AWV notifications

Here you determine the general system settings for the AWV notifications to the Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank), which must be generated for cross-border cash transactions in accordance with the German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV). In principle, AWV participants and report data are created manually in BL Banking Web.

You can use the checkboxes to automatically prepare the report data on the basis of account statements and payments and then complete them with the function AWV notifications — AWV report data. Only use one of the two options. Otherwise AWV report data will be created twice.

Create AWV report data when receiving account statements
Create AWV report data when sending new payments

If AWV messages are to be created automatically during retrieval of account statements or sending payments, activate the respective checkbox.

Payments can be recorded manually or exist as external payment files. In order to generate AWV notifications during sending external files, the checkbox Display signed payments from external files must also be checked in the system settings under Payment recording.

Create AWV report data, if no conversion factor is available

Current ECB exchange rates are available in BL Banking Web, but not for all currencies worldwide. By default, no AWV notifications are generated if no conversion factor is available for an amount in a foreign currency because the correct amount in euros cannot be calculated. If you set Yes, an AWV notification is created with the amount in the field Amount reference. The amount in euros must be entered manually.

Format for the AWV report file

The standard format for AWV report files is XML. Alternatively, you can select the CSV format.

Figure: System settings for AWV notifications