Since its creation and as at 31 December 2007, the Commission has registered 24,420

claims: 16,129 material claims and 8,291 bank-related claims. As at that date, there were still 2,431 case-files to be examined.

The total amount of compensation awarded is 371,966,283 euros. The average value of the compensation granted is 28,000 euros per material claim and 4,100 euros per bank-related claim.

All claims taken together, close on a hundred new claims have been lodged on a monthly basis in the course of the past year and this continues to be the case.