(36)Pursuant to Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 924/2009, Member States are to remove settlement-based national reporting obligations on PSPs for balance of payments statistics relating to payment transactions of their customers of up to EUR 50 000. The collection of balance-of-payments statistics based on settlements emerged after the end of foreign exchange controls and until now, constitutes a major data source alongside others such as direct surveys, contributing to good quality statistics. From the beginning of the 1990s some Member States opted to rely more on information reported directly by companies and households than on data reported through banks on behalf of their customers. Although settlement-based reporting represents a solution that, in terms of society as a whole, reduces the cost of balance-of-payments compilation while assuring good-quality statistics, in strict terms of cross-border payments the maintenance of such reporting in some Member States might diminish efficiency and increases costs. Since one aim of SEPA is to reduce the costs of cross-border payments, settlement-based balance-of-payments reporting should be abolished completely.