Annex 2

Questionnaire on Financial Data[1]

You are asked to respond to the following questions in relation to your own country and submit the data in the Excel format for the first half of the year 2010 by 20 August 2010.

National-level data on sub-national finance execution, comparing:

·         The year 2009 with year 2008 (actual)

·         Year 2009 by half years (actual)

·         Half year 1 10 with half year 1 09;

As much as possible, the datasets should be broken down by main categories of revenues:

a)                            Own taxes and fees (with their main components shown, if possible)

b)                            Major shared revenues (explaining the allocation mechanisms)

c)                            General-purpose transfers from the central government

d)            Earmarked transfers from central government to finance social functions (education, health, social welfare)

e)                            Other earmarked transfers, specific grants

f)                            Funds for capital investments in the local budgets[2]



[1] Precise scope might be adjusted for individual countries based on data availability.

[2] European Commission, other international, central budget, special extra-budgetary, loans, private, asses sales, operational surplus, bonds, preferential loans, domestic and foreign bank credits …