Euro Area

• Euro area
  • Accreditation procedures for manufacturers of euro-secure items and euro items
  • Strengthening economic and monetary union
  • Recent initiatives to strengthen economic and monetary union
  • Implementation of the Eurosystem monetary policy framework
  • Greater fiscal coordination for the euro area
  • Euro area economic policy recommendations for 2016-2017
  • EU economic and monetary union
• The euro
  • 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area
  • The euro - Europe’s common currency
  • Cross-border transportation of euro cash by road
  • Adopting the euro — The euro in practice
    • Conversion rates between national currencies and the euro
    • Issue of euro coins
    • Exchange rate mechanism between the euro and other participating national currencies
    • Euro adoption
  • Convergence Reports — progress of non-euro area countries on meeting euro adoption criteria
    • Convergence report 2018
    • Convergence Report 2020 of the European Commission
• Economic and monetary union (EMU) — key institutions
  • Council of the European Union – role in EMU
    • Economic and Financial Committee
    • The EU’s Economic Policy Committee
  • Eurogroup (meetings of the euro area finance ministers)
    • The Euro Group
  • European Commission – role in EMU
    • The role of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs — DG ECFIN
  • European Central Bank (ECB) – role in EMU
    • European Central Bank economic and monetary data gathering
    • The European Central Bank (ECB)
    • Statistics on the money markets
    • Terms and conditions for European Anti-Fraud Office investigations of the European Central Bank
    • Voting arrangements in the ECB's Governing Council
    • Minimum reserves
    • European Central Bank — Close cooperation within the Single Supervisory Mechanism with non-euro EU countries
• Counterfeiting, fraud & the euro
  • Combating counterfeiting of the euro (Pericles 2020)
  • Combating counterfeiting of the euro (Pericles IV)
  • Counterfeiting & fraud – Europol & European Central Bank agreement
  • Copyright protection of the design for the common face of euro coins
  • Criminal penalties for currency counterfeiting
  • Euro authenticity checks
  • Medals and tokens similar to euro coins
  • Non-cash payments — combating fraud and counterfeiting
  • Protecting the euro against counterfeiting — European Technical and Scientific Centre
  • Protecting the euro against counterfeiting – Europol
  • Protection of the euro against counterfeiting
  • System for protecting the euro against counterfeiting
• The euro as a world currency
  • Exchange rate matters and monetary agreements with the euro area