Fiscal surveillance in the United Kingdom

Assessments of United Kingdom's convergence programme

As required by the Stability and Growth Pact, each spring the United Kingdom submits a convergence programme which presents an update of the medium-term fiscal strategy.

Based on an assessment by the Commission prepared by DG ECFIN, the Council adopts an opinion on the programme and country-specific recommendations in the scope of the European Semester.

Euro area Member States submit stability programmes while countries outside the euro area submit convergence programmes.

The EU Excessive Deficit Procedure and United Kingdom

• Excessive Deficit Procedure for United Kingdom
• Stability and Growth Pact: the corrective arm (information about the Excessive Deficit Procedure)