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2. Cooperation between Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank
The Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank have been cooperating
for decades on various fields of balance of payments. From conceptual or
methodological issues to resorption of asymmetries, both institutions have
been working together to improve their common knowledge by sharing their
understanding and experiences. This cooperation is managed at various levels:
senior managers or technical experts meet regularly to enhance their
collaboration.
The organisation of the cooperation on MNEs mainly relies on two parallel
work streams dealing with common topics but analysed under different
perspectives. The outcomes of the two work streams are merged at the end of
the process in order to have a comprehensive view of MNEs activities and their
recording in the relevant statistics, notwithstanding the fact that interactions
between the two work streams can happen.

The inter-institutional work stream
The first work stream called “the inter-institutional work stream” deals with
conceptual, methodological and compilation topics. It is constituted of experts
from different statistical institutions such as the National Statistical Institutes
(NSI), National Central Banks (NCB) and the Ministerial Statistical Department
of the French customs and indirect taxation authority. Experts from the NSI
come from three statistical areas: NA, FTS and Enterprise Statistics.
This inter-institutional work stream meets at two levels: a national level and
at an international one. The national level meetings are designed to exchange
views on the organisation of the MNEs, to share information on the current
reporting, to identify problems and specific reporting practices as well as to
clarify the statistical treatment acknowledging the conceptual background. At
the beginning of the process, it appeared that each institution had its own
comprehension of the MNEs, based on the data it collected. The data reported
are usually analysed focusing on the needs of the specific

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