Annual review by the Commission of Member States’ annual activity reports on export credits in the sense of Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011

Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 on the application of certain guidelines in the field of officially supported export credits and repealing Council Decisions 2001/76 EC and 2001/77/EC foresees in its Annex I that Member States shall make available to the Commission an Annual Activity Report in order to step up transparency at Union's level. The Commission shall produce an annual review for the European Parliament based on this information.

The present annual review covers the calendar year 2013. As regards the scope of this exercise, it concerns export credit activities in the sense of Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011, i.e. "medium and long term" transactions with a repayment period of 2 years or more. This review does neither cover short term export credit transactions nor activities carried out by certain Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) outside the field of export credits (such as insurance of investments). It also has to be noted that in the case of some Member States, the function of Export Credit Agency is performed by an insurance company operating under a public mandate. In such cases, the managing of the public export credit program is strictly separated from the private sector activities (the latter are of course not subject of the present review).

The Commission has taken note of the Resolution adopted on 2 July 2013 by the European Parliament on the first reporting exercise under Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011. Bearing in mind the recommendations contained in this Resolution – such as the recommendation to the Council Working Group on Export Credits and the Commission to consult with the European External Action Service on further developing the reporting methodology – the Commission has also turned the particular attention of Member States to this Resolution in view of subsequent reporting exercises.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2015)130: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:130:FIN

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