Communication from the Commission to the Council – Follow-up to the Council Decision 2011/734/EU of 12 July 2011 addressed to Greece, with a view to reinforcing and deepening fiscal surveillance and giving notice to Greece to take measures for the deficit reduction judged necessary to remedy the situation of excessive deficit (November 2012)

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Series Details (2012) 739 final (30.11.12)
Publication Date 30/11/2012
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This Communication assesses the measures implemented by Greece to comply with the Council Decision 2011/734/EU as amended by 2012/211/EU of 13 March 2012. Together with the Commission's Compliance Report, prepared in liaison with the ECB, the Communication contributes to the assessment of compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the context of the financing to Greece by the euro-area Member States, through the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). This assessment is based on the Commission's 2012 Autumn Forecast and the detailed assessment made in the review of the economic adjustment programme, conducted by the Commission together with the IMF and ECB.

In addition to this Communication, the Commission has adopted a Recommendation for a Council Decision amending Decision 2011/734/EU [see Related url]:

Taking into account recent developments which reinforce the necessity for the government to deliver an ambitious package of reforms, the policy conditionality in the Memorandum of Understanding of the economic adjustment programme of Greece needs to be updated. The conditionality concerns not only the fiscal consolidation measures, but also those measures needed to enhance the growth-friendly nature and to minimise any negative social impact.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2012)739: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:739:FIN
European Commission: COM(2012)738: Recommendation for a Council Decision amending Decision 2011/734/EU addressed to Greece with a view to reinforcing and deepening fiscal surveillance and giving notice to Greece to take measures for the deficit reduction judged necessary to remedy the situation of excessive deficit http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0738:FIN:EN:PDF

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