The Parliamentary Budget Office, in line with the calendar established with the Memorandum of Understanding between the PBO and the Ministry for the Economy and Finance completed its positive validation of the definitive trend macroeconomic scenario to be published in the Update of the 2015 EFD and notified the Ministry of its findings today. A preliminary version of the forecasts was made available to the PBO on 4 September. On 9 September, the PBO transmitted its comments to the MEF. The definitive version of the forecasts was transmitted by the Ministry on 11 September.