There is some abiquity regarding the new series. Below is the Bundesbank explanation when they stopped producing the old series used by the courts.

Also below is a Study on the implications of this change in series for asessing the ceilings.

Both are in German

• EWU Zinsstatistik Gutachten (Hartmann-Wendels/Spörks 2006)
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• Die neue EWU-Zinsstatistik – Methodik zur Erhebung des deutschen Beitrags (Deutsche Bundesbank, Monatsbericht, Januar 2004)
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