The SDMX Global Registry (SGR) is the web based IT application that contains SDMX Data Structure Definitions (DSDs) and other SDMX objects supporting the world-wide implementation of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) and the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA2008). MORE>>

The Ownership Group for SDMX implementation in Balance of Payments (BOP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and National Accounts (NA) is pleased to inform you that updated DSDs have been made available. MORE>>

1. Introduction The Steering Group for SDMX implementation in Balance of Payments is pleased to inform you that the inter-agency work on developing integrated SDMX data structure definitions (DSDs) for external sector statistics based on the latest international standards (the IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6) and the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment - 4th Edition), has been finalised and is now ready for release on 1 October 2013. MORE>>

Following the release of the SDMX-NA package V1.1, the updated Excel visualisation templates have been published. Additionally a new version of the Eurostat SDMX Converter was released, which includes Excel as input format and was tested with the National Accounts Excel templates. The Excel2SDMX pilot converter is thus not anymore needed. MORE>>

The Ownership Group for SDMX implementation in Balance of Payments (BOP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and National Accounts (NA) is pleased to inform you that the comments received from the organisations that tested the DSDs have been taken into account, and that updated DSDs have been made available. The release fixes some mistakes detected by data providers in the V1.0 release of September 2013. In addition, some codes needed in the context of data cooperation between international organisations were added. MORE>>