European Parliament
President.
Question No 40 by Jonas Sjöstedt 
Subject: Transfer of profits from Central Bank to State Treasury
On 17 May 2001, the Swedish Parliament decided that the Central Bank should pay an extra SEK 20 billion to the Swedish Treasury this year in addition to its normal payment of SEK 8.2 billion from its profits, which naturally broadened the scope for reorganising the national budget. A similar transfer was made the previous year.
Would this type of transfer from the Central Bank to the Treasury have been possible if Sweden had been taking part fully in the third stage of EMU at that time?
Questions to Commissioner Lamy

