Amendments to the reporting system
Below is an overview of previous amendments to the external reporting system.
Amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation – Entry into force January 2025 –
The amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV) entering into force from 1 January 2025, which shall apply as of the reporting month January 2025.
Please note the most important new regulations:
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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 at €50,000 or above.
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
Comparison of reporting thresholds
Reporting
threshold up to
reporting month December 2024Reporting threshold (NEW) as of reporting month January 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
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€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
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Stock reports on external claims and liabilities €5 million
€6 million
Stock reports on cross-border equity investments €3 million
€6 million
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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 from mid-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 requirements Annexes to the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (old version) Annex 2 DIREKA1 Annex K3 Annex 3 DIREKA2 Annex K4 Annex 4 AUSWIB1 Annex 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 ZABILC2 Annex Z10 (Securities and financial derivatives transactions with non-residents) Annex 7 ZABILC3 Annex Z12 (Incoming and outgoing payments in foreign travel: credit and debit card turnover) -
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
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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
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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 2024 Reporting 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
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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.
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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.
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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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Amended code lists
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