General government: quarterly non-financial accounts, ESA 95 categories

This document outlines the opinion of the European Central Bank on quarterly non-financial accounts for general government. The ECB strongly supports the timetable for the transmission of quarterly data on general government expenditure and revenue as envisaged under the draft regulation. The ECB also calls on the Member States to abstain from derogations and to provide the quarterly data in line with ESA 95 concepts, in particular for the compilation of euro-zone aggregates. Lastly, the ECB has stated that the draft Regulation might be improved in some technical respects.