Regional Government expenditure statistics Berthold Feldmann Eurostat 13-Jul-07

Background Project for regional government accounts in early-2000s, producing a methodological report project halted in 2002 due to other priorities Renewed interest of DG REGIO in government spending by region at NUTS level 2 Total government spending (by all levels of government) Functional breakdown Investment Presentation to last Working Group meeting (Oct. 2007) 2 / 10 Name of the presentation

Eurostat’s response A call for tender was launched to engage a private consultant to investigate current and future data availability in countries Contract awarded to Hendyplan Luxembourg SA Work started in June 2008 Work expected to take place over a 9 month period 3 / 10 Name of the presentation

Main elements of work Focus on: Existing data availability and methodology Potential for future compilation of data Questionnaire to all Member States with more than one NUTS-2 region 21 countries Visits by expert to selected countries Final report summarising current position and future prospects 4 / 10 Name of the presentation

Timetable Concise questionnaire was sent out in July 2008 Responses requested by mid-September Interim review of responses and issues in October Follow-up questions and expert visits in late-October 2008 to January 2009 Final report in March 2009 5 / 10 Name of the presentation

Responses so far No reply so far No RGES and no plans for it GR, RO BG, DE, IE, NL, AU, SI, SK, UK 6 / 10 Name of the presentation

Availability of RGES 7 / 10 Name of the presentation

Availability of RGES 8 / 10 Name of the presentation

Follow-up Request from DG REGIO for first data collection in 2009 to be used in 5th Cohesion Report, due for 2010 Evaluation by Eurostat based on Final Report countries which already have data countries which could collect data in future degree to which data are harmonised If feasible initiate data collection from summer 2009 potential grant funding available 9 / 10 Name of the presentation

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