Commission Regulation (EU) No 220/2014 of 7 March 2014 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2009 as regards references to the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union

Regulation (EC) No 479/2009 is amended as follows: 1. All references to ‘ESA 95’ shall be replaced by ‘ESA 2010’. 2. Article 1 (1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘For the purposes of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure and of this Regulation, the terms in paragraphs 2 to 6 are defined according to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (hereinafter referred to as ESA 2010). The codes in brackets refer to ESA 2010.’; 3. Article 1(3) is amended as follows: (a) the code ‘EDP B.9’ shall be replaced by ‘B.9’; (b) the code ‘EDP D.41’ shall be replaced by ‘D.41’ 4. The second subparagraph of Article 1(5) shall be replaced by the following: ‘Government debt is constituted by the liabilities of general government in the following categories: currency and deposits (AF.2); debt securities (AF.3) and loans (AF. 4), as defined in ESA 2010’.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Regulation shall apply from 1 September 2014.