V poročilu Monetarnega odbora o potrebah po informacijah, ki ga je 18. januarja 1999 potrdil Ekonomsko-finančni svet, je poudarjeno, da je za ustrezno delovanje ekonomske in monetarne unije ter enotnega trga velikega pomena učinkovit nadzor in koordinacija ekonomskih politik in da je za to potreben celovit sistem statističnih informacij, ki zagotavlja oblikovalcem politike potrebne podatke, na podlagi katerih sprejemajo svoje odločitve.
The report by the Monetary Committee on information requirements, endorsed by the ECOFIN Council on 18 January 1999, underlined that, for the proper functioning of Economic and Monetary Union and the single market, effective surveillance and coordination of economic policies are of major importance and that this requires a comprehensive statistical information system providing policy-makers with the necessary data on which to base their decisions.