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Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts (AEG) Meetings/Consultations

  Fifth AEG Meeting (19 - 23 March 2007, New York)
  Follow-up Consultations on the Fourth AEG Meeting
  Fourth AEG Meeting (30 January - 8 February 2006, Frankfurt)
  Third AEG Meeting (18 - 22 July 2005, Bangkok)
  Second AEG Meeting (8 - 16 December 2004, New York)
  First AEG Meeting (16 - 20 February 2004, Washington DC)

19 - 23 March 2007
The meeting was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA to deliberate on the following agenda. The report contains the conclusions of the meeting (the annexes will be added as soon as they become available).
Opening Statement by Paul Cheung, Director, UNSD
Agenda items
  		•  Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 6: The production account (91 KB)
     
  • Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 6 - Response by the Editor    		  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 7: The distribution of income accounts (58 KB)
     
  • Editor’s Response to Comments on Interest    		  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 8: The redistribution of income accounts (91 KB)
     
  • Decision tree to allocate social transfers    		  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 9: The use of income account  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 10: The capital account (51 KB)
     
  • Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 10 - Addendum by the Editor    		  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 11: The financial account (52 KB)
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 12: The other changes in assets account (32 KB)
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 13: The balance sheet (52 KB)
     
  • Note on Reinvested Earnings and Own Funds    		  
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 14: Summarising and presenting the accounts  
  		• Parts of Draft Chapter 17: Crosscutting and special issues  
  • Questions to the AEG on parts of Draft Chapter 17    		 (52 KB)
  • Comments by OECD on Draft Chapter 17    		 (81 KB)
  		• Substantive Comments on the Draft Chapter 26: Links to monetary and financial statistics  
  		• Long-term Research Agenda: Paper on Operationalizing the Agenda (151 KB)
     
    BACKGROUND PAPERS
  		•  Progress Report of the Project Manager (115 KB)
     
  • Documents Related to the Thirty-eight Statistical Commission's Consideration of the Recommendations for the Update of the 1993 SNA    		  
  		• Perspectives on Drafting (83 KB)
  		• Explanatary Note by the ECB/Eurostat Task Force on Pension Schemes in Social Insurance (71 KB)
     
  • Supplementary Tables for Pension Schemes in Social Insurance    		  
  		• Methodological Publications Planned by the ISWGNA (78 KB)
  		• Timing of the Introduction of the Updated SNA and the Revised ISIC in the National Accounts of OECD Member Countries  
     
  • Implementing SNA 93 Rev.1 in the Australian National Accounts    		 (806 KB)
  		• The Way Forward (102 KB)
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 6  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 7  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 8  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 9  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 10  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 11  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 12  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 13  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 14  
  		• Consolidated comments of the world-wide review on draft chapter 26  
     
    For the list of documents click here.
    For the report of the meeting click here.

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     Follow-up consultations on the AEG meeting from 30 January - 8 February 2006
    Results on follow-up consultations on various issues and clarifications:
  		• Employee stock options
    Stock options and employee share ownership plans
  		• Employer retirement pension schemes
    Possible compromise on the treatment of pension schemes in the updated SNA93
    Outcome of the AEG consultation
  		• Activation of guarantees
    Questionnaire for consultation by the AEG
    Outcome of the AEG consultation
  		• Classification and terminology of financial assets and liabilities in the 1993 SNA Rev. 1
    Questionnaire for the world-wide consultation carried out by the ECB's Directorate General Statistics
    Outcome of the world-wide consultation carried out by the ECB's Directorate General Statistics
    Consideration by the ISWGNA
  		• Financial corporations classification
    Sub-sectoring the financial corporations sector
    Consideration by the ISWGNA
  		• Non-performing loans
    Consideration by the ISWGNA
  		• Research and development
    Freely available R&D
    Consideration by the ISWGNA
  		• Head offices of holding companies
    Consideration by the ISWGNA
  		• Consistency issues:
    Decision tree
    The market /non-market distinction
    Redistribution of property income
    Annuities
    Non-profit Institutions

