Balance of payments and International investment position series are updated with the new composition of the EU and OPEC countries

With the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), as from the next quarterly publication on 25th March, in chapter 17 of the Statistical Bulletin, series with counterpart country EU will refer to its new composition (EU 27). The new composition will be applied to the complete time series. Aggregates with the EU in its former composition (EU 28) will be available in Time Series Search Engine-BIEST

Tables be17.3a, be17.4b, be17.16, be17.22a y be17.27 will incorporate, as from their next update (25^th March and 13^th April), the change in the OPEC composition (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting countries): United Arab Emirates, Angola, Congo, Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria,  Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.