EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Brussels, 8.1.2010
COM(2010) 1 final
REPORT
ON GREEK GOVERNMENT
DEFICIT AND DEBT STATISTICS
EUROPEAN COMMISSION – JANUARY 2010
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Table of Contents
Executive summary
1
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 6
2
Institutional framework ................................................................................................................... 7
2.1
European Statistical System and quality assurance ............................................................... 7
2.2
European Statistics Code of Practice ..................................................................................... 8
2.3
Institutional aspects of EDP reporting ................................................................................... 8
2.4
Governance and institutional framework for EDP reporting in Greece............................... 10
3
Chronology of main events ........................................................................................................... 12
3.1
The 2004 methodological report .......................................................................................... 12
3.1.1
Exceptional revisions in the September 2004 EDP notifications .................................... 12
3.1.2
The 2004 methodological report and the infringement procedure .................................. 13
3.2
Greek reporting between the EDP methodological visit of 29 May-2 June 2006 and 27-29
September 2006, the action plan and follow-up actions (up to 17 July 2008) .................................. 13
3.3
Greek reporting in 2008: the follow-up EDP methodological visit of 2-3 June 2008 and
second EDP methodological visit of 15-19 September 2008 ........................................................... 17
3.4
Greek government deficit and debt figures: revisions April 2009 –