Question: What did the Greek minister of finance clarify the 1999 budget was below when calculated with the ESA79 methodology?
Sentence: In the 2005 OECD report for Greece, it was clearly stated that "the impact of new accounting rules on the fiscal figures for the years 1997 to 1999 ranged from 0.7 to 1 percentage point of GDP; this retroactive change of methodology was responsible for the revised deficit exceeding 3% in 1999, the year of [Greece's] EMU membership qualification".
Answer in sentence: no