EN 86 OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanUnion 10.11.2009 Court observation Action taken GNI-based own resource: revision policy (including the follow-up of the Greek revision) Court analysis Commission reply In its Annual Report concerning 2006 the Court made observations on the revision to Greek GNI (paragraphs 4.24 to 4.26) and recommended in paragraph 4.32 that the Commission, in particular: (a) Following the receipt of the first pre-announcement letters of Member States’ major revisions, the Commission imple­ mented a system to monitor the application of the guidelines proposed by the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB). (a) The monitoring system implemented by the Commission should be assessed as soon as all steps of the communication process have been applied and the first major revisions to National Accounts have been carried out. (a) The Commission monitors continuously the appli­ cation of the CMFB guidelines in particular by regularly reminding Member States of these guidelines in the GNI Committee. The results obtained so far are positive, thus calling for a continuation of this approach. Taking into account the Court's remarks, the Commission will also make a general assessment of the monitoring system once the first major national accounts revisions have been carried out. (a) sets rules on communication and is fore­ warned, together with the GNI Committee, of major revisions, (b) In the CMFB meeting of July 2008 Eurostat proposed a harmonised revision policy for National Accounts at European level, including the main aspects to be considered and analysed in the setting-up of a common revision policy. (b) Despite the progress made, further work is needed by the Commission and Member States in order to implement a common revision policy in the European Union. (b) implements a coordinated policy for National Accounts data revisions, including the requirement for a regular bench-marking, and (c) The Commission should complete its verifi­ cation in 2009 of the Greek GNP data, in cooperation with the Greek authorities, in order to be able to lift the remaining specific reservations. (b) The Commission is continuing work and discussions with the Member States in order to implement a common revision policy in the EU, taking into account the remarks of the Court. (c) ensures that the conclusions from control of the Greek inventory are available early enough, so as to allow the inclusion of corrected data in accounts for the financial year 2007. 
SV 86 Europeiskaunionensofficiellatidning 10.11.2009 Revisionsrättens iakttagelser Åtgärder som vidtagits Egna medel från BNI: revideringspolicy (inbegripet uppföljningen av den grekiska revideringen) Revisionsrättens analys Kommissionens svar I årsrapporten för 2006 gjorde revisionsrätten iakttagelser om revideringen av de grekiska BNI-uppgifterna (punkterna 4.24–4.26) och rekommen­ derade i punkt 4.32 kommissionen att framför allt a) Efter mottagandet av de första förhandsmed­ delandena om medlemsstaternas större revide­ ringar, införde kommissionen ett system för att övervaka tillämpningen av de riktlinjer som föreslagits av kommittén för valuta-, fi­ nans-och betalningsbalansstatistik (CMFB). a) Det övervakningssystem som kommissionen tillämpar bör bedömas så snart som alla steg i kommunikationsprocessen har tillämpats och de första stora revideringarna av nationalrä­ kenskaperna har gjorts. a) Kommissionen övervakar kontinuerligt tillämpningen av CMFB-riktlinjerna, särskilt genom att regelbundet erinra medlemsstaterna om dessa riktlinjer i BNI-kommittén. Resultaten hittills har varit positiva, vil­ ket motiverar en fortsättning av detta förfaringssätt.