Turning to the household sector, housing investment has been weakening somewhat, but private consumption has been increasing moderately, albeit with fluctuations, against the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation. Exports have been on an increasing trend on the back of the firm growth in overseas economies that I mentioned earlier.
Of course, we were considering both favourable and unfavourable impacts of our future membership in Eurozone. According to all the analysis available the benefits were clearly prevailing. The development of euro implementation strategy in 2003 and later on the creation of the National Plan of Euro Implementation in 2005 followed.