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EMU balance
Since the start of the EMU the same definitions are used within the entire EMU for the national debt and the budget balance (deficit/surplus) and we only refer to EMU debt and EMU balance.
The EMU balance is the difference between the income and expenditure of the government (Central Government, Social Security, Care and local authorities and autonomous administrative authorities [ZBOs]) of a certain country in a certain year. The calculation of the EMU balance is in line with the economic reality. In other words: the EMU balance is a transaction term and not only based on what happens in the cash. Furthermore, financial transactions such as loans and purchasing public property do in principle not affect the EMU balance.
Reports about the EMU balance
The Netherlands has committed itself to the Special Data Dissemination Standard
(SDDS) of the IMF. Countries that participate in the standard, report on a
regular basis about actual developments on a number of quantitative economic
data. The main goal of the SDDS is that this standard leads to greater
transparancy on international economic data. This transparancy can put a certain
disciplin on participating countries, for example regarding to the policy on
government debt.
The data that are released due to the SDDS, are published on the Internet. The internet-site of the IMF gives information on which data are published by the participating countries and when these data will be released. In the near future, this IMF-site will offer links to the national sites where the data are published.
In the Dutch case, the SDDS means that new information on the development of goverment deficit (EMU balance) is released on a monthly basis.
Use the list in the menu to browse through the reports. The archive contains the reports as they have been published on this site in previous months. Due to new insights there may be differences between the figures in the current report and figures in the archive. For that reason the figures from the current report prevail, as these figures are based upon the most recent insights.