DAF/INV(2025)2/REV2 

 

Annex B. Review of the Investment Committee’s subsidiary bodies

 

 

This Annex reproduces both the self-assessments and proposed revised mandates of the Committee’s subsidiary bodies, as transmitted by each body.

Working Group on International Investment Statistics (WGIIS)

On 1 August 2025, the WGIIS approved, by written procedure, its self-assessment and agreed to transmit its proposal for a revised mandate to the IC and CSSP for approval [DAF/INV/STAT(2025)2/REV1].

It was considered that the substance of the Working Group’s mandate remained broadly fit for purpose and adequate to continue to allow the WGIIS to carry out its work. It was thus proposed that the WGIIS’s mandate remain substantively unchanged, with only minor modifications to align with current practice across OECD bodies.

Continued relevance of the WGIIS

The WGIIS remains relevant to the fulfilment of the mandates of the IC and CSSP, in particular through its work on:

• Foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics, as a means of economic and financial integration of economies, and of the Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment, as the international standards for its compilation.

• Internationally comparable FDI statistics as input into economic and financial analyses and policymaking and the WGIIS’s work on collecting and disseminating FDI statistics that are timely and comparable across countries.

• Continuing to periodically review and update the Recommendation, in addition to supporting the implementation of the revised Recommendation as it stands today, to ensure the production and dissemination of accurate and relevant FDI statistics in a context of increased complexity of financial markets and corporate strategies.

• Successfully engaging in peer discussions among delegates, as evidenced by the strong and constant participation by capital-based delegates during the meetings of the WGIIS

Draft revised mandate of the WGIIS

 

I.Objectives

1.The Working Group on International Investment Statistics (hereafter Working Group) shall assist the Investment Committee and the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy in pursuing their mandates to:

i.Develop and support the implementation of OECD standards in the area of international investment statistics, in particular the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment;

ii.Keep abreast of new developments in foreign direct investment statistics and carry out empirical analysis to support policy discussions in the Investment Committee and the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy, as appropriate:

iii.Carry out work on the Research Agenda and propose adjustments to the Benchmark Definition as well as to related statistics and analyses;

iv.Provide timely and comprehensive statistics required for the work of the Secretariat according to the definitions and templates included in the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment.

II.Working Methods

2.To achieve these objectives, the Working Group shall serve as a forum for sharing experience and promoting best practices on:

i.implementation of international standards, to facilitate the availability of timely, reliable, and comparable statistics, to analyse these statistics, to develop relevant indicators to respond to the needs for the analysis of the global economy, and to undertake other tasks as required by the Investment Committee and the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy in the field of international investment and multinational enterprises.

ii.statistics on international investment, and assistance to national authorities concerning the implementation and interpretation of the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment.

III.Coordination arrangements

3.In order to efficiently implement its objectives, the WGIIS shall:

i.co-operate and co-ordinate with other relevant OECD bodies;

ii.consult and engage with other stakeholders active in international investment statistics, in particular experts in FDI statistics.

IV.Composition

4.The Working Group is composed of senior statisticians from National Statistical Offices and/or Central Banks and experts in the field of FDI statistics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RENEWAL OF THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MANDATE