Naturligvis kan afskaffelsen af nødvendigheden af at have valutareserver mellem de 11 valutaer, som ved anvendelse af funktionalitetsprincippet bliver underinddelinger af euroen pr. 1. januar 1999, give følelsen af, at en stor del af de indberettede reserver bliver uanvendelige, og at dette formodede overskud i reserverne skulle kunne anvendes til noget andet.
Naturally, the removal of the need to have exchange reserves among the 11 currencies that, through the application of the principle of fungibility, will become subdivisions of the euro on 1 January, could lead us to believe that a substantial proportion of the reserves in question will become useless and that this supposed excess of reserves could be used elsewhere.