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    30 January - 8 February 2006
    The meeting was held at ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany to deliberate on the following agenda. The short report contains the conclusions of the meeting.
    The comprehensive report of the meeting is available in PDF format [995 KB].
    (To see the PowerPoint presentation click the PowerPoint icon for the respective agenda item.)
    Agenda items
  		•  Overview of comments on recommendations made at the third AEG meeting  
     
    FOR DECISION
  		•  The treatment of employer pension schemes and other defined benefit pension schemes (61 KB)
  		• Pension schemes (76 KB)
  		• Non-performing loans (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Non-performing loans
    		•  (106 KB)
  		• Financial services (313 KB)
  		• Output of central banks  
  		• Asset boundary for intangible non-produced assets/Other intangible fixed assets (50 KB)
  		• Non-marketproducers' owned assets - Cost of capital services (48 KB)
  		• Use of natural resources by non-residents (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Use of natural resources by non-residents
    		•  (100 KB)
  		• Contracts and leases: Government permits (1,702 KB)
  		• Leases and licences - part 1  
  		• Leases and licences - part 2 (50 KB)
  		• Public - private partnerships (98 KB)
  		• Units (131 KB)
  		• Classification and terminology of non-financial assets (174 KB)
  		• Amortization of non-produced assets (34 KB)
  		• Definition of economic assets (57 KB)
  		• Water as an asset (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Water as an asset
    		•  (89 KB)
  		• Informal sector (59 KB)
      (76 KB)
  		• Super dividend, capital injections and reinvested earnings (government transactions with public corporations)  
  		• Public/private/government sector delineation (83 KB)
  		• Activation of guarantees and constructive obligations (42 KB)
      (164 KB)
  		• Merchanting (53 KB)
      (13 KB)
  		• Retained earnings of mutual funds and other collective investment schemes (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Retained earnings of mutual funds and other collective investment schemes
    		•  (102 KB)
  		• Interest at concessional rates: Debt concessionality (50 KB)
  		• Financial asset classification: Non-monetary gold (e-discussion)
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Non-monetary gold
    		•  (92 KB)
  		• Financial asset classification: Classification and terminology of financial assets and liabilities in the updated SNA  
  		• Financial asset classification: SDRs as liabilities  
  		• Financial corporations classification  
  		• Valuation of equity  
  		• Measurement of non-market output (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Measurement of non-market output
    		•  (86 KB)
  		• Jobs and labor inputs (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Jobs and labor inputs
    		•  (75 KB)
  		• Top-top ISIC structure (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Top-top ISIC structure
    		•  (104 KB)
  		• Illegal and underground economy (e-discussion)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Illegal and underground economy
    		•  (103 KB)
      (13 KB)
     
    FOR INFORMATION
  		•  Interest under high inflation (21 KB)
  		• Treatment of currency unions  
  		• Interest at concessional rates: Debt reorganization (84 KB)
  		• Direct investment  
  		• Financial asset classification: International Reserves (50 KB)
  		• Satellite accounts  
  		• Working time measurement  
  		• The general government and public sectors  
  		• Globalization (50 KB)
  		• Consistency: The process going forward  
  		• Consistency issues  
     
    BACKGROUND PAPERS
    For the list of documents click here.
    For the report of the meeting click here.

