GUIDELINE (EU) 2025/603 OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 7 March 2025
on government finance statistics
(ECB/2025/9)
(recast)
Article 1
Subject matter and scope
Article 2
Definitions
Article 3
Statistical information to be reported by the NCBs
Article 4
Timeliness
Article 5
Revisions
Article 6
Database on GFS
Article 7
Cooperation with the competent authorities other than NCBs
Article 8
Transmission
Article 9
Quality
Article 10
Publication
Article 11
Simplified amendment procedure
Article 12
Repeal
Article 13
Taking effect and implementation
Article 14
Addressees
ANNEX I
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Revenue, expenditure and deficit/surplus statistics
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
Reporting derogation |
|
Deficit (–) or surplus (+) |
1 = 6 – 21 1 = 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 |
x |
|
Central government |
2 |
x |
|
State government |
3 |
x |
|
Local government |
4 |
x |
|
Social security funds |
5 |
x |
|
Total revenue |
6 = 7 + 19 |
x |
|
Total current revenue |
7 = 8 + 9 + 13 + 16 + 17 |
x |
|
Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. |
8 |
x |
|
Taxes on production and imports |
9 |
x |
|
Taxes on products |
10 |
x |
|
of which: value added tax (VAT) |
11 |
x |
|
Other taxes on production |
12 |
x |
|
Net social contributions |
13 |
x |
|
of which: employers’ actual social contributions |
14 |
x |
|
of which: households’ actual social contributions |
15 |
x |
|
Sales |
16 |
x |
|
Other current revenue |
17 |
x |
|
of which: interest receivable |
18 |
x |
|
Total capital revenue |
19 |
x |
|
of which: capital taxes |
20 |
x |
|
Total expenditure |
21 = 22 + 31 |
x |
|
Total current expenditure |
22 = 23 + 24 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 |
x |
|
Intermediate consumption |
23 |
x |
|
Compensation of employees |
24 |
x |
|
of which: wages and salaries |
25 |
|
|
Interest payable |
26 |
x |
|
Subsidies payable |
27 |
x |
|
Social benefits other than social transfers in kind |
28 |
x |
|
Social transfers in kind – purchased market production |
29 |
x |
|
Other current expenditure |
30 |
x |
|
Total capital expenditure |
31 = 32 + 33 + 34 |
x |
|
Gross fixed capital formation |
32 |
x |
|
Other net acquisitions of non-financial assets and changes in inventories |
33 |
x |
|
Capital transfers payable |
34 |
x |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
|
Capital transfers representing taxes and social contributions assessed but unlikely to be collected |
35 |
x |
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Revenue of the European Union (EU) budget from the Member State |
1 = 2 + 3 + 7 |
|
Current international cooperation |
2 |
|
EU own resources and miscellaneous contributions |
3 |
|
of which: Custom and agricultural duties |
4 |
|
of which: VAT-based own resource |
5 |
|
of which: gross national income-based own resource |
6 |
|
Capital transfers |
7 |
|
Expenditure of the EU budget in the Member State |
8 = 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 |
|
Subsidies |
9 |
|
Current transfers to government |
10 |
|
Current transfers to non-government units |
11 |
|
Capital transfers to government |
12 |
|
Capital transfers to non-government units |
13 |
|
Own resources collection costs |
14 |
|
Balance of Member State vis-à-vis the EU budget (net receiver +, net payer –) |
15 = 8 – 1 |
|
Contributions to the Single Resolution Board (SRB) / Single Resolution Fund (SRF) |
16 |
|
Capital transfers from SRB/SRF |
17 |
|
of which: to financial entities in general government |
18 |
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
Reporting derogation |
|
Final consumption expenditure |
1 = 2 + 3 1 = [1A.23] + [1A.24] + [1A.29] + 4 + 5 + 6 – [1A.16] |
x |
|
Individual consumption expenditure |
2 |
x |
|
Collective consumption expenditure |
3 |
x |
|
Consumption of fixed capital |
4 |
x |
|
Taxes on production paid minus subsidies received |
5 |
x |
|
Net operating surplus |
6 |
x |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
|
Final consumption expenditure at prices of the previous year |
7 |
|
|
Gross fixed capital formation at prices of the previous year |
8 |
|
|
Gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices |
9 |
x |
|
GDP at prices of the previous year |
10 |
|
|
Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. paid by corporations to government and rest of the world |
11 |
|
|
Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. paid by households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) to government and rest of the world |
12 |
|
Deficit-debt adjustment statistics
