European Parliament and Provisional data 29 March 1999, WRITTEN QUESTION No. 708/99 by José GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL Structural Funds

The Director-General of the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) disclosed at the meeting of Parliament’s Subcommittee on Monetary Affairs of 17 February 1999 that the statistical data corresponding to the financial years 1994, 1995 and 1996 already included the data corresponding to the hidden economy of the regions analysed, although he did not say exactly what criteria had