LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

BA bankers'acceptances

BPM Balance of Payments Manual

c.i.f. cost, insurance, freight

COFOG Classification of the Functions of Government

COICOP Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose for Households

CPA Classification of Products by Activity

EAGGF European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund

EC European Communities

ECSC European Coal and Steel Community

ECU European currency unit

EEC European Economic Community

EIB European Investment Bank

EKS Elteto-Köves-Szulc

EMI European Monetary Institute

EMS European Monetary System

ESA European System of Accounts

EU European Union

FISIM financial intermediation services indirectly measured

f.o.b. free on board

FRA forward rate agreement

FRN floating rate note

G nominal holding gain

GDP gross domestic product

GDPR gross domestic product per region

GFS Government Finance Statistics

GNI gross national income

GNP gross national product

ILO International Labour Organisation

IMF International Monetary Fund

INTRASTAT intra-community trade statistics

ISCED International Standard Classification of Education

ISIC Rev. 3 International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (Revision 3)

KAU kind-of-activity unit

NACE Rev. 1 General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities within the European Communities (Revision 1)

NDP net domestic product

n.e.c. not elsewhere classified

NG neutral holding gain

NIF note issuance facility

NIFO next-in-first-out

NNI net national income

NPI non-profit institution

NPISH non-profit institutions serving households

NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

OTC over-the-counter

PIM perpetual inventory method

PPP purchasing power parity

R and D research and development

RG real holding gain

ROW rest of the world

SAM social accounting matrix

SDR special drawing right

SNA System of National Accounts

TARIC Integrated Tariff of the European Union

UCITS Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities

UN United Nations

VAT value added tax