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Adjustment between financial and non-financial accounts |
1 = [1A.1] – 2 |
|
Net financial transactions (consolidated) |
2 = 3 – 17 |
|
Financial assets (consolidated) |
3 = 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 13 + 14 + 15 |
|
Monetary gold and special drawing rights (SDRs) |
4 |
|
Currency and deposits |
5 |
|
Debt securities |
6 |
|
Short-term loans |
7 |
|
Long-term loans |
8 |
|
Equity and investment fund shares or units |
9 |
|
Privatisations (net) |
10 |
|
Equity injections (net) |
11 |
|
Other |
12 |
|
Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes |
13 |
|
Financial derivatives and employee stock options |
14 |
|
Other accounts receivable |
15 |
|
of which: taxes and social contributions |
16 |
|
Liabilities (consolidated) |
17 = 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 |
|
Monetary gold and SDRs |
18 |
|
Currency and deposits |
19 |
|
Short-term debt securities |
20 |
|
Long-term debt securities |
21 |
|
Short-term loans |
22 |
|
Long-term loans |
23 |
|
Equity and investment fund shares or units |
24 |
|
Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes |
25 |
|
Financial derivatives and employee stock options |
26 |
|
Other accounts payable |
27 |
|
General government borrowing requirement |
28 = 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 28 = 30 + 31 + 32 28 = 1 – [1A.1] + 3 – 18 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 |
|
of which: long-term |
29 |
|
Denominated in national currency |
30 |
|
Denominated in currencies of euro area Member States |
31 |
|
Denominated in other currencies |
32 |
|
Other flows in government debt |
33 = 34 + 37 |
|
Revaluation effects |
34 = 35 + 36 |
|
Appreciation and depreciation of foreign- currency debt |
35 |
|
Other revaluation effects (differences compared to face value) |
36 = 38 – 28 – 35 – 37 |
|
Other changes in volume |
37 |
|
Change in government debt |
38 = 28 + 33 38 = 1 – [1A.1] + 3 – 18 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 + 33 38 = [3A.1][T] – [3A.1][T – 1] |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
Net incurrence of loans granted by central bank |
39 |
Government debt statistics
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Government debt (consolidated) |
1 = 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 1 = 7 + 12 1 = 13 + 14 + 15 1 = 16 + 17 1 = 19 + 20 + 22 |
|
Currency and deposits |
2 |
|
Short-term debt securities |
3 |
|
Long-term debt securities |
4 |
|
Short-term loans |
5 |
|
Long-term loans |
6 |
|
Held by residents of the Member State |
7 = 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 |
|
Central bank |
8 |
|
Other monetary financial institutions |
9 |
|
Other financial institutions |
10 |
|
Other residents |
11 |
|
Held by non-residents of the Member State |
12 |
|
Denominated in national currency |
13 |
|
Denominated in currencies of euro area Member States |
14 |
|
Denominated in other currencies |
15 |
|
Short-term debt |
16 |
|
Long-term debt |
17 |
|
of which: variable interest rate |
18 |
|
Residual maturity up to one year |
19 |
|
Residual maturity over one and up to five years |
20 |
|
of which: variable interest rate |
21 |
|
Residual maturity over five years |
22 |
|
of which: variable interest rate |
23 |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
Average residual maturity of debt |
24 |
|
Government debt – zero-coupon bonds |
25 |
|
Government debt – loans granted by central bank |
26 |
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Government debt (non-consolidated between sub-sectors) |
1 = 7 + 11 + 15 + 19 |
|
Consolidating elements |
2 = 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 2 = 8 + 9 + 10 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 20 + 21 + 22 |
|
Currency and deposits |
3 |
|
Short-term securities |
4 |
|
Long-term securities |
5 |
|
Loans |
6 |
|
Issued by central government (consolidated) |
7 |
|
held by state government |
8 |
|
held by local government |
9 |
|
held by social security funds |
10 |
|
Issued by state government (consolidated) |
11 |
|
held by central government |
12 |
|
held by local government |
13 |
|
held by social security funds |
14 |
|
Issued by local government (consolidated) |
15 |
|
held by central government |
16 |
|
held by state government |
17 |
|
held by social security funds |
18 |
|
Issued by social security funds (consolidated) |
19 |
|
held by central government |
20 |
|
held by state government |
21 |
|
held by local government |
22 |
ANNEX II
METHODOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS
1.
