Circular Letter ST.25-0026 — 2024 Foreign Direct Investment Survey

bcl
BANQUE CENTRALE DU LUXEMBOURG
EUROSYSTEM

Ref.: ST.25-0026
Luxembourg, 28 February 2025
Circular Letter

To all credit institutions and to the
Post and Telecommunications company services

Subject: 2024 Foreign Direct Investment Surveys

Dear Sirs, Madams,

In accordance with the provisions of the single article of the law of 28 June 2000 amending the Grand-Ducal Regulation of 10 November 1944 as amended, relating to exchange control, the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) and the Central Service for Statistics and Economic Studies (STATEC) are jointly responsible for the compilation of the balance of payments and the global external position of Luxembourg. Paragraph 1 of the single article of the aforementioned law indicates, among other things, that STATEC is responsible for the foreign direct investment surveys. Within the framework of the collaboration between these two institutions, the BCL is responsible for statistical data collection from credit institutions and the Post and Telecommunications company.

The foreign direct investment surveys concern all direct investment relationships that respondents have established in their capacity as subsidiaries, affiliated companies or branches of a non-resident investor or with their own subsidiaries, affiliated companies or branches established abroad.

The questionnaires and the explanatory notes relating thereto can therefore be downloaded, in French and English, from the following link:

https://www.bcl.lu/fr/reporting_reglementaire/Etablissements_credit/Bal-paiem-et-pos_ext-glob/Instructions/Enquete-annuelle-IDE/index.html

In the event of any discrepancy between the French and English texts, the French version shall prevail.
Completed questionnaires must be submitted by 20 June 2025.

2, boulevard Royal • L-2983 Luxembourg • E-mail: reporting.bop@bcl.lu

bcl
BANQUE CENTRALE DU LUXEMBOURG
EUROSYSTEM

If your institution experiences delays, we invite you to inform us before this date, by a duly justified letter.

The documents relating to the survey can be submitted to the BCL by the following transmission methods:

• preferably by secure means using the electronic transmission means made available by SOFIE (OTX channel) or E-file (various correspondence).
  In this case, the following file name structure must be strictly respected:

OTXREP-B0nnn-BOP_IDE_2024_B0nnn_20250620_001.xls

where nnn corresponds to the BCL number of the reporting credit institution.

• by email (unsecured transmission) to
  reporting.banques@bcl.lu by mentioning in the subject line: BCL No – FDI 2024.

The reporting relating to the survey must be submitted in MS Excel file format. Unless prior agreement is obtained, other file formats will no longer be accepted.

For any information regarding the application of this circular, Mr. Romain Scholer (tel. 4774 4583) will be at your disposal.

Please accept, Sirs, Madams, the assurance of our perfect consideration.

BANQUE CENTRALE DU LUXEMBOURG

Xavier Hornick
Section Head
Banks

Roland Nockels
Head of Department
Statistics

2, boulevard Royal • L-2983 Luxembourg • E-mail: reporting.bop@bcl.lu