Quarterly panorama of European business statistics

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Industry, trade and services
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Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2003
ISSN 1725-485X
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PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE-FREE PAPER Editorial
This is the fourth issue of the 'Quarterly panorama of European business statistics' that concludes the
first year of its existence. We hope that the publication has proved a useful tool for readers who are
interested in following the latest trends affecting the European business economy.
This first anniversary is also a good opportunity to look back at the changes the publication has been
through, and the major challenges to come. In 2003, one of the most important changes for short-
term business statistics was the move from base year 1995 to base year 2000. This notably led to an
expansion in the number of series that were made available, particularly for service activities and for
candidate countries, where a lack of time-series made it difficult to introduce series in the past.
Next year, the 'Quarterly panorama' will need to continue to adapt quickly. In the year to come, the
main event for the European Union will undoubtedly be the largest enlargement in its history, when
ten new Member States will be welcomed to the EU from southern and eastern Europe on 1 May
2004.
With this in mind, important work has already begun in the field of business statistics, in order to
ensure comparability between the series being published for current and future Member States. For
the 'Quarterly panorama', the enlargement will result in the full integration of short-term data from
the candidate countries. This will clearly involve a re-working and designing of this publication in order
to accommodate series for all 25 countries and the three additional candidate countries. As part of
this on-going process, some data from the candidate countries has already been published and this
issue continues this approach, by providing a focus on the industrial economies of the candidate
countries within chapter 3.
In the meantime, all the team of the 'Quarterly panorama of European business statistics' join me in
wishing you a happy new year!
[ΜΔ Table of contents
Section 1
Latest economic developments in the EU 1
Section2
Latest economic developments within the Triad 19
Section 3
Candidate countries - short-term analysis 27
Section 4
Latest economic developments In the Member States 43
Section 5
Latest economic developments - sectoral analysis 65
Methodological notes 130
The Quarterly Panorama of European Editor-in-chief: Editors:
business statistics has the objective of Mr. Frédéric Donzel, Frédéric Donzel, Jenny Runesson
furnishing readers with an instrument which Eurostat,
will allow them to follow the evolution of Statistical Office of the European Communities, Data processing:
short-term trends. The publication appears Bâtiment Joseph Bech, Digna Amil, Romy Becker-Schneider,
four times during the course of the year. This E2/808, Paolo Cerruti, Edgar Kinzig, Marcel Laveyry,
publication is a project of Eurostat unit D3. L-2721 Luxembourg Carmen Lipp-Lingua, Liselott Oehman,
The opinions expressed in this publication are tel: [phone] Giuseppe Panbianco, Jenny Runesson
those of the individual authors alone and do fax: [phone]
not necessarily reflect the position of the e-mail: [e-mail] All data requests should be addressed to one
European Commission. of the Eurostat Data Shops listed at the end of
Production, desktop publishing: this publication.
INFORMA sari This list is updated on the Internet, at the
Giovanni Albertone, Simon Allen, Annekatrin following address:
Fink, Séverine Gautron, Andrew Redpath, www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat
Markus Voget, Daniel Waterschoot
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All other data extracted on 12-12-2003
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