Definition of sectors and subsectors
|
Sectors and subsectors in the ESA 2010 |
|
|
Total economy |
S.1 |
|
Non-financial corporations |
S.11 |
|
Financial corporations |
S.12 |
|
Central bank |
S.121 |
|
Deposit-taking corporations, except the central bank |
S.122 |
|
Money market funds |
S.123 |
|
Non-MMF investment funds |
S.124 |
|
Other financial intermediaries, except insurance corporations and pension funds |
S.125 |
|
Financial auxiliaries |
S.126 |
|
Captive financial institutions and money lenders |
S.127 |
|
Insurance corporations |
S.128 |
|
Pension funds |
S.129 |
|
Monetary financial institutions |
S.121 + S.122 + S.123 |
|
General government |
S.13 |
|
Central government (excluding social security funds) |
S.1311 |
|
State government (excluding social security funds) |
S.1312 |
|
Local government (excluding social security funds) |
S.1313 |
|
Social security funds |
S.1314 |
|
Households |
S.14 |
|
Non-profit institutions serving households |
S.15 |
|
Rest of the world |
S.2 |
|
Member States and institutions and bodies of the European Union (EU) |
S.21 |
|
Member States of the EU |
S.211 |
|
Institutions and bodies of the EU |
S.212 |
|
The European Central Bank (ECB) |
S.2121 |
|
European institutions and bodies, except the ECB |
S.2122 |
|
Non-member countries and international organisations non-resident in the EU |
S.22 |
2.
Definitions of the categories
(1) (2)
Table 1A
Table 1B
Table 1C
Table 2A
Table 3A
Table 3B
ANNEX III
STATISTICAL INFORMATION TRANSMITTED BY EUROSTAT
(1)
Revenue, expenditure and deficit/surplus statistics
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Deficit (–) or surplus (+) |
1 = 6 – 21 1 = 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 |
|
Central government |
2 |
|
State government |
3 |
|
Local government |
4 |
|
Social security funds |
5 |
|
Total revenue |
6 = 7 + 19 |
|
Total current revenue |
7 = 8 + 9 + 13 + 16 + 17 |
|
Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. |
8 |
|
Taxes on production and imports |
9 |
|
Taxes on products |
10 |
|
of which: value added tax (VAT) |
11 |
|
Other taxes on production |
12 |
|
Net social contributions |
13 |
|
of which: employers’ actual social contributions |
14 |
|
of which: households’ actual social contributions |
15 |
|
Sales |
16 |
|
Other current revenue |
17 |
|
of which: interest receivable |
18 |
|
Total capital revenue |
19 |
|
of which: capital taxes |
20 |
|
Total expenditure |
21 = 22 + 31 |
|
Total current expenditure |
22 = 23 + 24 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 |
|
Intermediate consumption |
23 |
|
Compensation of employees |
24 |
|
Interest payable |
26 |
|
Subsidies payable |
27 |
|
Social benefits other than social transfers in kind |
28 |
|
Social transfers in kind – purchased market production |
29 |
|
Other current expenditure |
30 |
|
Total capital expenditure |
31 = 32 + 33 + 34 |
|
Gross fixed capital formation |
32 |
|
Other net acquisitions of non-financial assets and changes in inventories |
33 |
|
Capital transfers payable |
34 |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
Capital transfers representing taxes and social contributions assessed but unlikely to be collected |
35 |
|
Category |
Number and linear relation |
|
Final consumption expenditure |
1 = 2 + 3 1 = [1A.23] + [1A.24] + [1A.29] + 4 + 5 + 6 – [1A.16] |
|
Individual consumption expenditure |
2 |
|
Collective consumption expenditure |
3 |
|
Consumption of fixed capital |
4 |
|
Taxes on production paid minus subsidies received |
5 |
|
Net operating surplus |
6 |
|
Memorandum items: |
|
|
Gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices |
9 |
ANNEX IV
REPEALED GUIDELINE WITH LIST OF THE SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS THERETO
(referred to in Article 12)
|
Guideline of the European Central Bank of 25 July 2013 on government finance statistics (ECB/2013/23) |
|
|
Guideline of the European Central Bank of 3 June 2014 amending Guideline ECB/2013/23 on government finance statistics (ECB/2014/21) |
Annexes I and II replaced |
|
Guideline (EU) 2018/861 of the European Central Bank of 24 April 2018 amending Guideline ECB/2013/23 on government finance statistics (ECB/2018/13) |
Annexes I and II replaced |
|
Guideline (EU) 2020/1552 of the European Central Bank of 14 October 2020 amending Guideline ECB/2013/23 on government finance statistics (ECB/2020/50) |
Article 7, paragraphs 2 and 3, replaced; Article 7, paragraph 4, added. |
ANNEX V
CORRELATION TABLE
|
Guideline ECB/2013/23 |
This Guideline |
|
— Article 1 Article 2 |
Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 |
|
Article 3 Article 4 — — Article 5 Article 6 Article 7 — Article 8 |
— Article 4 Article 5 Article 6 Article 7 Article 8 Article 9 Article 10 Article 11 |
|
Article 9 |
Article 12 |
|
Article 10 — — Annexes I-II Annex III — — Annex IV |
— Article 13 Article 14 Annexes I-II — Annex III Annex IV Annex V |