Memo: Questions and Answers: European System of Accounts 2010

The European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA) sets down the harmonised methodology which must be used for the production of national accounts data in the EU. It is crucial to have such a methodological rulebook in the EU, in order to ensure that statistics on Member States' economies are compiled in a consistent, comparable, reliable and up-to-date way.

On 16 October 2014 the European Commission published a Memo on the European System of Accounts 2010 and the main changes introduce in 2014.

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ESO: Background information: First estimation of European aggregates based on ESA 2010. ESA 2010 shifts level of EU and euro area GDP upward, growth rates almost unaffected http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-first-estimation-of-european-aggregates-based-on-esa-2010-esa-2010-shifts-level-of-eu-and-euro-area-gdp-upward-growth-rates-almost-unaffected/

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