable their accurate allocation and reporting. Further information on the metrics can be found on the code list on our homepage.

    the new metrics shall be effective from January 2025

    If technical adjustments are necessary, point 2 “Annexes replaced with tables and electronic submission” must be observed. If the previous metrics are used on crypto-assets during the transition period, (139, 239) must continue to be submitted until the report with the new metrics has been submitted.

    Income from foreigners and payments to foreigners are reporting pursuant to Section 67 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV) with the reporting requirement annex 6 ZABILC2. The reporting threshold of €50,000 applies. 

    New metrics for crypto-assets

     

    Code

    Voucher type
    Crypto-assets and digital assets without corresponding liabilities

    804

    3 or 4

    Foreign crypto-assets and digital assets with liabilities

    814

    3 or 4

    Domestic crypto-assets and digital assets with liabilities

    824

    3 or 4

    Non-fungible Token (NFT)

    834

    3 or 4

    Further information on the key figures can be found in the directories.

    • Code lists
  • Technical change: Character set

    Reports submitted in XML format will support all standard characters under DIN 91379 encoded using UTF-8 or Unicode Normalisation Form C (NFC).

     

     

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