He suggests, in order to improve the quality of budgetary statistics, that the Commission should compare the Member States' figures submitted to the Commission with the reports of the national central banks to the ECB; in the event of divergent data, the Commission should be able to carry out on-site checks at its own discretion, along the lines of the Financial Auditing Missions provided for in Article IV of the IMF Convention, in co-operation with national institutions such as economic research institutes or national banks.
He suggests, in order to improve the quality of budgetary statistics, that the Commission should compare the Member States' figures submitted to the Commission with the reports of the national central banks to the ECB; in the event of divergent data, the Commission should be able to carry out on-site checks at its own discretion, along the lines of the Financial Auditing Missions provided for in Article IV of the IMF Convention, in co-operation with national institutions such as economic research institutes or national banks.