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    18-22 July 2005
    The meeting was held at UNESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand to deliberate on the following agenda. The short report containing the conclusions is available in english and spanish.
    The comprehensive report of the meeting is available in PDF format [515 KB].
    (To see the PowerPoint presentation click the PowerPoint icon for the respective agenda item.)
    Agenda items
  		•  Overview of comments on decisions of the second AEG meeting (90 KB)
     
    FOR DECISION
  		•  Cost of capital services (136 KB)
     
  • Views of M. Reinsdorf and M. Cover on Cost of capital services
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  		• Public/private/government sectors delineation (123 KB)
     
  • Comments of L. Salamon on Public/private/government sectors delineation
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  		• Non-performing loans  
  		• Government and other non-market producers: cost of capital of own assets (83 KB)
     
  • Result of Global Consultation on Government and other non-market producers
    		•  (90 KB)
  		• Guarantees (105 KB)
      (161 KB)
  		• Tax revenues, uncollectible taxes and tax credits (257 KB)
     
  • Comments of the UK on Tax revenues, uncollectible taxes and tax credits
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  		• Migrants' transfers (e-discussion issue) (157 KB)
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Migrants' transfers
    		•  (88 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Migrants' transfers
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  		• Residence: Non-permanent workers (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Non-permanent workers
    		•  (85 KB)
  		• Residence: Ships' crew and patients (e-discussion issue) (86 KB)
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Ships' crew and patients
    		•  (137 KB)
  		• Repurchase agreements (e-discussion issue) (137 KB)
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Repurchase agreements
    		•  (88 KB)
  		• Index-linked debt instruments (229 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Index-linked debt instruments
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  		• Debt instruments indexed to a foreign currency (169 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Debt instruments indexed to a foreign currency
    		•   
  		• Fees payable on securities lending (152 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Fees payable on securities lending
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  		• Distinction between loans and deposits (150 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Distinction between loans and deposits
    		•   
  		• Traded loans (155 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Traded loans
    		•   
  		• Classification of financial instruments (152 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Classification of financial instruments
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  		• Research and development/Patented entities (49 KB)
  		• Multiterritory enterprises - basis of allocation (e-consultation issue) (134 KB)
     
  • Report on the e-consultation on Multiterritory enterprises
    		•  (75 KB)
  		• Originals and copies (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Originals and copies
    		•  (77 KB)
  		• Databases (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Databases
    		•  (74 KB)
  		• Land (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Land
    		•  (95 KB)
  		• Goodwill and other non-produced assets (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Goodwill and other non-produced assets
    		•  (79 KB)
  		• Obsolescence and depreciation (79 KB)
     
  • Comments of the UK on Obsolescence and depreciation
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  		• Water as an asset (e-discussion issue)  
     
  • Report on the e-discussion on Water as an asset
    		•  (100 KB)
  		• Retained earnings on mutual funds and other collective investment schemes (147 KB)
  		• Retained earnings on mutual funds and other collective investment schemes (46 KB)
     
  • BOPCOM outcomes on Retained earnings on mutual funds and other collective investment schemes
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  		• Goods sent abroad for processing (67 KB)
     
    FOR INFORMATION
  		•  Measurement of non-market output in volume terms (73 KB)
  		• Employer pension schemes  
  		• Non-resident SPEs linked to general government (68 KB)
  		• Financial services (70 KB)
  		• Super-dividend, capital injections and reinvested earnings (66 KB)
  		• Information on equity (145 KB)
  		• General government and public sectors: Chapter and Annex outline (89 KB)
  		• Merchanting (154 KB)
     
  • Comments of Sweden on Merchanting
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  • BOPCOM outcomes on Merchanting
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    For the list of documents click here.
    For the report of the meeting click here.

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    8-16 December 2004
    The meeting was held at the UN headquarters in New York, USA to deliberate on the following agenda and closed with the following conclusions/recommendations.
    The report of the meeting is available in PDF format [175 KB].
    Agenda items
    Additional reports for information
    Operational guidelines for the AEG
    For the list of documents click here.
    For the conclusions/recommendations of the meeting click here.
    For the report of the meeting click here.

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    16-20 February 2004
    The meeting was held at the IMF headquarters in Washington DC, USA to deliberate on the following agenda and closed with the following conclusions/recommendations.
    Agenda items
    For the document containing all issues for the update of the 1993 SNA with the original issue descriptions click here.
    For the list of documents click here.
    For the conclusions/recommendations of the meeting click here.

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