(c)  While the timeliness of the PEEIs has been continuously improved upon in recent years, quick wins are still possible by better tuning the timeliness of certain indicators to the timetable of European policy-making processes. Moreover, the availability and timeliness of certain indicators is still insufficient. This applies mainly to statistics on services and the labour market.
It also applies to the very valuable integrated euro area accounts, released jointly by Eurostat and the ECB, which  9  See Wynne, M.A. and G.R. Solomon, “Obstacles to measuring output gaps”, Economic Letter – Insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2(3), March, for a discussion of the various challenges implied by the calculation of global production capacity and slack.