Commission Decision of 6 July 2005 granting derogations to bring Member States' statistical systems into conformity with Regulation (EC) No 501/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quarterly financial accounts for general government (notified under document number C(2005) 1861) (Only the Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovenian and Slovak texts are authentic) (2005/488/EC)

Article 1 U.K.

Derogations are hereby granted to the Member States listed in the Annex, on the conditions and subject to the limits set out therein, in order to enable those Member States to bring their respective national statistical systems into conformity with Regulation (EC) No 501/2004.

Article 2 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic.

Done at Brussels, 6 July 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín Almunia

Member of the Commission