Traduction de «Indicateurs économiques et statistiques » (Français → Anglais) :

The European System of Accounts (ESA), set up by Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community (4) (ESA 95), consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission in February 1993, is the main tool behind the Union’s economic statistics as well as many economic indicators (including GDP).

The worldwide shortage of resources means, however, that this extension of the accounting system can be no more than a first step towards an internationally recognised system of ‘European sustainability statistics’ (ESS) which, as a priority, must include the full range of environmental and social indicators alongside economic indicators.

Establish an enhanced analytical surveillance framework (including a scoreboard with specific trigger values for early warning) with appropriate methodological tools and transparency for an effective multilateral surveillance based on harmonised economic indicators (real and nominal), which may affect competitiveness positions and/or excessive imbalances; these key indicators may be: effective real exchange rates, current account, productivity (including resource productivity and total-factor productivity), unit labour costs, credit growth and asset price developments (including financial assets and property markets), the growth and inv ...[+++]estment rate, the unemployment rate, net foreign asset positions, the evolution of the tax basis, poverty and social cohesion and indicators of environmental externalities; alert thresholds should be defined for indicators included in the scoreboard and all developments in these indicators should be complemented by a qualitative assessment by the Commission,

In addition, the need for job vacancy statistics follows from the Action Plan on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) Statistical Requirements, which was established at the request of the Ecofin Council by the European Commission (Eurostat) in close collaboration with the ECB; this also gave rise to the Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI), which include job vacancy statistics and were adopted by the Ecofin Council on 18 February 2003.

6. Calls on the European Council and Member States to stick to the Commission's proposal of twenty-eight structural indicators plus seven general economic background indicators; however, calls for an annual update of all indicators and for more qualitative information which allows for a full picture of economic progress and social cohesion; expects, therefore, the development of a modular statistical accounting system in the near future;

Contrary to the suggestion that the economic indicators showing injury are largely outweighed by other indicators showing lack of injury, the above detailed investigation showed that all economic indicators developed negatively, in particular profits and sales prices with a time lag of a few months.