ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - Polymer Bank Notes of the World

on market infrastructure business continuity. 25The webpage provides interested parties withinformation on the latest business continuitystandards applicable to infrastructures operatingin Europe, a glossary of terms related to businesscontinuity and up-to-date information on thelatest European developments in this field. Thewebpage also provides links to central banksand other regulators that have issued relevantstandards and market practices applicable intheir countries (including non-Europeancountries such as the United States, Hong Kongand Japan).To ensure the consistent use of terms in all ofthe ESCB’s publications that relate to payments,clearing and settlement, on 30 September 2008the ECB published for public consultationa glossary of terms relating to the technicalaspects of payment, clearing and settlementsystems in the EU. The terms included in theglossary have been defined in a user-friendlyand non-legalistic style in order to promote theiracceptance. The final version of the glossarywill be published on the ECB’s website.Finally, the ECB publishes statistical dataon payments and securities trading, clearingand settlement on an annual basis. Data arebroken down by country and, as of 2007, aremade available solely in electronic form viathe Statistical Data Warehouse on the ECB’swebsite. The data for 2007 were published on26 November 2008.The webpage can be found under25 http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/pol/bc/html/index.en.htmlECBAnnual Report2008169