Interesting target completion date... it aligns with expiry of European Central Bank's Gold Agreement which limits the sale of gold to 500t gold annually. It expires Sept 2009.

Don't know if there is any relevance at all... but interesting none the less interesting. Here is an article from Kitco that mentions the Gold Agreement ... look at the "Supply - central bank sales" section.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/hamilton/de...

"So European CBs have been selling gold aggressively to diversify since at least 1999. That year they met and formed what was later called the Central Bank Gold Agreement. They agreed to limit their collective gold sales to 400t annually over 5 years. In March 2004 in CBGA 2, this agreement was extended and expanded to a 500t-per-year maximum for another 5 years. While these targets haven’t always been hit in a given CBGA year (ending September), they are a good proxy for European CB sales as a whole."