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Practical aspects of introducing the euro
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Practical aspects of introducing the euro
The euro provides numerous advantages for citizens: a single currency for euro zone countries, the same costs for both national and cross-frontier bank transfers, and a stable business environment. The process leading to the single currency started well before euro notes and coins were introduced in the first Member States in January 2002.
PRACTICAL ASPECTS
The citizen and the euro
- Cross-border payments in euros
- New legal framework (NLF) for payments
Euro notes and coins
- Issuance of euro coins
- National sides and issuance of euro coins
- Denominations and technical specifications of Euro coins
- Euro banknotes: denominations, specifications, reproduction, exchange and withdrawal
- Changes to the national sides of euro coins
- Common guidelines: the national sides of euro coins
Switching over to euro notes and coins
- The successful introduction of the euro in Slovenia
- Practical aspects of the introduction of the euro: review of the situation
- Green Paper on the practical arrangements for the introduction of the single currency
- Impact on capital markets
- The impact on Community policies, institutions and legislation
- Preparations for public administrations
Information strategy for the euro
- Information and communication strategy on the euro and EMU
- Information strategy for the euro
- Euro information strategy: final stages of implementing EMU
First assessments
- EMU@10: successes and challenges after 10 years of Economic and Monetary Union
- Five years of Euro banknotes and coins
- The euro area in the world economy – Developments in the first three years
- Review of the introduction of euro notes and coins
- The introduction of euro banknotes and coins: one year on
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
- Towards a single currency: a brief history of EMU
First stage: preliminary reforms and beginning of convergence (1 July 1990 – 31 December 1993)
- The second stage of the EMU
- Progressive convergence during stage one of EMU
Second stage: preparation by the Member States for EMU (1 January 1994 – 31 December 1998)
- Prohibition of privileged access to financial institutions
- Prohibition on the central banks granting credit facilities to public authorities and undertakings
- Broad economic policy guidelines (1996)
- Broad economic policy guidelines (1997)
- Convergence in the European Union in 1996
- Convergence in the European Union in 1997
Third stage: preparation by the Member States for EMU (from 1 January 1999)
- Third stage of Economic and Monetary Union