Article 3

In order to allow timely and effective revenue and expenditure control and the proper monitoring of fiscal developments, Greece should:

1. (a)

   by 15 May 2010, adopt legislation that makes it compulsory to provide public reports on budgetary execution on a monthly basis with a delay of no more than 10 days after the month-end;

2. (b)

   enforce the current legal obligation on social security funds and hospitals to publish annual official accounts and balance sheets;

3. (c)

   further pursue the efforts to improve the collection and processing of general government data, notably by enhancing the control mechanisms of statistical authorities and the General Accounting Office and ensuring effective personal responsibility for cases of misreporting, in order to ensure the prompt supply of high-quality general government data required by Regulations (EC) No 2223/96, (EC) No 264/2000, (EC) No 1221/2002, (EC) No 501/2004, (EC) No 1222/2004, (EC) No 1161/2005, (EC) No 223/2009^f1 and (EC) No 479/2009;

4. (d)

   cooperate with the Commission (Eurostat) so as to promptly agree on an action plan to tackle statistical, institutional and governance deficiencies;

5. (e)

   cooperate with the Commission (Eurostat) and receive the appropriate resident technical assistance on the compilation of fiscal and other macroeconomic statistics.