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Assets<br />
December 31, <strong>2004</strong> December 31, 2003<br />
EUR EUR<br />
1 Gold and gold receivables 3,179,012,958.74 3,372,242,953.48<br />
2 Claims on non-euro area residents<br />
denominated in foreign currency 5,589,745,328.36 6,535,718,790.90<br />
2.1 Receivables from the IMF 722,997,433.49 1,003,176,673.28<br />
2.2 Balances with banks and security investments,<br />
external loans and other external assets 4,866,747,894.87 5,532,542,117.62<br />
3 Claims on euro area residents<br />
denominated in foreign currency 746,608,748.13 876,766,003.17<br />
4 Claims on non-euro area residents<br />
denominated in euro 617,603,102.40 827,413,460.35<br />
4.1 Balances with banks, security investments and loans 617,603,102.40 827,413,460.35<br />
4.2 Claims arising from the credit facility under ERM II Ñ Ñ<br />
5 Lending to euro area credit institutions related<br />
to monetary policy operations denominated in euro 8,853,559,167.Ñ 2,896,906,773.Ñ<br />
5.1 Main refinancing operations 8,029,000,000.Ñ 2,414,278,263.Ñ<br />
5.2 Longer-term refinancing operations 824,559,167.Ñ 482,628,510.Ñ<br />
5.3 Fine-tuning reverse operations Ñ Ñ<br />
5.4 Structural reverse operations Ñ Ñ<br />
5.5 Marginal lending facility Ñ Ñ<br />
5.6 Credits related to margin calls Ñ Ñ<br />
6 Other claims on euro area credit institutions<br />
denominated in euro 136,214.40 108,785.47<br />
7 Securities of euro area residents denominated in euro 3,085,653,396.16 1,862,961,571.09<br />
8 General government debt denominated in euro 362,922,577.16 368,843,680.31<br />
9 Intra-Eurosystem claims 4,148,728,298.24 2,829,032,357.67<br />
9.1 Participating interest in the ECB 116,475,959.82 117,970,000.Ñ<br />
9.2 Claims equivalent to the transfer of foreign reserves<br />
9.3 Claims related to promissory notes backing the issuance<br />
1,157,451,203.42 1,179,700,000.Ñ<br />
of ECB debt certificates 1<br />
9.4 Net claims related to the allocation of euro banknotes<br />
x x<br />
within the Eurosystem 2,874,801,135.Ñ Ñ<br />
9.5 Other claims within the Eurosystem (net) Ñ 1,531,362,357.67<br />
10 Items in course of settlement 90,938,617.90 88,458,230.92<br />
11 Other assets 8,908,155,713.87 9,614,454,782.05<br />
11.1 Coins of euro area 210,722,512.58 265,217,658.85<br />
11.2 Tangible and intangible fixed assets 163,644,100.60 158,410,572.90<br />
11.3 Other financial assets 7,176,598,738.76 7,843,816,244.29<br />
11.4 Off-balance-sheet instrumentsÕ revaluation differences 6,792,217.76 9,282,874.57<br />
11.5 Accruals and prepaid expenditure 294,596,508.26 300,090,443.66<br />
11.6 Sundry 1,055,801,635.91 1,037,636,987.78<br />
1 Only an ECB balance sheet item.<br />
Balance Sheet<br />
as at December 31, <strong>2004</strong><br />
35,583,064,122.36 29,272,907,388.41<br />
78 ×<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2004</strong>