VÜD-Datenübermittlungs-tabellen
Council regulation 479/2009, as amended, requires that EU Member States report EDP-related data to Eurostat twice per year, at the end of March and at the end of September.
The data are reported in harmonised tables. These tables are designed specifically to provide a consistent framework, with a link between national budgetary aggregates, the deficit and changes in the debt. They should be fully consistent with the GFS data.
In April and October of each year, Eurostat publishes the notification tables as transmitted by EU Member States in accordance with regulation 479/2009. These tables also include data for the current year, which are forecasts and not statistics. It is important to note that Eurostat's quality assessment does not cover these forecasts.
Eurostat also publishes a note on stock-flow adjustments for the EU Member States, the Euro area, and the EU as a whole. The stock-flow adjustments are the main factors contributing to the change in government debt, other than the government surplus or deficit. This document, prepared on the basis of the latest EDP notification tables, also provides a brief country-by-country analysis of these factors.
April 2025
October 2024
Content of EDP tables
Table 1 provides a summary view for the reference years showing:
- the net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (ESA surplus / deficit) for the general government sector and its subsectors
- the general government gross debt by instrument
- interest expenditure of general government, gross fixed capital formation of general government
- GDP.
The general government sector (S.13) consists of 4 subsectors:
- central government (S.1311)
- state government (S.1312)
- local government (S.1313)
- social security funds (S.1314).
Tables 2, which consist of the 4 separate tables 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D, present the link between the so-called working balances (usually the public surplus (+) / deficit (-) as reported nationally to the Parliament) and the net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) for each general government subsector.
The working balances often correspond to the traditional budget deficit or a public accounting balance. Working balances need to be adjusted for operations that are not included in them, but are nevertheless considered, in national accounts, as part of government operations and impact the surplus (+) / deficit (-), for example many cases of capital injections.
Working balances also need to be adjusted for operations that were included in them, while having no impact on surplus (+) / deficit (-). Usually, these are financial transactions contained in the working balance that have no effect on the ESA surplus (+) / deficit (-), for example loans granted by the government directly from the budget.
Tables 3, which consist of the 5 separate tables 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 3E, present the link between the government net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (ESA surplus (+) / deficit (-)) and the change in government debt.
Whereas the change in debt over a single reference period is mainly driven by the deficit (surplus) of that period, other effects may also contribute. As an example, for a given deficit (meaning an excess of expenditure over revenue), higher net acquisitions of financial assets lead to higher borrowing needs and therefore, likely, a higher change in debt.
The types of transactions reconciling the deficit (surplus) of any given reference period to the change in the debt of that same period are generically called stock-flow adjustments.
Table 4 shows supplementary information on:
- the stock of trade credit liabilities of general government
- the amount outstanding in the government debt from the financing of public undertakings
- the extent and the reasons in case of substantial differences between the face value and the market value of government debt
- the gross national income (GNI) of the EU Member States.
For further information, please consult the detailed description of the EDP notification tables.