Government; debt guarantees, off-balance PPP, non-performing loans

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This table comprises figures related to debt guarantees provided by the general government sector, adjusted capital value of off-balance sheet public private partnerships (PPP), and non-performing loans. The figures are also available per government subsector, and are taken from end-of-year balance sheets.
The non-performing loans are consolidated which means that loans between units that belong to the same sector are eliminated. As a result, non-performing loans of subsectors do not add up to total non-performing loans of general government. For example, loans of the State provided to local government are part of loans of the State. However, these are not included in the consolidated loans of general government, because it is an asset of a government unit with a government unit as debtor.
Publication of this table meets one of the requirements of Directive EU 2011/85, part of the Enhanced Economic Governance package ("Sixpack") adopted by the European Council in 2011.

Data available from: situation on 31 December 2010.

Status of the figures:
The figures for 2022 are provisional. The figures for the earlier years are final.

Changes as of 20 December 2023:
Provisional figures for 2022 have been published.
The final figures from 2010 to 2021 have been revised. The State's claims arising from export credit insurance were previously incorrectly not included as non-performing loans. These claims arise because the debtors do not fulfill their payment obligations to the insured. Repayments and interest payments can be delayed for a long time. That is why Statistics Netherlands considers these claims as non-performing loans.
Furthermore, the figures for 2020 and 2021 have also been adjusted because a number of loans to the Caribbean parts of the Dutch Kingdom were previously incorrectly not included as non-performing loans.
The figures for 2021 have become final.

When will new figures be published?
New provisional figures for the previous year will be published in October. Previous provisional figures will then become definite. More information on the revision policy of National Accounts can be found under "Relevant articles" under paragraph 3.

Description topics

Value in million euros
Debt guarantees
A debt guarantee is an arrangement in which a guarantor agrees to pay a creditor if a debtor defaults.

This table presents debt guarantees provided by the government. These include:
- Guarantees on interbank loans as a result of the financial crisis.
- Export credit guarantees.
- Guarantee arrangements for specific sectors.
- Guarantees provided to individual institutions.

The data do not include:
- Government guarantees issued within the guarantee mechanism under the Framework Agreement of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
- Guarantees provided for the 'European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism' (ESFM) en the 'European Stability Mechanism' (ESM).
- Derivative-type guarantees, i.e. guarantees that meet the definition of a financial derivative
- Deposit insurance guarantees and comparable schemes
- Government guarantees issued on events whose occurrence is very difficult to cover via commercial insurance (earthquakes, large-scale flooding, nuclear accidents, certain art
exhibitions, etc.).
One-off and standardised guarantees
The sum of one-off and standardised guarantees.
One-off guarantees
A one-off guarantee is defined as individual, and guarantors are not able to make a reliable estimate of the risk of calls.
Public non-financial corporations
Public non-financial corporations are all non-financial corporations, quasi-corporations and non-profit institutions recognised as independent legal entities that are market producers and are subject to control by government units.
Public financial corporations
Public financial corporations are all institutional units whose principal activity is the production of financial services which are subject to control by government units.
Standardised guarantees
Standardised guarantees are guarantees that are issued in large numbers, usually for fairly small amounts, along identical lines. It is not possible to estimate precisely the risk of default for each loan, but it is possible to estimate how many, out of a large number of such loans, will de defaulted on.
Value in % of GDP
Debt guarantees
A debt guarantee is an arrangement in which a guarantor agrees to pay a creditor if a debtor defaults.

This table presents debt guarantees provided by the government. These include:
- Guarantees on interbank loans as a result of the financial crisis.
- Export credit guarantees.
- Guarantee arrangements for specific sectors.
- Guarantees provided to individual institutions.

The data do not include:
- Government guarantees issued within the guarantee mechanism under the Framework Agreement of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
- Guarantees provided for the 'European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism' (ESFM) en the 'European Stability Mechanism' (ESM).
- Derivative-type guarantees, i.e. guarantees that meet the definition of a financial derivative
- Deposit insurance guarantees and comparable schemes
- Government guarantees issued on events whose occurrence is very difficult to cover via commercial insurance (earthquakes, large-scale flooding, nuclear accidents, certain art
exhibitions, etc.).
One-off and standardised guarantees
The sum of one-off and standardised guarantees.
One-off guarantees
A one-off guarantee is defined as individual, and guarantors are not able to make a reliable estimate of the risk of calls.
Public non-financial corporations
Public non-financial corporations are all non-financial corporations, quasi-corporations and non-profit institutions recognised as independent legal entities that are market producers and are subject to control by government units.
Public financial corporations
Public financial corporations are all institutional units whose principal activity is the production of financial services which are subject to control by government units.
Standardised guarantees
Standardised guarantees are guarantees that are issued in large numbers, usually for fairly small amounts, along identical lines. It is not possible to estimate precisely the risk of default for each loan, but it is possible to estimate how many, out of a large number of such loans, will de defaulted on.