Memo: Questions and Answers: European System of Accounts 2010

National accounts data are used by governments, economic and social actors, who find in these sets of harmonized and reliable statistics the necessary information on which to base their decisions and analyses. They are also source of many of the indicators that constitute the quantitative backbone of the European economic governance. In September 2014, the new European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010) will replace the current system (ESA 1995) to bring the national accounts into line with the new economic environment, advances in methodological research and user needs.

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

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Commissioner Šemeta welcomes EP vote on the revision of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-commissioner-semeta-welcomes-ep-vote-on-the-revision-of-the-european-system-of-accounts-esa-2010/

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